Sob.
Marco is packing. I am sniffling morosely into the keyboard.
We leave tonight at midnight (or possibly tomorrow morning 2am, who knows. We're flying Aerolineas Argentinas, after all...)
our last stroll along Defensa for the Sunday San Telmo Feria
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one last lunch of chorizo, morcilla, provalone, rinones, bife de lomo, bife de chorizo and ensalada at the local parilla, Desnivel
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one last cd purchase from a street Orquestra Tipica
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hasta luego
sob
chao chao
8 July 2007
7 July 2007
Today's wonderings
you absolutely must have an icecream sundae at El Vesuvio
delivery bicycles are absolutely everywhere
arquitect alert: most edificios in Baires proudly display the names of the architect, builder, and sometimes the engineer
but not this one.
Can anyone tell me what the symbol of the two arms holding a stick with a red beanie on it means? it's absolutely everywhere
in the Cathedral
on the waterworks building
at the Plaza Asturia restaurant
delivery bicycles are absolutely everywhere
arquitect alert: most edificios in Baires proudly display the names of the architect, builder, and sometimes the engineer
but not this one.
Can anyone tell me what the symbol of the two arms holding a stick with a red beanie on it means? it's absolutely everywhere
in the Cathedral
on the waterworks building
at the Plaza Asturia restaurant
Reasons to love San Telmo, Part Two.
Things you absolutely can't photograph
Tango classes.
Gabriel and Julietta from Tangocool are my absolutely favourite teachers.
Sometimes Gabriel looks alarmingly like Mr Bean.
Absolutely everyone must go to one Wednesday afternoon class with Eduardo Saucedo at Confiteria Ideal. Sadly he has upgraded his hairdo from magnificent mullet to something more sedate, but three hours of his muy effervescent high camp passion is a must. And Ideal is divine.
Mosquitos. I think I've donated about a litre of blood to these little portenas...I feel faint...quick, pass me a medialuna slathered with dulce de leche...
Milongas.
Absolutely everyone must go to one matinee (afternoon) milonga, or viejoteca as Marco and I call them. It's nice to know there will still be somewhere to go out to when you're 90.
Smells.
In rare moments, in the mornings, the diesel fumes lift and the delicious scent of woodsmoke from parillas (charcoal grills) firing up for the day mingle with the sugary doughy perfume of baking medialunas (pastelerias/confiterias bake all day).
Noise.
Consistent and insistent.
Linaea A
The first subte line (underground train) still runs the original timber trains. It feels like being inside a live animal as they stretch and flex organically as they rattle along.
Poverty.
It's still a really really really tough life for many here.
Gabriel and Julietta from Tangocool are my absolutely favourite teachers.
Sometimes Gabriel looks alarmingly like Mr Bean.
Absolutely everyone must go to one Wednesday afternoon class with Eduardo Saucedo at Confiteria Ideal. Sadly he has upgraded his hairdo from magnificent mullet to something more sedate, but three hours of his muy effervescent high camp passion is a must. And Ideal is divine.
Mosquitos. I think I've donated about a litre of blood to these little portenas...I feel faint...quick, pass me a medialuna slathered with dulce de leche...
Milongas.
Absolutely everyone must go to one matinee (afternoon) milonga, or viejoteca as Marco and I call them. It's nice to know there will still be somewhere to go out to when you're 90.
Smells.
In rare moments, in the mornings, the diesel fumes lift and the delicious scent of woodsmoke from parillas (charcoal grills) firing up for the day mingle with the sugary doughy perfume of baking medialunas (pastelerias/confiterias bake all day).
Noise.
Consistent and insistent.
Linaea A
The first subte line (underground train) still runs the original timber trains. It feels like being inside a live animal as they stretch and flex organically as they rattle along.
Poverty.
It's still a really really really tough life for many here.
6 July 2007
Shopping
5 July 2007
Porteno Oddservations
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