Subte Stories explores Buenos Aires’ lesser-known subte stops and the neighbourhoods they are found in, scoping out local stories and the best on offer within four blocks or less. To inaugurate the series we take a look at Caballito’s Estación Acoyte on the A Line – the southern hemisphere’s oldest subway. Tanganyika, the Upper Volta, …
West African blues twangs from the speakers and coalesces with the sounds of fish grilling, plantains sizzling, and the muffled bang of a pot or pan coming from the small kitchen. A map of Africa painted in red, its countries labelled in French, offers diners a silent geography lesson from the wall above the beer-stocked …
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This travel piece was written about two and a half years ago - having come back to Buenos Aires with fresh eyes I would probably make a few changes, but this gives a good idea of my perception of the city back then, and honestly, soccer here hasn't changed all that much. If anything, it's gotten …
For those travellers spending any significant amount of time in Buenos Aires, Colonia del Sacramento, the tiny historic city on the Uruguayan side of the Río de la Plata, will most likely find its way onto your travel itinerary, whether you like it or not. A trip to Colonia has become so enmeshed with the …
This past weekend Lis and I performed the tri-monthly expat ritual of crossing the Río de la Plata to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, to renew our tourist visas. I took the opportunity to write a Top 5 article for The Argentina Independent that will publish next week. When I told my editors I wanted to …
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