Calle Florida Buenos Aires

After a day getting settled into our wonderful little hotel in the San Telmo District of Buenos Aires and strolling the pedestrian only shopping street Calle Florida, Anne and Kurt arranged for dinner at a small local eatery. The Cafe San Juan is owned by a newly-famous chef and his ex-wife. He opened his first restaurant recently, making simple …

Am Flughafen angekommen, machten wir uns erst mal auf die Suche nach einem Bankomaten. Dieser befindet sich im Terminal A. Da wir schon um kurz nach 6 Uhr in der Früh angekommen sind, haben wir uns dazu entschieden, mit dem Bus in die Stadt zu fahren, da wir erst um 14 Uhr im Hostel einchecken konnten. Der öffentliche Bus (Linie 8) braucht nämlich …

Buenos Aires: Home of the Tango and the Parrilla. I clearly didn’t have enough time here and with so much to see and do coupled with a favorable exchange rate, it is a place I will be returning to for sure. One thing for sure is that when I will come back it will be in summer. It gets COLD in Buenos Aires. Maybe it is Miami spoiling me, but I …

Argentina has a lot of it's own idiosyncrasies that one would never know about unless they spent an extended amount of time here. Clearly, life here is very different than in the States. Sometimes I forget that I am living in a third-world country. Buenos Aires does not really feel like a poverty-starved place, although that might be because I am …

... in the world, well maybe South America, well maybe Argentina - but it's certainly wide!) and wandered down to the Calle Florida, a lovely pedestrian street full of vendors selling leather goods and others. There we saw some busking tango dancers, Rachel ...

... Spain. The tower is open to the public and provides a good view of the city and the river. Calle Florida, the main pedestrian thoroughfare of Buenos Aires, is teeming with stores. The busiest section, extending south from Plaza San Martín to Avenida ...

... une fois le voyage fait et trois vertebres déplacées. Ballade de la station de bus a l'hostal en passant par la calle Florida - rue tres commercante de BA. Achat de repellant et de creme solaire. De retour maintenant a l'hostal nous retrouvons une ...

... these gardens we decided it was time to leave the outdoors (the weather had not improved) and do some shopping. We headed to Calle Florida, one of the main shopping areas here, in order to browse all the leather goods we had heard so much about. ...

... wish I could shop in. The center of the city is where all the nice buildings are, as well as this nuts-o pedestrian street called Calle Florida which is full of stores and a million people that I loved and hated at the same time. Then there is an area ...

... probably catch it somewhere. I set out on foot to explore the city a bit this afternoon. I walked up to Calle Florida, which is a long, famous pedestrian shopping street crowded with people, stores, restaurants, street vendors and performers, ...

... stop. By the time I reached my stop, I felt like I'd been on a roller-coaster ride. The city tour started off from Calle Florida, past the Plaza San Martin, and headed north to the ritzier parts of Buenos Aires. Beginning at the United Nations Park, we ...

... Shop" style, and didn't like the service much. Went across the street to an "AGFA Image Center" camera/photo store (on Calle Florida, near Corrientes), and got amazing service. The guy behind the counter spoke to me in Spanish (he spoke a little slower, ...

... we are all copying our photos for him and hoping that that will help a little.   The next day - Jim and I headed back to Calle Florida for a little more shopping.  I had my eye on a "Man Bag" that I wanted to buy for Jim as his birthday will ...

... his Fox Business Shows on the Slingbox.  Bruce and Candy took off on their own and tackled the leather shops in and around Calle Florida.    The haircut for me was fine - then I did a little running around - before heading back to the ...