Turning 30 South American Style

With the dreaded 30th birthday looming, I ran away to South America to celebrate the landmark birthday in style.

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Ciao Buenos Aires

ARGENTINA | Saturday, 12 Jan 2008 | Views [209]

Some things in life are just too bizzare to casually ignore. They must be investigated, savoured and enjoyed. I believe that the acclaimed Buenos Aires theme park Teirra Santa (The Holy Land) is such a place. A bit like like Disney land but with people ... Read more >

Tags: argentina, buenos aires, tierra santa, holiday, latin america, south america


New Year´s Eve

ARGENTINA | Saturday, 5 Jan 2008 | Views [203]

Part of the plan for staying in Buenos Aires until January was to see in the New Year is style in a city that allegedly never sleeps. Only problem is, this is probably the only major city in the whole world where is it traditional to toast the midnight ... Read more >

Tags: party time, buenos aires, argnetina, new years eve, new year, south amrica, latin america, puerto madero, night club, disco


Feliz Navidad Buenos Aires

ARGENTINA | Saturday, 29 Dec 2007 | Views [314]

Christmas in Buenos Aires is a white knuckle ride of a celebration requiring stamina, determination, commitment and nerves of steel. This is cheifly because the parties start late and end with everyone throwing cheap chinese fireworks around the ... Read more >

Tags: argentina, christmas, buenos aires, san telmo, champagne, bars, restaurants, puerto madero, south america, latin america


Sunny San Telmo

ARGENTINA | Thursday, 6 Dec 2007 | Views [390]

OK, OK, so I know I shouldn´t rub it in, but it is three weeks to Christmas and Steve and I are wandering the steamy tango inspired streets of San Telmo in flip flops and t'shirts. Yeah, I love this country. We have come down in the world slightly ... Read more >

Tags: markets, argentina, buenos aires, san telmo, south america, latin america, tango, soanish lessons.


Sleepy Birthday

ARGENTINA | Thursday, 29 Nov 2007 | Views [685]

From the sublime to the ridiculous, my 30th birthday was nothing at all like I planned it, started great, turned a bit shaky and recovered well at the final post, rising like the great Buenos Aires obelisque from the ashes of a burnt out birthday wreck.... Read more >

Tags: party time, argentina, buenos aires, birthday, retiro bus station, san antonio de arecco, gauchos, camp fires, parilla, cafe tortoni


Getting the hang of Buenos Aires now

ARGENTINA | Friday, 23 Nov 2007 | Views [157]

Think we are finally getting the hang of this city now, even the mums have been hurrying along in the metro, shooing the elderly and infirm out of their way as they rush to the next souvenir store. In two short weeks, we have scraped the surface of ... Read more >

Tags: family, argentina, buenos aires, palermo, la boca, san telmo, downtown, diego maradonna, tigre, colonia


We're here in Buenos Aires

ARGENTINA | Saturday, 17 Nov 2007 | Views [209]

Love this place, don't know why but I just do. It is a bit dirty, a bit smelly, full of cars and battered old busses, down at heel, noisey and busy. There are 12 lanes of traffic running through the city centre which take four separate pedestrian crossings ... Read more >

Tags: people, argentina, buenos aires, airport, casada rosada, eva peron, recoleta, metro, steak, red wine.



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