Buenos Aires rat race views

I perch on a bench near the office eating my lunch and drinking in this view of the port. The Puente de la Mujer stealing centre stage. ‘Women’s Bridge’ is a terrible translation for… Continue reading →

Circuito Chico

Having my mum visiting was the perfect time to be a gung-ho Bariloche tourist. We spun around the two main sightseeing routes, Circuito Chico and Circuito Grande, tracing the smaller chico loop first. We began… Continue reading →

San Carlos de Bariloche

Lakes, forested hills, snow-topped mountains, alpine air, chocolate chocolate chocolate. We have escaped the hot humid city in the last remnants of summer to the cool, fresh air of Bariloche for the next… Continue reading →

La Porteña

It was and is wonderful to have family visiting last month and next month, especially as I won’t make it back to England this year. The first time family visited me here in… Continue reading →

San Telmo

The Saturday before Christmas, I ventured into San Telmo and found it blissfully empty. The old neighbourhood south of Plaza de Mayo is usually full of tourists, cooing that they want to live… Continue reading →

La Plata

Gosh, this blog needs some new year oomph. Going back to early December, we zoomed to the small city of La Plata on the motorbike to spend a Sunday nosing around. Clinging onto… Continue reading →

Summertime at the park

The Palermo parks in summertime are brimming with activity. Just one block from us, they’re one of many reasons I love our pocket of the city. The exercise track surrounding the Rosedal rose… Continue reading →

Graduation

JP graduated on Wednesday as a fully-fledged engineer. Hooray! In my opinion a long and very difficult degree, judging by the complex engineering tomes on our bookshelf and pages of neat, mind-boggling equations… Continue reading →

Pileta & Jacaranda

Thank you for la pileta, the pool on the roof of our building… Birds chirp and swoop overhead, insects potter about on the edge and sometimes make the fatal leap into the twinkling… Continue reading →

Facultad de Ingeniería

…Faculty of Engineering at the University of Buenos Aires. We sped here last night on the Falcon motorbike, as JP is getting ready to graduate. It was my first time in the building, and… Continue reading →