Casa Palermitano

... in the least surprised - to them, the surprise was that I actually showed up!!  I am in another lovely place called Casa Palermitano - it is an old style BA house with lots of character and really high ceilings - very convenient for where the action ...

... Galiazzi, and loved the courtyard at Ninos Hotel, as well as the Foundation that the Ninos Hotel supports.   8-9) Tie between Casa Palermitano in Buenos Aires and Rupa Wasi Lodge in Aguas Calientes. The owner of Casa P was wonderful and super ...

... the building will be undergoing repairs, so they cancelled our reservation.  We scrambled around to find an alternative and have made new reservations at a highly-rated B&B, Casa Palermitano, for all but our first night. So we're getting ...

And you thought Portland was rainy! The room we are staying in here at Casa Palermitano has exceptionally high ceilings, why I think the doors to our room are well over 10 feet. The are beautiful old wooden doors that are double and quite skinny in ...

    12th to 15th Feb ...  Mendoza I spent my last hours with Lorena and Andrea at Casa Palermitano (my second home) in BA   - did some washing (badly needed), burned photos onto CD, freshened up and said my goodbyes.  ...

We returned to Buenos Aires for the final of the polo having collected Lauren who took a bus from Santiago for a happy mother and daughter reunion. The game was the first maximum handicap in the history of the competition with all eight players holding a ...

We went looking for street Tango. I had thought that there was plenty of Tango available to watch and so we went to view in San Telmo, just a short walk from the centre of the city. It turned out that it was a 10 block street market that sold every kind ...

Hurrah! We have arrived in Buenos Aires. We have both been looking forward to coming to this great city that we hope our great expectation will not lead to inevitable disappointment. But as we glided into the port on the ferry we were bathed in the ...

So my first blog... As this is our first major travel adventure we seem to have spent most of our time theorising about what will go wrong... I guess we are going to make plenty of mistakes.  So I have decided that the theme of the blog ...

We made it about 4 pm this afternoon. Its quite warm and very busy (read: hectic). But we have a fun little b&b in the up and coming area of Palermo distirct. We took a small walk this afternoon for beer and a snack. Then crashed (heavily) until ...

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For the past two days we have had clear sunny skies and great days of touring.  Friday, since the weather had cleared up we completed the walking tour we had set out to do the previous day.  The tour took us around historic areas of BA, through ...

Buenos Aires has been a breath of fresh air with the feel of Madrid, the architecture of Paris and the buzz of New York.  Since Santiago is surrounded by hills it traps the pollution and we rarely saw pure blue sky.  We spent our first two days ...

OK, the post will be short since not too much has happened since yesterday. By the way - I canīt upload pics on this computer either so it will have to be Lima before you can see pics of the glaciers! Just to catch everyone up, we made it back to Buenos ...

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18th Jan 08 Today, Friday, I decided to have a cultural day - visiting museums and art galleries - a bit of a culture vulture on the quiet!! However, just to show that I have some balance in my day, I started off at the Botanical Gardens or should ...