Rio Hotel Laura Tigre

... on Sundays that in the evening turns into a free for all with lots of bands playing, tango in the street, and general people watching opportunities. Chatting and going for a beer with some of the guys who sell their art in the market.

Being invited to the birthday party of an Argentinian. We went to his parents´ house in a beautiful suburb outside the city called La Lucila and joined 21 people for a ...

... hours, so I moved to an empty spot near them. Good move....they also turned out to be my good luck charm. I cashed out and headed to bed after going up 150 pesos and getting invited join my new friends for a biking wine tour the next day!

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... La Baita. Comme Leila et Olivier s'envolent le lundi matin pour les chutes d'eau d'Iguaçu nous nous retrouvons encore le dimanche soir pour manger un bon gros steak au restaurant la Cabrera, un incontournable de Buenos Aires. Les jours suivants je me balade encore en ville, je vais visiter le jardin japonais, je passe au théâtre Colon qui est malheureusement fermé pour cause de rénovations, je m'aventure à l'entrée de l'imposant palais de justice et à la place du Congrès où se ...

... tracks, and of course I got stuck waiting a while for it to pass, and got dirt blown up in my face as I waited. I started walking along the train tracks, hoping to find another ATM, but with no luck. By this point, I had wandered quite aways from the restaurant, and decided to look for another place to eat. Had I known that finding an ATM was going to be such a fiasco, I would've just put my meal on credit card and paid ...

... We watched a gaucho (Argentine cowboy) game called Race of the Ring. A 1" ring is hung from a wire strung between two poles that are 15 feet apart. The gaucho holds a metal pin (about the size of a screwdriver) in his mouth and he whips the horse to start running. They sprint extremely fast down the street lined with people on both sides. As the gaucho gets closer to the ring, he takes the pin out of his mouth and aims it at the ring hanging from ...

... our necks, looking straight up, but it also put is in a great position to be photographed by press here. It also didn't hurt that my friend group on Tuesday ended up looking like a diversity-acceptance poster, with a blonde whitey (guess who that is), an African American, an Asian, an Indian, and a Jew. Not bad eh? Anyway, the election itself was pretty intense. There were enormous cheers every time CNN announced Barack had won a state. I'd ...

... in their ballrooms in order to achieve a successful hotel. They met resistance almost right away. In 2006, three years later there was another 7 attempts to shut down this employee run operation. There was huge protests in the streets and violence did occur from a very dangerous police force. One of the most touching moments of the meeting was when Maria explained through tears, her leaving her daughter at the hospital, who was ...

... vegetated islands separated by rivers and streams and lined by traditional houses on stilts- a very welcome break from the hustle and bustle of Bs As. Afterwards we headed to Puerto de Frutos an extensive arts and crafts market, dotted with restaurants and food stalls, where we had lunch and shopped before heading back. Got back just in time before the heavens opened.

... of situations. I just want to rip these ****er`s heads off and throw them against a wall, line up all the heads against the wall and yell at them through a megaphone.......14 WON`T WIN AGAINST A 20 DUMB ****S!!!!!!!!! Ok, sorry, I`m done. Ok, I will be back at 3:30, if these *******s are as bad at poker as they are at bj I will completely clean up. Come back at 4:30 but poker is just poker against the dealer, not real poker, ****. I`m so ...

... itself is right on the Parana river and does not have roads, you must own a boat to get around. Also, there are no stores or banks, they come to you. There is a banking boat, a grocery boat, a church boat, and of course the bus boat to get you back to the mainland. The boat ride up the river is very peaceful and beautiful, and the boats themselves are very quaint.