Tango in San Telmo
April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments
The feria in San Telmo has an abundance of entertainment. We stopped to listen to this Tango group. Inspired, novio and I started to dance. The tourists seemed to like this and started taking photos of us!
The man with the green hair was really grooving to the beats. We were not sure if he was a rabid fan, or part of the band. As you can see he coloured his hair green to colour co-ordinate with everyone else in the group.
An Italian Palace on the Cheap
April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments
Trolling the internet for BA property, as we like to do, we found this stunning italian-style palace, Palacio Estrugamou, that was recently sold: http://www.leticiafirpo.com/fichaventa.php?codigo=73
Here’s more: http://estrugamou.blog.com/
They were asking for $1.2M in late 2006. I think someone got a screaming bargain…
Queso Azul, Nueces, & Coñac - Blue Cheese, Nuts, & Brandy (or Cognac)
April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments
Here’s another great starter to nibble on while waiting for those guests who have yet to arrive or the meat to be served. This deeply rich and flavorful spread is absolutely fantastic with thin slices of crusty bread; toasted or not. Blue cheese, nuts, and brandy. That’s it.
Now before I go further I feel that it is my duty to upset a few cognac or brandy aficionados. Here in Argentina, probably the most popular brandy or cognac is Reserva San Juan - Coñac V.S.O.P.
So France has rules about what can be officially named as cognac while all the rest is brandy. Has to be made this way or that. Can only come from here or there. Whatever, I don’t know the rules and therefore I’m not going to act like I do. All I know is that Reserva San Juan’s bottle description says that they claim to follow traditional […]
Alberto Olmedo, in the bronze
April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments
The city’s got a new monument. Since yesterday, a life-sized bronze statue of the master comedian Alberto “El Negro” Olmedo sits on a bronze bench at the corner of Pueyrredón St. and Rivadavia Ave., in his neighbourhood of birth, Pichincha.
Pichincha is located just north and a bit west of the city center, starting by the old railway and port facilities near the Rosario Norte train station. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was a den of prostitution, mafia gangs, police corruption and disease, at a time when Rosario was called “the Argentine Chicago”; a natural consequence of the unchecked growth of a port city overflowing with poor immigrants and uneducated workers moving in from the countryside. Then the port traffic diminished, the country’s economy was repeatedly sunk in the successive crises we all know about, and finally the train system was mostly shut down and practically abandoned.
Pichincha has […]
My First Weekend at a Hospital
April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments
I spent this past weekend in the hospital. It was my first time ever at a Hospital. I mean I have visited but I have never been visited at one before.
Last Thursday I woke up feeling just like I do when I have a fever except that I did not have a fever. I also felt a little bloated. I had an important meeting that morning so I sucked it up and went to my meeting. Afterwards I headed back to the office, put in a couple of hours before I threw in the towel.
I got home around lunch time, decided to skip lunch because my stomach just didn’t feel 100%. I crawled into bed and fell into the fever that finally arrived. It was slight but I rode it out until 7pm. I took a couple of Advil. I then ventured to have just a little bit of dinner. […]
Madres de Plaza de Mayo: Early Days
April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments
As I mentioned yesterday, 30 April marks the 30th year of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Until seeing Clarín this morning I didn’t realize that one of the Madres’ groups - Línea Fundadora - had its celebration on Sunday. (Political differences have fragmented the Madres). This afternoon at 3 will begin a long concert in the Plaza to celebrate the Madres led by Hebe de Bonafini.
I just noticed on the official Madres Web site a scrolling banner about today’s gathering that says “Un sueño: el Socialismo” and that Cuban cultural minister Abel Prieto will be one of today’s participants. …..I’m going to refrain from an editorial but make of that what you will.
Anyway, let’s go back to the early days of the Madres, thirty years ago, before the Madres fragmented into different organizations. I want to quote from the book Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of […]
The Temptress
April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments
We set-off on Sunday to take the fast-ferry, that runs hourly, from Buenos Aires to Colonia, Uruguay. But we were late getting over there and the seats were sold-out on the next two boats… So, we strolled along the banks of Puerto Madera, then we just kept strolling all the way to the antique market in San Telmo… a place that continues to seduce us…
San Telmo is like an older, yet attractive, forbidden seductress… We at first baulked at her overtures. “It’s too dangerous there”, we thought. But over time we’ve found that the architecture, those beautiful buildings, the authenticity of (most of) it… it’s the ‘real Buenos Aires’ as one reader recently put it… is indeed desirable. And it’s still very cheap.
We’ll get you some pictures and a more thorough report on the place soon…
The Golden Egg and Killing The Goose Thereof
April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments
In an article fabulously titled “Pagan hasta US$ 1.000 por semana por alquilar en Capital” (if only they’d used an exclamation point!), Clarín points out one of the unpleasant truths of the recent tourist boom. Namely, that attracted by the possibility of quick money, many Buenos Aires apartment owners are switching their rental units to the tourist trade and raising the tourist prices high
Atlas Ambiental de Buenos Aires
April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments
Three years of work headed by CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) has produced one of the coolest interactive web maps we’ve seen in a while, the Atlas Ambiental de Buenos Aires. Apparently it includes everything there is to know about the city and province. As the Saturday Clarín article noting its arrival cataloged:
Así, en una misma página de Internet se puede
Wicked Buenos Aires
April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments
Births should be noted (as we did with Henry Emiliano
“Quique” Mount), so let us take a moment to praise Wicked!? Buenos Aires, a bilingual arts and under culture rag conceived and produced by Javier Gover and an ample crew and containing among other things a Q&A with multimedia nutter (meant in nicest possible way) Fernando Peña, a nightlife agenda by WhatsUpBuenosAires, and a quick interview
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