Buenos Aires – Two Brits Abroad

Being vegetarian in Argentina

December 9, 2014 Sarah Comments 0 Comment

I may have been able to seek out more vegetarian options in Argentina, if James hadn’t been on an ongoing mission to find the best steak in the world. Luckily, because of the Italian influence on Argentinian cuisine, pretty much every restaurant in Argentina (including the steak houses) do serve meat-free pasta dishes. However, generally these options are either pasta with a nice (but not especially inspiring) tomato sauce or pasta with a good (but again not particularly varied) cheese…

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Where we stayed – Argentina

November 6, 2014 Sarah Comments 0 Comment

Mendoza: We very much enjoyed Mendoza and stayed there three times while in Argentina – each time renting out a room at Federico’s house, who we found through Air BnB.We had a lovely stay at Federico’s house. He was very welcoming and generous. He cooked a traditional Argentine barbecue for us and went out of his way to make us feel comfortable and show us his city. Trying out Fernet – an Argentine favourite – with our host Fede The house is well…

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A day trip to Tigre

September 3, 2014 Sarah Comments 0 Comment

Pretty walkway in Tres Bocas An hour’s train ride north out of Buenos Aires and you find yourself in a completely different world. Wooden walkway The town of Tigre and the surrounding Parana Delta is a popular getaway for Porteños (people from Buenos Aires) and tourists alike. Waterway, Tres Bocas The area is a web of inter-connecting waterways that take you to small islands lined with wooden walkways that pass pretty houses and guest houses on stilts, restaurants, rowing clubs and even boat…

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Finding Evita in Buenos Aires

August 26, 2014 Sarah Comments 0 Comment

Painting of Juan and Eva Peron in La Casa Rosada La Casa Rosada Anyone who has watched Evita will remember seeing Eva and Juan Peron making impassioned speeches from the balcony of the ‘pink house’ or Casa Rosada – the presidential offices – to thousands of adoring supporters in the Plaza de Mayo. Casa Rosada by night Interested in political history (and having not long re-watched Evita, before our trip began!), I was pleased to learn that there were free tours…

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Photographing Palermo

August 21, 2014 Sarah Comments 0 Comment

On one of our afternoons in Buenos Aires we went on a Foto Ruta Iphoneography workshop and tour to help us to better use our iPhones for taking street photos. The workshop and tour took us around the Palermo area of Buenos Aires – a leafy middle class area filled with restaurants, bars, parks, museums and night clubs. Leafy … We’d not explored the area much during the day and so this was a good opportunity for us to get…

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Fuerza Bruta – Brute Force

August 20, 2014 Sarah Comments 0 Comment

On our first night in Buenos Aires, we headed to see the Fuerza Bruta show. I’d first heard of this from some fellow travellers in Sucre, who had managed to describe it as a bit like Cirque de Soleil, but crazier. They said they’d seen it on tour in London, but that its home was Buenos Aires and urged us to go, while we were there. We heard about it again as we got closer to BA, but other than…

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Starting our week in Buenos Aires

August 17, 2014 Sarah Comments 0 Comment

Argentine National Congress Buenos Aires was fun and interesting city to while away a week. There was so much to see and do there, we could have stayed much longer. Arrival Our arrival into the city felt almost like going home … it was raining! A LOT. The city is also very European looking and apart from the big light up image of Evita on one of the buildings on “the widest avenue in the world”, Avenida 9 de Julio*,…

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