Pablo Juan Augustinowicz: Pablo Juan Augustinowicz is a Toronto native who has established in Buenos Aires some years ago. He is an avid traveller as well as an amateur photographer. He´s backpacked most of Europe and ventured across Costa Rica’s jungle. He driscribes Buenos Aires as a "cosmopolitan city that resembles Paris but lives like New York”.

Subtes, A Great Way to Get Around

The subway (or metro) in Buenos Aires is known as "subte" (subterraneo, which means underground). Taking the subte is a fast, cheap and reliable way to get around Buenos Aires. Though many of the main city sights are within walking distance of the centre, there a couple of places for you will need to use public transport. Subte is my favourite means of transportation in the city, and the main lines are always getting extended. There are five main lines (A, B, C, D, and E), and they fan...

April 6th, 2008 | Buenos Aires | Read More

Tango Info Source

Are you looking for a good place to watch a great tango show? Are you feeling overwhelmed by the massive selection of shows in the billboards? Do you need advice on which is the best one to go to? Well, there is a place I recommend you pay a visit to: Tangodata. This office, sponsored by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, is staffed by multilingual employees that will help you weed through different tango shows available in the area. Tangodata is located at Avenida Pte. Roque Sáenz...

March 27th, 2008 | Buenos Aires | Read More

Get to Know Your Money

Buenos Aires is a great place to visit, but as any other big metropolitan city of the world, it has its good side and obviously its bad side. So, beware of money scams. Here are some tips that may came in handy. After exchanging money or withdrawing from an ATM, familiarize yourself with the bills. There are six different denominations, and these are: 100, 50, 20, 10, 5, and 2 pesos. When paying taxi drivers use smaller bills. Do not give them a 100 pesos note. Some drivers will give your change...

March 21st, 2008 | Buenos Aires | Read More

Telos (not hotel)

Beware when looking on your own for a place to stay in Buenos Aires, for you will see some places advertised as "Hotel", but they just might not be exactly what you are looking for. There are "normal hotels" and there are "telos". Telos are also known as "albergues transitorios", and are basically places where you rent a room by the hour. This may sound a bit sleazy but it actually is quite a common practice here for many people to go to telos with their girlfriend,...

March 13th, 2008 | Buenos Aires | Read More

Tourist City Guide in PDF Format

Buenos Aires is the perfect destination since it allows the visitor not only to view the city but also to live an exceptional urban adventure and make you part of it. Buenos Aires combines varied experiences and this variety may suit all tastes. Buenos Aires is really great to all visitors and to make the experience more exciting, the Government of the City of Buenos Aires through the Tourism Bureau has created a web page with lots of interesting and important information for all those who want to know...

February 22nd, 2008 | Buenos Aires | Read More

Resto-bar Doctor Masón

Back in the late nineteenth Century, a British physician named Mason established himself in Palermo. At his house, he offered his services and hospitality to the neighbors. The back ally street where the house was located was named after the good doctor. In that same house, in a hidden corner of Palermo, was established the resto-bar Doctor Masón which gathers the most distinctive characteristics of Europe with a touch of Buenos Aires. This old house, where the delicate light that emanates...

February 15th, 2008 | Buenos Aires | Read More

Fútbol Pasión

Fútbol (Soccer in North America and Football in the UK) in Buenos Aires is a unique, fascinating and exciting experience. The city is fútbol crazy, with 20 stadiums in the area. Passions run so high that it becomes almost a religion. Reserve your Sundays, or maybe sometimes Wednesdays, to go watch a fútbol match. If possible go to a Boca or River match, or even better, Boca and River head to head. They are the biggest teams in Argentina and archenemies.Boca Juniors is one...

January 28th, 2008 | Buenos Aires | Read More

The Dog-Walkers of Buenos Aires

You will surely see this scene a few times while you are visiting Buenos Aires: a guy walking about ten dogs or more. He is one of the infamous dog-walkers of Buenos Aires. Dogs are the most popular pets here in the city, and as most people live in apartments and work all day, the dogs have to be taken out on a regular basis. Dog-walkers have the job of doing this while people work. They have to walk the dogs twice each day, rain or shine, and of course keep the dogs under some kind of orderly control....

January 27th, 2008 | Buenos Aires | Read More

Have a Mate!!

If anyone asks you to try mate, don’t turn it down! Mate is a very popular type of tea everyone drinks all the time, everywhere. But it is more than just a drink, it is a tradition in Argentina. The herbs, which come from a tree that grows throughout the Mesopotamia region of Argentina, are called yerba mate. They are placed in a container (made out of wood or metal or sometimes a hollowed-out gourd) called a mate. Hot water is poured into the mate. Then you drink the tea through a straw, usually...

January 25th, 2008 | Buenos Aires | Read More

A Natural Reserve Right in the City

Located a few blocks from the city’s downtown financial and administrative madness, La Reserva Ecologica Costanera Sur (Ecological Reserve) is a green space of 360 hectares with unique features within the City of Buenos Aires. This natural reserve gives the city some fresh air, same as the Palermo Woods, but with the possibility of contact with nature. Its grounds were gain to the river by numerous rubble dumpings. Over the years a large number of plants as well as a variety of fauna established...

January 17th, 2008 | Buenos Aires | Read More

Tango del Arrabal

Las Minas Del Tango Reo is a new show that allows porteños approach a critical part of their cultural heritage: the real poesia rea (rascal poetry). Every Thursday at 20.30, in the Espacio Living, the Centro Cultural Recoleta presents Las Minas del Tango Reo (The Rascal Tango Girls), a spectacle of Lucrecia Merico and Valeria Shapira, with free entrance. The show focuses on a moment in the lives of two real female singers who act in locals with dubious category of Buenos Aires, two tango girls...

January 8th, 2008 | Buenos Aires | Read More

Buenos Aires is Culture

It is summer 2008, and the Ministry of Culture of the city offers a complete agenda full of quality entertainment and activities to enjoy in various open public spaces of Buenos Aires, with free admission and free of charge. The proposal includes films, music, science, history, literature and theater, among other things. The cycle, which was presented last December 13 at the Centro Cultural del Sur by the Minister of Culture, will run for 8 weeks, from 12 January to 1 March 2008, in parks and squares...

December 20th, 2007 | Buenos Aires | Read More

The Factory of Music

The last month of the year marks an end and a beginning when it comes to music in Buenos Aires. The culmination of the “Ciclo de Música Contemporanea” (Cycle of Contemporary Music) happens with a presentation called “Instalación Sonora para 34 Pianos”. This installation features 34 pianos located in the different classrooms and halls of the building that houses the National Conservatory of Music. The production is entirely based on materials supplied by composers...

December 3rd, 2007 | Buenos Aires | Read More

Beautiful Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital city, is a large metropolis known as “the Paris of the South” for its beautiful buildings designed by French architects, and the rich European heritage of the “porteños” – as the natives of Buenos Aires are called. Nowadays, the city´s frantic way of life may be compared with that of New York City. Buenos Aires is a stylish and seductive port city, where you will find everything you need to have a great time....

November 30th, 2007 | Buenos Aires | Read More