Cafe Tortoni Buenos Aires

Today, I went to Recoleta. It was a quieter day in the city. This is a very nice neighbourhood, although it would be even nicer if more was open. I walked through the cemetery for a while, and then went to the open market, and the Design stores.

In late afternoon, early evening, our group met up at a café notable, Café Tortoni. This café …

We arrived in Buenos Aires with no real agenda other than eating well, drinking well, relaxing and catching up with friends we'd met on our way there. In this respect it was a great success! It was by far the least strenuous time that we've had since we've been away so far, but it was also one of the most enjoyable stops.

Buenos Aires is a …

Strolling through Calle de Florida shopping street and drinking coffee with churros at Café Tortoni (since 1850) at Avenida de Mayo …

Hello again and a Happy Mothers Day to all the lovely Mummys!

I could walk around Guildford town all day and not run in to a single person I know, but put me in Buenos Aires and I'm bumping into everyone! It really is a small world and the travelling world seems a lot smaller. People told us at the beginning that we would bump into the …

After our 20 hour bus ride that ended up being 24 hours, we eventually arrived in Buenos Aires for the second time on our trip. After a couple of weeks of wearing warm clothes it was great to be able to put on some shorts again and go out into the sunshine!

We decided to burn off our built up energy by doing some window shopping with a …

Heading away from the centre and out to the far South West side of the city we spent Sunday morning at Feria De Mataderos. Getting off the bus we were struck by the enormity of the market, streets and streets of stalls selling all sorts of arts and crafts, clothing, speciality foods, household goods, leather products and jewellery, nothing short of …

Day 8 Itinerary

Breakfast at hotel
Full day coach and English speaking guide for cultural visits in Buenos Aires
9:00AM Depart Hotel
Full day city tour to include:
Plaza de Mayo Square; the Government House (seat for the Executive Branch); Congress Palace (seat for the Legislative Branch), situated in front of "Plaza del …

Driving 12 hours from Cordoba with a 5am start we arrive in Buenos Aires early evening to rush hour traffic on the Avenida De Mayo the main thoroughfare into town. Our hotel is located just a stones throw from this wide street but on a much smaller street leading down to Florida and the tourist centre of the city.

Buenos Aires is South …

Entry containing 8 photos titled: House of Congress, Cafe Torino, Av 9 de Julio and Av Mayo, Temp Congress House - an original coffee place., Plaza de Mayo, Obelisk on Av 9 de Julio

Weather: Late twenties - some sun and rain Highlight: Have some time to rest, seeing Breaking Dawn and buying a La Boca top! Day 36 Only having an hour's sleep was not a great idea and getting up was little more than a struggle. I stuffed my things in the rucksack and said goodbye to Rachael and Lucy (they crashed in my room) and got the taxi to …

... 'shoe' or 'nailpolish' when we walked through Recoleta Cemetery and La Boca. By the time we shared a few bottles of Argentina's finest in Cafe Tortoni I think he was glad he was heading up to Iguazu ahead of the girlies. Drank way too much cheap vino ...

... a dinner of porotos (bean stew) with a lone cooked hot dog swimming in the chunky liquid. My first meal in Argentina, shortly after landing in Buenos Aires on Friday afternoon-at a "parrilla"- was a plate of freshly grilled ribs, and more of them than I ...

... a cassette player anymore.  I will have to try to get it converted to a CD.  They met in Café Tortoni, the oldest café in Buenos Aires, where Alejandro was singing Tango.  How romantic!   She does the cooking but he does all of ...

... and execution. (+) The neighbourhoods of the city.  La Boca and San Telmo.  Recoleta Cemetery.  Tango at Cafe Tortoni.  A futbol match.  Really, book your ticket to Argentina now!  Street shopping, colourful ...

... applauded wildly as it was a really good show. Then it was time to head out to the bars and check out some of Buenos Aires's famous nightlife finally getting back to the hostel around 7.30am! And now today I caught a plane up to Iguazu. It took some ...

... all over the monument in front of the Congress - it looked appalling and the Argentinian government should be embarrassed!. Finally, onto Cafe Tortoni, to see a tango show, which was very good (though admittedly fueled by an entire bottle of wine to ...

... This is the same neighbourhood where the football team plays (Boca Jrs) and is probably still one of the poorest neighbourhoods is Buenos Aires.  Interesting thing about the place is all the houses are painted all sorts of random bright colours, the ...

... time in human history. Subsequently I wasn't surprised to learn that a third or Argentina's population - nearly 12 million people - live in greater Buenos Aires. This became smoggilly, traffically and frustratingly apparent as I sat on a choked highway ...

... Uruguay. From Colonia we did a bit of a loop north through Uruguay then over the border into Argentina taking us back to Buenos Aires. We travelled through rolling green pastures and farmland dotted with small houses and through some small towns each ...

... proof that Argentinians have a slightly different day timing than us. The rest of the days we explored the main districts of Buenos Aires, starting with the microcentro where the plaza the mayo is. As it was a thursday we saw the mothers of the ...