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 →

El Viejo Oso Chocolatería

I have discovered a new Argentine chocolate that is pretty sublime. I had walked past El Viejo Oso Chocolatería just a couple of days before I stumbled across my first bar, but was… Continue reading →

La Virgen de las Nieves

Or Nuestra Señora de las Nieves, Our Lady of the Snow. She is the patron saint of mountaineers in Argentina, possibly elsewhere too. We stumbled across this shrine in a grotto on the… 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 →

The Fratelli Camisa Cookery Book

In this Buenos Aires household we are celebrating JP’s recently acquired Italian citizenship. Ma che bello! It is the well-deserved result of gathering essential paperwork – a birth certificate was sent over from Italy and… 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 →