After a big slab of charcoal grilled bife (beef), our favourite thing to eat in Buenos Aires is empanadas. Although not in that order! In fact, many traditional parrillas or steakhouses offer a complimentary empanada to kick off a meal and whet your appetite while you’re browsing the menu and sipping a glass of Malbec. … Read more
We arrived in Buenos Aires on a glorious spring Sunday. While the sky was a perfectly clear cobalt blue and the sun was well and truly out, there was still a wintery crispness to the air in the shade and a clarity to the light that said winter hadn’t gone yet. We decided to make … Read more
We’ve heard a lot of live music during our two week stay in Rio de Janeiro – at bars, clubs, by the beach, and in the streets of this hip-swinging Brazilian city. It’s hard not to hear music in a city where nearly every cultural activity has a soundtrack! And that soundtrack typically comprises Brazilian … Read more
Going to Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is a must-do experience (see this site for Carnival dates and details), yet you can get a taste of Carnival or at least a carnivalesque atmosphere somewhere in Rio just about any day of the year. It’s simply a matter of finding the party – or serendipitously running into one, as … Read more
One of the delights of going out and drinking and eating in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is hitting the botecos or botequims – traditional, unpretentious neighbourhood bars. After a couple of weeks in the city we developed some favourites that we’d return to in a heartbeat. These are the botecos and botequims we think are Rio’s best neighbourhood … Read more