More Buenos Aires

An ancient elevator in an ancient building in the heart of Buenos Aires – the building is now a community centre. Don’t know what it used to be – but it was very lovely like many many many buildings were in that city.

The view from above some Tango lessons in the beautiful old community centre. Tango is an integral part of Buenos Aires city culture – and it’s not just for the tourists – these are all local folks of all ages at their weekly lesson.


View from the major city square (I can’t remember the name anymore!) Everything was deadly quite on this Sunday afternoon. Pigeons abound.


Many of the beatiful and ornate buildings of this city sit vacant – here’s a couple on the stairs of one such vacant building – doors layered with posters.


And here’s the same building with some graffiti embellishment



And some more graffiti embellishments on a lovely statue right out front of the vacant building.


A bit of couture


At the wealthiest church in town – very pretty


The best gnocchi ever – I think I was half starved by the time I settled on eating here – A lot of my time in Buenos Aires was spend hunting down excellent and affordable eateries. This place was well worth it and I did not have such good gnocchi again on the rest of my trip.

Family day at the park in recoletta/retiro neighbourhood


The crazy massive cemetery with all kinds of ornate tombs – made the place look like a miniature city.


Some of these were very very old – complete with overgrown weeds, cobwebs and broken panes of glass.

The weekend market outside the crazy massive cemetery

The main drag at night – featuring the glowing obliesco – an excellent land mark for way finding in the city

In the “subte” (i.e. subway). BA has an excellent transit system – the subte was a great way to get around except on Sundays when you could wait half an hour for some trains. The busses get you around fast – if you can figure out which one to take and where to get on. And you better have the right change – about 10-25cents a ride on the bus – quite a bit more for the subway – There is a shortage of coin in this city so you have to hold on to them when you can get them… most places just round up or down to the nearest peso.


In an antique shop in the historic neighborhood of San Telmo lots of antique shops and a weekend antique market, and many up and coming trendy arty kind of shops


On the street in san telmo – buildings here were much smaller.


Another meal – this time the gnocchi were not quite as good… but they were alright – the setting in a tiny shady courtyard on a sunny day made it all ok.

Some street tango in action
Church (I think) in san Telmo – off the main square there.



Window of one of those arty shops in san Telmo



Some cool graffiti and a motor bike/scooter thingy – didn’t actually see so many of these around Lots of graffiti though –



The colorful but very poor neighborhood of la Bocca – famous for its soccer teams and buildings made out of salvages ship building materials due to it’s proximity to the port – a few streets in this neighborhood are spruced up and commercialized for curious tourists, but if you look like a tourist, don’t venture far off the main tourist strip unless you are willing to probably get mugged.



La Bocca from the safety of an uncrowded speeding bus




Pizza at on old pizza establishment back in the main part of town. The little slice in the foreground is entirely made of chick pea flower and seasoned with salt and white pepper.


I love the fountains. Victoria needs more fountains.


Picturesque clouds on the way to the airport