Tag: Buenos Aires

  • BEFORE YOU GO TIPS | Booking the trip

    BEFORE YOU GO TIPS | Booking the trip

    Before booking an international trip, there’s some research you can do to lay the foundation for success. This is a comprehensive list—I’m covering all bases. Take what you need from it.

  • EXCEPTIONAL EATERIES | Buenos Aires |Desnivel

    EXCEPTIONAL EATERIES | Buenos Aires |Desnivel

    In Buenos Aires, you must eat meat.  There’s beef for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and it’s the best beef you’ll ever have.  At Desnivel, you get the full monty. A word about Argentine beef, and why it’s so good: For starters, the cows spend their lives, happily roaming, and eating, among the Pampas grasses.  (I’m…

  • People of the World

    People of the World

    This is Bob Beveridge, in his secondhand violin / collectible shop in Falkland, Scotland. He is playing the prized guitar that was given to him by Roseanne Cash, when she and her famous father traced their roots back to this small village in the Kingdom of Fife. At the risk of missing my bus back…

  • Eye on Design | Buenos Aires | Perez Sanz | Sculptural Accessories

    Eye on Design | Buenos Aires | Perez Sanz | Sculptural Accessories

    When a metal sculptor focuses his talent on fashion and home accessories, you know they’re going to be incredible.  While I was in Buenos Aires, I went back to Perez Sanz several times, just to gaze at the gorgeousness. Julio Perez Sanz has been crafting his “sculptures” since 1966. He and his son, Luciano, make…

  • Style Moment | MALBA Museum, Buenos Aires

    Style Moment | MALBA Museum, Buenos Aires

    “If one says ‘red’ and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.” Josef Albers (1888-1976) German-born American artist and educator

  • Weird but Wonderful | Every Dog Has Its Day

    Weird but Wonderful | Every Dog Has Its Day

    Not a bad life for a dog . . . a nice long daily walk around Buenos Aires with your gang, led by a companionable human.

  • Buenos Aires | Taxi to a Tango

    Buenos Aires | Taxi to a Tango

    El Tango es el pulso natural de la muñeca de Buenos Aires. The Tango is the natural pulse of Buenos Aires. Leopoldo Marechal (1900-1970) Argentine writer When you’re in Buenos Aires, you can’t miss the fact that tango dancing is an integral part of the city’s way of life.  The only problem is, it’s become…

  • Style Moment | Caminito, Buenos Aires

    Style Moment | Caminito, Buenos Aires

    “Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.” Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965) Japanese author

  • Buenos Aires | Colorful Caminito

    Buenos Aires | Colorful Caminito

    I usually stay away from the mainstream tourist attractions, but Caminito, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Boca, is a photo op that I couldn’t miss. I went there early in the morning, long before the throngs of tourists would clog up the “little street”. . . the English translation for Caminito.  (Camino means…

  • Eye on Design | Buenos Aires | Vertical Produce

    Eye on Design | Buenos Aires | Vertical Produce

    I don’t know why, or even, in some cases, how, but the produce in Buenos Aires is stacked vertically.