 | I'm in love...
2009-07-23, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: wcaruso | | ...with this city! haha Buenos Aires was so amazing, I didn't write ANY blogs when I was there, so here I am, safe at home in Sebastopol afte 15 hours on 3 planes to tell you a little bit about it. W... |
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 | Weekend in Bs As
2009-07-20, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: kwarne | | Bs As is still amazing - we are all in love with it. It has a nice mix of European and Spanish culture...reminds me of studying abroad!
Friday night we went out to an area called Palermo, which is ... |
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| Bs As
2009-07-17, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: kwarne | | Buenos Aires is absolutely amazing! I dont want to leave, and we havent even seen a tenth of the city yet! It is such a gorgeous city - the architecture of all the buildings are really European. It is... |
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| Finally in Buenos Aires
2009-07-15, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: kwarne | | We finally arrived in the much anticipated Buenos Aires! I cant belive our whole trip has been leading up to this city - and we are here!
Last night we got a 715 bus out of Puerto Iguazu, and arri... |
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 | Maradonatown – Otherwise known as Buenos Aires
2009-06-14, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: travelalex | | What strikes me about Buenos Aires, apart from the fact that it’s an absolutely gorgeous city, is how much it reminds me of Australia. Not in it’s appearance, but in it’s atmosphere. I think after c... |
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 | Buenos Aires
2009-03-18, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: rossnkaren | | Karen: First stop in BA was Recoleta Cemetery. The guide book said it's a must and to take your camera as there are a lot of photo ops. Well we thought, how tasteless – but we went along all the same!... |
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 | day 1
2009-03-19, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: brittany | | Ok well were here. We just arrived in the beautiful Buenos Aires. When we first arrived we dropped our bags off and went straight to the Caminito Street Museum. The museum was so beautiful. It had bri... |
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 | Mate with new mates - and onto Buenos Aires
2009-03-10, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: fidgi | | Three days in Argentina and I now feel quite well integrated here. I have eaten a big juicy steak at a ‘pampa’ (served not in a slice but in a huge bleeding chunk on my plate!), I have partaken of ‘m... |
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 | Stepping into the second best country in the world
2009-01-21, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: archstar17 | | I found home, I love this city. we drove for a few days to get here and bush camped in Plantation of night shades (gum trees) and watched the stars all night long. We dropped Flecity off at the Scania... |
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 | Antarctica - part the first.
2008-12-15, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: valminx | | Its been a while since this thing was last updated, so apologies if you thought we’d died :o) as most of you know we returned from China in September - back to this depressing soap opera ridden, reali... |
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 | ¿Hablas inglés? - the most important Spanish phrase
2008-10-31, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: Kito | | Hello everbody!
Unfortunately a bit late (we are already in Puerto Natales (Chile) for our trekking trip to National Park "Torres del Paine", enjoying the last comfy night in a cosy, warm bed), but... |
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 | Day 4
2008-06-24, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: osukels | | June 24, 2008 – This morning started a little rough, as the one elevator was not enough to get all of us down, as well as the other people that were staying in the hotel! Breakfast was the normal, ... |
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| Day 3
2008-06-23, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: osukels | | June 23, 2008 – This morning we met in the lobby for breakfast. This included more pastries, as well as meat and cheese trays, along with some fresh fruit. We got on the bus and traveled north to De... |
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 | Buenos Aires and Tigre
2008-09-01, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: pedrofletc | | Buenos Aires looks like a bit of a concrete jungle and so you need a few days to get into it. Walking the streets all day you get sore feet and suck up a fair bit of exhaust. But if you go to the righ... |
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 | This past weekend
2008-08-05, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: anm6c6 | | This past weekend was busy. On Saturday I took a ferry to Uruguay. The ferry was really nice it had plush seats and plasma tvs (see the pictures). Uruguay was pretty boring, but at least I got my pass... |
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 | I played in goal for Brazil !!
2008-08-02, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: cbr600f | | Hola chicos !
Lots to catch you up on .... firstly, my first (and only) time playing in goal for Brazil ! I think it was the second night here and my room-mate Brazilian boys had met some local lads ... |
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 | That'll be 3 then ....
2008-07-31, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: cbr600f | | ..... ha ! My 3rd photo on the "photo of the day" thing on the site's home page !! |
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| This Week
2008-07-30, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: anm6c6 | | This week I have the class Globilization and Trade, it is similar to my class last week but there are more interactions. During each class we have speaker. Today's speaker was an American owner of a C... |
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| As I promised when I was in Peru ....
2008-07-29, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: cbr600f | | Unfortunately the site administrator has removed my photos as they had text on them ... grrrr.
You may remember that one of the days during the dolphin research project I mentioned we saw loads of ... |
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| From one extreme to another ....
2008-07-28, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: cbr600f | | For someone who doesn't like cities I seem to spending a fair amount of time in them ! I'm here in Buenos Aires having arrived yesterday after a gruelling 24 hours on a bus from Bariloche.
Departin... |
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| Today
2008-07-22, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: anm6c6 | |
Hello,
There's not much going on today I went to class, ate lunch, went to the bank, and went back home. I'm going to take a nap this afternoon to catch up on sleep. Since there's not much to tal... |
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 | Trip to B.A.
2008-07-21, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: anm6c6 | | My trip to B.A.
July 19th
I left home at 6:30 a.m.
8:30 a.m. flight to denver
Arrived in Denver at 10:00 mountain time
12:25 flight to D.C.
Arrived in D.C. around 6:30 p.m.
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| I'm Finally Here
2008-07-20, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: anm6c6 | | After a day of traveling I'm finally in Buenos Aires. I'm here to study abroad with TU Law school and several other host universities. At the end of my trip I will provide some information to college ... |
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| Day 2
2008-06-22, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: osukels | | June 22, 2008 – This morning we took a short bus ride to the domestic airport in Buenos Aries. Check in was a process and we found out that our bags weren’t supposed to weigh more than 30 lbs for a d... |
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| Day 1
2008-06-21, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: osukels | | June 21, 2008 – We arrived in Buenos Aries a little behind schedule around 9 a.m. Our luggage was the last to come through baggage claim, we were all a little worried! It was very easy to get throug... |
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 | My 3rd World Hospital Experience
2008-03-06, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | No I didn't get sick! lol, My teacher set up for me to go to a hospital for a couple of hours. I toured the hospital and spoke to the nurses and doctors. Everyone was very receptive and friendly. My l... |
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| Goodbye to Buenos Aires
2008-03-09, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | Wow, I can't believe my time here in BA is ending. It's been absolutely amazing and I don't want to leave.
I had an awesome week. Class was a disaster for our teacher because she couldn't really p... |
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| Back in Buenos Aires after an amazing long weekend
2008-03-03, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | Sorry, I have been silent, I will write more later. Since I last wrote, I finished out the week here in Buenos Aires with classes, hanging out, etc., nothing super eventful.
I had gotten a Brazili... |
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| Things Very Argentine
2008-02-25, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | - Mate – Their version of tea, it has this “herb or whatever?” called Yerba in it filled to the brim and you drink it through a straw that’s only open at the top, but it has holes so that you can drin... |
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| Things I Miss
2008-02-25, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | Things I miss most from back home
- My Family and Friends
- Being able to understand menus/ knowing all the foods
- Being able to cook with the ingredients I’m used to
- IHOP - Pancakes and Fre... |
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| Man can’t live on bread alone
2008-02-25, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | I am worried that I am going to gain so much weight here. I am having a little trouble getting adjusted to the food. I feel like I eat nothing but empanadas, bread, soda, and ice cream, and meat. The ... |
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 | Eternal Spottiness of a Confused Mind
2008-02-12, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | It feels like a dream, waking up in Buenos Aires. I walk down the city streets not fully grasping how the buildings lead only to more buildings. No beach, no mountains, no vines and orchids hanging ... |
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| Skype is Amazing
2008-02-08, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | The students here introduced me to skype. It's a pretty sweet program. You can download it onto your computer for free (google: Skype). It's a program that with a headset, you can talk to other skye m... |
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| I am not from Brazil!
2008-02-10, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | You can live a pretty sweet life here in Beunos Aires. It's fairly cheap to get by here, considering the conversion. It's 1 USD : 3 Pesos, which is prett awesome, but when you buy anything American, i... |
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| Oh how I love the Spanish Language
2008-02-11, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: lmae613 | | Class is going well. I'm slowly adjusting to the different spanish pronunciation of words. Calle - instead of pronouncing 'll' as a 'y' as in spain and most of latin america and how I learned, they pr... |
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 | Last Days in Buenos Aires
2007-12-20, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | After I received my visa to Brazil (and you can bet that I’m omitting plenty of tedious details in the statement), it really began to sink in that Argentina would no longer be my home.
I had to ask... |
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 | Pushes and Pulls
2007-12-15, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Jacey, gone. Stanley, gone. Just when I made peace, a new wave crashed its crest full of shit over me. At least, that’s how it felt. I had seven days left in my apartment before the lease ran out.... |
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 | The Strategy (Or Stratagem)
2007-12-03, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Mechanism for survival: Try something new every day. Whether it’s strolling into an unfamiliar neighborhood (shoddy La Boca), or eating a different kind of empanada (carrot in whole wheat), the novel... |
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 | Reevaluation
2007-11-31, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By: sauntering | | Let me get this straight. I’m “stranded” in Argentina…without a serious job…without anybody to answer to… with a bit of savings and the sympathy (thus potential for monetary support) of my parents… I... |
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