Conte Hotel Buenos Aires
Carlos Pellegrini 101 Buenos Aires, Capital Federal District, 1009, Argentina
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Touch down in Buenos Aires
Well we arrived in Buenos Aires at 11am on 9 Jan after a splendid day with Captain Dick (yes that is his name - he is a pilot) and Gem in Sydney, cruising the harbour. The flight was pretty smooth running and only 13 hours. In typical style we we got no sleep until 30 mins before landing. However, I am pleased to say that we did not have one single …
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Beunos Aires - The perfect city
... to have a photo with a tango huss, he hasn't stopped smiling since.
On our last night we went to a Tango night. This included a tango lesson (which we obtained a graduate certificate in the 1-2-step in), a fairly decent meal and a relatively unimpressive tango show. The tango girls all looked like drag queens and the spectacle was made even more interesting when some old grandpa tourist accidently trod on the tablecoth of a table upstairs and caused the ...
Christmas, Italian Style...
After a late night last night, we got a correspondingly late start this morning, but we had company as all of Buenos Aires wakes up with a Christmas Eve 'hangover'. When we came in at 1:00 am many people were just getting started!
After our now very familiar breakfast of croissants (media lunas in Spanish) and coffee we decided we needed to find a tree to sit under and read/relax so that was our mission. We started our daily travels on the A train which is the oldest subway ...
La Belle Buenos aires
... selon notre connaisseur… , le Palacio Paz : le palais d’une famille plus que riche...
Recoleta : un quartier aussi très riche.
Il y a un cimetière très connu où sont enterrés, dans de grands monuments, les anciens présidents, les héros militaires, personnalités de l’Argentine. Le Musée National des beaux Arts (gratuit) et de beaux parcs. Floralis Genérica, une fleur gigantesque en métal.
Palermo : un ...
Another overdue post
... passed to a person who drinks the whole cup. Then the mate returns to the person who is serving, and that person refills the mate with water from the thermos. The result is that a communal drinking event ensues which can last for a couple of hours. Fantastic way to make conversation (and new friends).
I bought a mate at the local supermarket, which has wood inside of it. Traditional mates usually are made out of a gourd/squash ("calabaza" ...
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