Little Conwy
I'm back in the UK for a few weeks and have been playing with my new camera - it's got lots of fancy, fiddly settings which I am trying to get to grips with. One preset function I have been having a lot of fun with is the tilt-shift setting, which basically focusses...
1940s Buenos Aires from Above
I'll tell anyone that listens that the best map of Buenos Aires is the Interactive Map on the Buenos Aires City Government site. With it you can easily find any street address and for planning a journey on public transport it's indispensable. However, today I...
Rufina Cambaceres – A Tragic & Beautiful Tale
Visitors to Recoleta Cemetery usually have one priority, to see the grave of Eva Perón. In fact to the average visitor to Argentina she is the only "name" that the cemetery has to offer. People at the gate will tell you where her (frankly underwhelming) family tomb...
Confiteria Del Molino, an Abandoned Landmark
In a city filled with architectural curiosities, one that captures the attention more than most is the Confiteria del Molino, on the corners of Rivadavia and Callao, opposite the Congeso Nacional. Abandoned since 1997, it now sits in one of the best locations of...
BsAs Local Tours on TV – part one
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to have a local tourism TV channel come along and film the tour in action. You can see all of their Argentina videos here, and most importantly, the first part of the programme they made is here: I've never once been...
Buenos Aires Local Tours on TV
Had a fun day yesterday as Argentinian tourism channel Turismo Visión came along to film the tour! They'd been looking for alternative ways to see the capital and loved the way we do things on colectivos and the Subte. It was very exciting and I can't wait to see the...
Asking the Right Questions
Fascinating report about a torture victim from Argentina's Dirty War meeting "Turco Julian", the man who tortured him every day for 6 months. via
It’s a Date – Calendar as Place Names
Being a bit of a geography nerd, one of the things I tend to notice when I travel is street names. In France it seems that every other street or avenue is named after a National Hero (Jean Jaurès is a particular favourite). New York uses numbers and Washington DC has...
Why I’ve Become a Tour Guide
My first attempt at being tour guide was not an unqualified success. Aged 21, I was in put in charge of 50 French kids who had just arrived in London at the start of a three-week stay to learn English. One of my duties, aside from stopping Xavier the 14-year sex pest...
Iguazu
Nazi Ghosts in the Jungle
San Ignacio in the Misiones Province of NorthEast Argentina is best know for the remains of the San Ignacio Mini Jesuit Mission. Founded in 1632, the Mission (along with 29 more spread out over modern day Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina) was an attempt to provide the...
A night at the theatre
One of the highlights of the Argentine Bicentenary celebrations this year was the reopening of the Teatro Colón which had been undergoing restoration since 2006. Opened originally in 1908 as South America's answer to the great Opera Houses of Milan, London and Paris,...