Sadly, it’s time to say adios to Buenos Aires. We’ve had two glorious fulfilling months here, a longed-for dream, now incredibly realised. We will be back though, sooner than later actually. After our time in the UK our adventures continue in Chilean Patagonia – yes, that’s yet to come folks. Then we’re back in BA…

Further to my last post regarding the Copa Libertadores final between Boca and River, it’s now been cancelled for good, with no date set. A very sad and disappointing end to our stay in this wonderful, but increasingly troubled city. Boca are now calling for nothing less than disqualification, with the governing body hinting at…

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…

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…

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…

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…

  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…

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…

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…