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Heaven for the bookworm!

Bookworm alert!  For all who, like me, cannot resist a good bookstore (worse than going into a candy store), Buenos Aires has a special treat:  The “Ateneo Grand Splendid” centrally situated on Avenida Santa Fé has been rated 2nd best in the world by the British newspaper “The Guardian” in a 2008 survey (more…) And [...]

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A night out in Buenos Aires

You don’t necessarily come here for the food, nor for the sound of the tin-ey sounding piano.  You do come to this place because of the atmosphere oozing from the aged bricks and to enjoy the nightly changing program of classic and modern tango/jazz/vocals/Argentine  soul. On the night I attended, the young Uruguayan singer Valeria [...]

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