Buenos Aires Travel Guide
Best Parks and Gardens in the World to Spread Your Picnic Blanket
This little guide to the best parks and gardens in the world has been coming for some time. These days I find myself spending a significant amount of time dreaming of spreading a picnic blanket [...]
20 Tips for Staying Safe in Buenos Aires & Other Big Cities
Don’t let the story of the attempted robbery we foiled which we told you about in our last blog post deter you from visiting Buenos Aires — it’s a brilliant city, we’ve spent a lot of [...]
Fear and Larceny in Buenos Aires
The image above is that of the interior of Comisaría 25°, the police station on Avenue Scalabrini Ortíz in Palermo, Buenos Aires, where we recently spent a few hours late one night, or rather, very [...]
A Street Art Stroll Through Buenos Aires with Graffitimundo
Everywhere we stroll in Buenos Aires, and in our neighbourhood of Palermo especially, we see vibrant street art enlivening dull walls and drab building facades. Often dazzling, occasionally bewildering, sometimes the art make us smile, [...]
Shopping List — what things cost in Buenos Aires
Aside from Buenos Aires’ obvious charms – its friendly people, delicious food, brilliant wines, laidback lifestyle, and its cool factor – the affordability of the city is what has also made it so appealing in [...]
Buenos Aires Take-Homes: Delicious Dulce de Leche
I have a confession: I adore dulce de leche, Argentina’s very special version of milk caramel. And this is really saying something, because I’m not the kind of person who obsesses over chocolate or gets [...]