Palermo is is the most trendy part of Buenos Aires, so you can expect the shopping to be quite good. Full of boutiques shop and name brands catering to men and women alike, the streets of Palermo Soho are a shopping Paradise and you will find that most shopping can be done within a few blocks in Palermo Soho.
San Telmo is the place to go if you are looking for antiques. The streets of Defensa are filled with different kinds of antique shops where finding a hidden treasure is not that hard. San Telmo also has a good amount of boutique clothing stores that cater to the bohemian vibe of the neighborhood. Make sure to explore San Telmo on a Sunday, when the whole street of Defensa is closed off and becomes a large market where individual merchants selling all kinds of things flood the streets. (more…)
Like every big city, Buenos Aires has many popular tourist attractions that can be found in every guide book or website you read about it. Many times as tourists, we go to popular tourists sites that are labeled “must sees” only to come away feeling disappointed and misguided. This post is not to say you shouldn’t visit any of the places listed, but rather to analyze if they really are a “must see” destination like so many websites and guide books say they are. (more…)
Last weekend my girlfriend and I decided to check out the little town of Federación in the Entre Rios providence of Argentina. Federación is nothing spectacular and surely isn’t a place tourists coming to Argentina are going to visit, but if you live in Argentina and have already visited some of the best sites, Federación is a great place to go for a long weekend. Also, being around 7 hours from Buenos Aires, it is a shorter option if you don’t want to spend 17 hours on a bus. (more…)
I think we’d all agree that Buenos Aires is pretty well-served by public transport. The subte is very cheap and convenient, taxis are relatively cheap too and ridiculously plentiful, and once you work out how to read a Guia-T and get access to the buses as well then you have a Triple Threat of transport options that can take you wherever you need to go. (more…)
Buenos Aires is a great city, but Argentina is a great country, and it would be a shame if you lived here and didn’t see all that it has to offer. And so without further ado, here are 8 places in Argentina you absolutely must visit. (more…)
Greetings folks. I am excited to announce that I will be starting a weekly newsletter for A Gringo in Buenos Aires! The plan is as follows:
The plan will be to release a new newsletter once a week. I have subscribed to many email lists in the past and I have found myself unsubscribing to more than I have followed. Usually this was due to newsletters invading my inbox every single day with pointless information. My goal is to make this newsletter something that you will look forward to every week and to provide you with information that is actually useful. (more…)
When you move to a new country there are a lot of things you need to do to get yourself established. Find a place to live, get a job, make new friends, learn the language, learn to sidestep the dog poo and holes in the pavement and so on. It’s not surprising that things like exercise and playing sport take a back seat.
On the other hand, look at it this way: if you’re living in Buenos Aires, you’re already on an Atkins diet, why not go the whole hog and exercise as well? When you go home, either for a visit or for good, your trim, muscular physique will be the envy of all your friends.
What are the options for endeavors of a sporting nature in Buenos Aires though? Let’s take a look at four of them. (more…)
It’s possible to divide the countries of the world into two categories: those that have pay-by-the-hour hotels, and those that don’t. It’s not a big concept in Australia or the United States, for example. But in Japan, they’re ubiquitous. In Mexico and Guatemala, it’s the same. And in Argentina too, they abound: there are 150+ pay-by-the-hour hotels in the Capital Federal district alone. (more…)
Feel like getting your Wild West on? You’ve come to the right country. Argentina’s answer to the North American Midwest, the Pampas, is a vast plain that stretches to the south and west of Buenos Aires and covers some 800,000 square miles. It’s one of the largest fertile plains in the entire world. And as far as the culture goes, switch ranch for estancia and cowboy for gaucho and you’re already a long way to understanding this region. Maybe that’s because cattle and sheep are cattle and sheep no matter where you are in the world… (more…)
Every expat in Buenos Aires needs a checklist for entertaining guests when they’re in town – say perhaps a bottle of Malbec at El Federal, dinner at Desnivel, next day a stroll along Avenida de Mayo stopping for a coffee at Café Tortoni. Do you have yours yet? If not, here are some things that you might want to consider including: (more…)
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