Sunday: A Quiet Day in Buenos Aires
Sunday is a quiet day in Buenos Aires. Avenida Callao’s six lanes of frenzied traffic are less boisterous on Sunday morning and the sun is shining brightly as it rises from the east and crests the living room window in our...
On the Lakes in Ushuaia, Argentina
We are the last pickup for our tour this morning, and Cesar, our guide, sits us up front with the only other English speaking tourists on the 40 seat bus, a young couple from Ireland. We have noticed a distinct lack of...
Spinning our Wheels in Buenos Aires.
We have spent one week of spinning our wheels in the delightful city of Buenos Aires but admittedly we are feeling very frustrated with the process of booking flights and organizing the rest of our Argentinean itinerary. We have...
An Entire Year of Following Summer.
A day of travel and time for contemplation. The beginning of a year of living in the moment, following an intense period of planning, when it often seemed that we spent all our time living in the future as we laid the groundwork...
Travel the Train to the Clouds
It is bright by 6:00 a.m., a bit overcast as we shower and get ready for our long day of touring Salta and Jujuy provinces. The bus arrives right on time, we meet our guide, Yako, pick up a few more, and we are off for 13 hours...
North to Salta, Argentina
The alarm rings at 3:45 a.m. to rouse us for our 4:30 ride to Aeroparque, the downtown Buenos Aires airport situated by the river, on our way north to Salta Almost a year later, these early hours still kill me. We have a 6:00...
#FSTravels NEWS Weekend Edition
This weekend we are packing our beach bags with shorts, towels and sun tan lotion as we return to the British Virgin Islands next week. We are also finalizing our trip to Sicily in May, booking hotels and Airbnb’s for our...
Concerning Food and Drink in Argentina
We have been really impressed by the variety and quality of food and service being offered here in Buenos Aires. If these high levels and consistency remain the same elsewhere in Argentina, then they will receive the...
Down Argentine Way
Gent to Frankfurt: 451 kilometres Kilometres driven in Europe since June 16: 19,796! It is a sad day today as we leave the comfort of Yves and Marc’s great home, and Europe, to continue our journey to Argentina and the last...
Are You Part of the “Lufthansa Group”?
Lufthansa has given us a room in a 5 star hotel with three full meals and use of the room for the full day, until we need to head over to the airport for the flight. We are still boiling mad from their shoddy treatment of us last...
Bienvenidos a Argentina!
S 34 W 058 Bienvenidos a Argentina! Sometime during the night we cross the equator one more time, our 5th crossing so far this year. And then finally, at 8:20 a.m., 1 day late but right on schedule, we arrive in Buenos...
Jacarandas in Full Bloom in Buenos Aires
It is spring outside today – rain is in the air, but the sun is out. The jacarandas are in full bloom, adding a canopy of bright purple above our heads and a carpet of spent, faded purple under our feet. We agree to take...
Still Waiting for Lufthansa
The alarm goes at 9:45 – the service technician is arriving at 10 to fix the blinds. I feel better than I should considering how late we danced the night away. Greg is first for waiting today, so he waits, while I go buy...
An UnPlanned Plan in Buenos Aires, Argentina
An unplanned walking tour is planned for today, covering the areas heading north towards the Plaza San Martin across the Av. 9 de Julio, past the Falklands War Memorial, to the Torre de los Ingleses, into Puerto Madero and...
“It is cheaper to live extravagantly all your life than to be buried in Recoleta.”
The day rises sunny and bright; a piercing blue sky that is complimented by those still-flowering, incredibly purple jacaranda trees. Rain showers occasionally harass the tourists but never long enough to dampen anyone’s...
Quiet Movie Day in Buenos Aires
We have a very quiet weekend. The weather is very spring-like. We walk around the neighbourhood, doing our chores, umbrellas open. Sunday afternoon we take in a movie, an American thriller with Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, and...
Opting Out of Uncomfortable Travel
We told the hotel front desk last night that when the tour came at 7 a.m. this morning to pick us up, they were to say we were unwell and wouldn’t be going. We are both happy and relieved to have cancelled out of...
A Night at the Opera in Buenos Aires
We have two things on today’s agenda: 1) to get back to Buenos Aires; 2) the performance of Benjamin Britten’s opera “Death in Venice” at the Teatro Colon. The early morning flight home is uneventful,...
Catching Up with Friends, New and Old in Buenos Aires
While we were in Salta, we discovered that our friend John B. is visiting Buenos Aires, where he was born. This is his first time back since he was 7, when his parents decided that their future didn’t lie in...