Since we’ve been here the financial squeeze has become noticeably tighter for Porteños, so you can only imagine what people feel about having the G20 summit crash smack in the middle of Buenos Aires this week with the likes of Trump, Putin, Macron, Merkel and May (and possibly the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia) all…
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We're recently early retired from long and exhausting careers in Brand Design Strategy and TV Producing / Writing. After two long years of being trapped by COVID in our home town of Sydney Australia, we're ready to unfurl our wings and fly off on new adventures that will take us first up to Far North Queensland then the UK and Mexico - revisiting favourite places we haven't been to in over 30 years. Now living in Far North Queensland, Australia.
Ground Hog Day – Superclásico Copa Libertadores #3
Drama central here in BA as the world’s eyes are focused on the Superclásico Copa Libertadores final (well, the eyes of Latin American soccer fans anyway) between bitter arch rivals River Plate and Boca Juniors. The first attempted final was washed out with a flooded stadium, followed the next day by a 2-2 draw at…
Delta de Tigre
Just 35k’s away from the hustle and bustle of downtown Buenos Aires is the world’s third largest river delta system, where vast quantities of muddy brown water flow from some of South America’s greatest rivers, including the Rio Paraná (8thlargest river in the world) and the Rio Uruguay, both fed by countless small tributaries and…
Floralis Genérica
Here’s an image for you: on one of the smartest streets in Recoleta, Avenida Alvear and directly opposite the very swish Vatican Embassy, I saw a young ‘street urchin’ having just emerged shirtless from his slumber in a pile of not-so-nice looking blankets, shaving himself, with cream, using the highly polished brass door handles as…
Aclimatándose
We woke this morning to glorious blue skies and warm ‘buen aire’, made even more heavenly by the glowing green glass windows within the apartment building and the sweet bird song early in the morning. On that, I have to tell you that as lovely as these open-to-the-sky light wells are, noise travels…and with…
City of contrasts – 2
Being Thursday, the day Raquel our cleaner spends all day in the apartment, we headed out and, since we’ve been here in BA, that means taking the packed SUBTE up and across to Palermo. We normally take the D line and get out a Scalabrini Ortiz, walking south into Palermo Viejo and wandering the tree-lined…
City of contrasts
On our drive out to San Antonio de Areco we were somewhat surprised (because we had no idea) to discover a vast illegal favela-like shantytown just blocks from the high-fashion stores and relative luxury of Palermo, Recoleta and Retiro. It’s called Villa 31 and clings to either side of the busy north-west bound autopista with…
San Antonio de Areco
As with all the places we’ve visited in Latin Amercia thus far, we’re fascinated by the indigenous peoples that were here before the Spanish arrived. And in San Antonio de Areco it is particularly interesting, not because of any lasting structures or even any tangible trace of an ancient culture, but because of what came…
Travels With My Ant 