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Our Hotel Balcony The Gran Hotel Hispano is a two-star located in the Microcentro, smack dab in...
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Our Room Yes, it's plain, but for $38 a night in the heart of one of the...
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The Hotel Atrium The skylight rattled wonderfully whenever it rained, which it did for...
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Porteno Pride Jen purchased a soccer jersey from a vendor who was so ecstatic for...
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La Boca This working-class barrio is literally a rainbow of colors.
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Putting Up A Good Front An ecstatic sky blue facade in the front ... and a patched, ugly, gray cement...
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Open-Air Tango Dancers Since tango's revival a few years ago, these twirling and elegant couples...
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Dead Fish Earrings No joke. They cost two dollars and are made of fish skin. You can see their...
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Revisiting My Childhood Sport La Bombonera Stadium. The home of Boca Juniors and its disgraced star Diego...
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Boy...
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And Girl.
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It Looks Like A College Campus... ...but it's actually Retiro, a very wealthy barrio.
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The Best Restaurant in Buenos Aires This is Milion. It's built on the ground floor of an old...
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The Most Sublime Theater In The World The Teatro Colon. It took our breath away. Seven levels of red velvet, heavy...
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Los Productores
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Palermo Viejo This is the view from Plaza Dorrego, the painfully stylish barrio....
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Doing One Of The Things She Does Best After a week shopping with Jen, I can offer more opinions about heels,...
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Cafe Tortoni The most famous cafe in all of Argentina. Back in the day, this is...
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Tango Singer Except for "volver", we didn't understand a single word this man...
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Hold Me Closer, Gaucho Dancer This Argentine cowboy pounded a drum, danced a jig, and beat whips on the...
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Here's Why Jen Wouldn't Be Left Alone Jen wore this full-length coat to discourage pickpockets. Instead, it...
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Argentine Daily Life
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Buenos Aires Made Me Fat Here are the culprits: Bife de lomo and papas fritas. Plus helado for...
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Guerra Sucia From 1977 to 1983, the government was run by a bunch of thugs who...
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Mothers of the Disappeared They wear matching babushkas and pin faded pictures of their missing...
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The Capital of Argentina The Casa Rosada. It's been painted pink ever since a 19th-century...
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A Job Half Finished Carlos Menem, the infamous president who was exiled to Chile after leaving...
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Radical Graffiti
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The Final Days Are Upon Us
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Argentines Suck At Math Here's the bill from a lunch. Scrawled in the upper right corner...
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The Tomb of General Jose de San Martin The man who liberated Chile, Paraguay, and Argentina from Spanish control....
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Patriotic Shot
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Not Paris. Not Geneva. South America.
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Puente de la Mujer This pedestrian bridge in Puerto Madera actually swings ninety degrees...
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La Pintura Vaca
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A Shopping Mall That Looks Like A Museum The Galeria Pacifico.
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Oh, Wait, It IS a Museum. Here's Jen looking at a Picasso on the top floor of the Galeria....
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name This atmospheric joint, Bar El Federal, dates from the late 1800s. One...
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Calle Florida This is ground zero for cheap shopping. We both bought leather coats here for...
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The Obelisk Its only purpose seems to be to keep tourists like us from getting lost.
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Homeless People Sifting Through Garbage This is a cartonero. They rustle through trash at night looking for...
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The Necropolis This is the Cemeterio de la Recoleta. It's quite literally a city of the...
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An Unmaintained Crypt Rich porteno families have seen their estates lose two-thirds of their value...
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Spooky Crypts
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Another Spooky Crypt
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The Spookiest Crypt Ever
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There Must Not Be Any Ham In Hell
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I Can Be Very Ugly. But not as ugly as this zombie.
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Ghosts I swear that the alley was empty when I snapped this picture.
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The Oldest Subway in South America Linea A still uses the original wooden cars from 1913.
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World Cup Madness Begins
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Soccer Advertisements Are Everywhere
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Argentina vs. Ivory Coast At La Biela in Recoleta.
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Everything Stops For The World Cup. Including our waiters.
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Best Couple. Ever.
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Uruguay! Our day trip to Colonia del Sacramento, a Portuguese town across the...
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There Were Boats...
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Decrepit Buildings To Explore...
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Self-Portraits To Snap...
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And Even Ferocious Squirrels To Fear...
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However, There Were Also Dogs. These rascals hung around INSIDE the restaurant where we were eating...
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E.Coli Marks The End Yep, Jen was the unlucky recipient of a priceless gift given to thousands of...
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