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People

Posted by on May 14, 2013

People

It was the people and not the place that made my stay in Buenos Aires a great experience. I stayed with five couchsurfing hosts during my time in Buenos Aires. Firstly, I landed in Recoleta with Blas Chiaretta and his Swedish flatmate. It was a high energy environment but I couldn’t participate because I...

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Bureaucracy: Buens Aires – Bloody Awful

Posted by on May 13, 2013

Bureaucracy: Buens Aires – Bloody Awful

Reading about other peoples’ woes can be strangely satisfying, so read on… Buenos Aires suffers under a cloud of its own bureaucracy and it played an unpleasingly large role in my stay. It was the dog-shit on my shoe. Thousands are employed to stuff each other around long enough to be deemed full time...

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Family Cony presents: Verdadero Asado Argentino

Posted by on May 10, 2013

Family Cony presents: Verdadero Asado Argentino

Argentina is a carnivorous country. With lots of land, a comparatively small population concentrated in Buenos Aires and other regional centres, there are vast tracts of sparsely populated land in the interior for cattle farming and the meat culture is very strong. Argentinean beef is of high quality and it would rival Australia for...

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San Telmo

Posted by on May 6, 2013

San Telmo

My favourite part of Buenos Aires. Old cobbled streets lined with trees and lamp posts overlooked by Parisian style buildings. This is the old Buenos Aires and has largely maintained its historic charm. Here there are less of the awful concrete soul traps that rise above the old skyline. Some of the streets even...

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Getting Around in Buenos Aires

Posted by on May 6, 2013

Getting Around in Buenos Aires

Walking through the streets of Buenos Aires I was initially very much lost until I started realise that it was constructed in one massive grid – like many cities – with larger arterials running east-west and north south. Libertador, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Mayo/Rivadavia, Independencia, San Juan arranged east-west named from north to south and...

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Congreso, Abasto and Once

Posted by on May 5, 2013

Congreso, Abasto and Once

Head west from the Plaza de Mayo crossing Avenida 9 de Julio and continue until the road swerves to the right, opens out into a plaza and becomes Avenida Rivadavia. These are the plazas Moreno and Congreso and in front of the latter sits the congress building; a large, imposing and dirty building with...

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