Guesthouse Buenos Aires

... in the way I travel from Asia to Europe. Some examples: - I stay in backpacker dorms instead of midrange private guesthouse rooms with en-suite, and I pay double the price - The backpack has gone, bag on wheels much better - ...

... April I took time out from being a tourist to go to an ANZAC Day service at the Australian Embassy in Buenos Aires. The commemorative service was jointly run by the Aujstralian and New Zealand Embassies. Invited guests included ambassadors ...

... and all about the body, kind of like LA, and made me so glad I got a mani-pedi before heading there.  Landing in Buenos Aires felt like coming home, only speaking Spanish. It oculd{ve been Springfield, it could{ve been Jersey. Yesterday with our bike ...

Manhã de domingo, Gardel no fone de ouvido, chuva inclemente: estou indo embora de Buenos Aires. Daqui para Bariloche e de lá para os Lagos Andinos e Santiago do Chile, assuntos para outro blog ("Breve aqui!", como dizem os anúncios imobiliários). Amo ...

We arrived pretty late in Buenos Aires, so we just decided to walk around the city and Paz, the guesthouse owner, actually accompanied us to downtown Buenos Aires so we could take pictures of the city at night. I'll miss this ...

Brief stop in Buenos Aires - Friday 29th December - Sunday 31st December 2006 Arrived in style, courtesy of BA, upgraded us all to Club! Not bad for a World Trip! Cool accommodation at Che Lulu Trendy Hotel in the bohemian district of Palermo! We ...

... Santa. Tierra Santa is the world's first religious theme park and we'd heard that it was quite kitsch. It calls itself Jerusalem in Buenos Aires. The main attraction of the park is the 18m Jesus that rises from the mountain every hour to the sounds of ...

... the snobby-ness of the French and the ignorance of Americans."  As is made clear by the aforementioned quote, Buenos Aires has a significant European influence, prodominantly Italian, and appears as though it would belong in any European ...

... void of traffic and people and arrived at our hostel in no time at all. Figuring that maybe as the Argentinean's in Buenos Aires are renowned for partying hard, they must all start their day later than by normal London standards so we thought little more ...

We arrived in Buenos Aires (henceforth to be referred to as "BA") on Monday morning after a 9.5 hour bus trip from Cordoba. The overnight trip wasn't too bad. The seats were better than the other trip, but the food was quite disappointing. A little cookie ...

... The next morning I was so sleepy I missed breakfast. Then I got a surprise because we had already arrived at the airport in buenos aires, I even slept through the landing.  Then we caught a taxi to our guesthouse, the taxi driver went really fast and I ...

Buenos Aires - our 6th capital city. Looks and feels like Paris with the narrow streets, 19th Century town houses with shuttered windows and balconies. But the people here (know as Portenos) are friendlier. The city is not what we expected at all. The ...

... ;I´m looking forward to exploring  the Argentinian and Chilean wine industry with due diligence over the coming weeks. Arrival Buenos Aires around 5.30pm realising it is still today Sunday 13 April courtesy travelling east across the ...

... ( like Alcatraz) where it is said that four previous Argentine presidents served time. Palermo is a very affluent part of Buenos Aires where parks & museums can be found in abundance, one of which is the Evita museum. Also ...

... a cafe opened for breakfast. While I´m away,  here are some jottings of things I have noticed in my first week in Buenos Aires. 1. There is no such thing as grabbing a quick coffee in a polysterene cup on your way to work.  If you ...

... de mobilização e resistência. As grandes manifestações de massas de dezembro, janeiro e fevereiro já ficaram para trás. Buenos Aires parece querer retomar uma normalidade impossível, pois o terremoto econômico devastou empregos, poupanças, ...

... can’t hold us back.   After I had collected my passport the next day we used our second unexpected day in Buenos Aires to be very efficient.  We bought the camping stuff that we were originally going to buy when we arrived in Mendoza ...

... piss and dog shit all the time. We are staying in Palermo (great recommendation Wendy!) which is much like the Bath of Buenos Aires. We have also visted some really good markets in San Telmo and today visited the most elaborate cemetry that you could ...

... .  They kep our luggage in Buenos Aies for 12 days for no reason at all and to top it off on the way back to Buenos Aires they cancelled the flight without putting us on another one.  Is it because I have a british passport.  Never mind we ...