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| Mi querida Buenos Aires... Posted
by Jeannette Mortelmans |
| Buzzing and vibrant city Buenos Aires Posted
by Alex Wolfson |
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| :: Mi querida Buenos Aires.... |
Imagine...
the best steaks and grilled meat you have ever tasted...
the best coffee...the most amazing red wine...
the most delicious fruit smoothies...
Imagine walking through a city with the wrought iron balconies
and the architecture of Paris, slightly pealing at the edges but
which transports you back to another time...with the smell of wood
burning grills and coffee...the sound of tango...
Imagine the most friendly and generous people you could ever wish
to meet...
Imagine being surrounded by very attractive men who catch your
eye and call you beautiful...every day!
What is there not to love about Buenos Aires...if it wasn't so
far away I would live there. |
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| 19 December 2007 14:01 |
Posted by Jeannette
Mortelmans |
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| :: Buzzing and vibrant
city Buenos Aires |
The Paris of the Southern Hemisphere! Where do I
start? The wall of sound generated by the passion of the “hinchas”
at Boca Juniors’ temple to the beautiful game “La Bombonera”
who sing as one to the sound of an intimidating drumbeat as any
one of a string of their stars (Maradona, Riquelme, Tevez…)
dances past a hapless opposition fullback? The melancholy sound
of a Carlos Gardel tune on an accordion played by a grey-haired
porteño, who probably knew Gardel, as an elegantly suited
man and his devastatingly sexy dance partner in fishnets and a black
dress move gracefully to express the emotion and sensuality of the
tango either on the street or in a San Telmo tango club? A trip
to the maze of waterways of the Parana delta near El Tigre, where
you can indulge in the carnivore’s dream of a tenderly cooked
and tended asado done over an open fire? The energy of the boliches,
where young porteños dance the night away to modern cumbias
after going out at 2am? The stylish archicture, modeled on Europe
and yet so different; the casa rosada and palacio de gobierno in
the centre of town and in the vaults as big as houses at the Recoleta
cemetery? The newly remodeled Puerto Madero – Buenos Aires’
docklands? The high quality bargain fashion items in Florida street?
Al this is quintessentially Buenos Aires, but as a regular visitor
to this buzzing and vibrant city I have to say it is the passionate,
warm, beautiful and humorous people of Buenos Aires who have brought
me back there on several occasions. Even if they won’t ever
stop mentioning THAT goal in Mexico…
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| 17 December 2007 15:44 |
Posted by Alex Wolfson |
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Argentina's vibrant and cosmopolitan capital city lies on the estuary of the Río de la Plata, across the water from Uruguay. Home to some 13 million people, Buenos Aires is decidedly more European than South American in flavour.
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