by Jonathan Evans | May 18, 2010 | Argentina, Non-Travel, South America
There’s a nice article over on Going Local Travel about how the Argentinians are claiming that they invented the internet (or the word at least). Obviously this is a little bit of fun (I hope so) but it does raise the question of how we define which country...
by Jonathan Evans | May 18, 2010 | Argentina, Non-Travel, South America
Last year I volunteered for 3 months for a youth club in Buenos Aires, helping out with English lessons, homework and all sorts of stuff. In November I organised (and wrote) a quiz [singlepic id=42 w=160 h=120 float=left]to help raise some funds, and last week the...
by Jonathan Evans | May 15, 2010 | Argentina, Food, Photos, PotD, South America
Bife de Lomo, La Brigada, Buenos Aires, 26th June 2009. Bon Apetit as they don’t say here!
by Jonathan Evans | Apr 20, 2010 | Argentina, South America
If there’s one way of impressing somebody who has never been to South America before, it’s by saying, “Oh I’m going to such and such tomorrow, it’s a 20 hour bus ride”. To someone who has been here before then all you’ll get...
by Jonathan Evans | Apr 18, 2010 | Argentina, Chile, South America
This post was originally published in March 2009 Confused? During one of my moments of meditation sitting staring at the cruise ship (seriously, just how do those things float?) I decided that I was going to head back to Buenos Aires for a variety of reasons. Send me...
by Jonathan Evans | Apr 17, 2010 | Argentina, Brasil, Food, General Travel, Peru, South America
One of the joys of travelling in a country where they don’t speak your language is that occasionally you’ll come across a name that has one meaning for the locals and another entirely for you. And you can take a picture and giggle at the crazy foreign...