Archive for the ‘Argentina’ Category
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Empanadas may have originated in Spain (the Spanish verb "empanar" means to wrap or coat in bread) but it was in South America that their popularity grew, particularly in Argentina. Essentially a small, semi-circular pastry stuffed with various fillings, empanadas are deceptively easy to make.
Fillings vary from province to province ...
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Argentina is a a country where just about anything can be found. From a sultry street tango on a bustling street in Buenos Aires to the enormous whip-cracking sound of a house-sized chunk of ice falling from a glacier in Patagonia, Argentina is a land with something for everyone. Finding ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
'In Britain, the only time someone touches you like this, they're either your other half, someone you're about to get off with, or you're being sexually molested.
Waiting at the gate to board the flight to Buenos Aires, an awful sense of disquiet creeps upon me. I'm making a huge mistake. ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
“I HAD A flight back to New York after six weeks and I just simply didn’t take it, says designer Susan Kennedy of her impromptu move from the Big Apple to Buenos Aires two years ago.
For the Sandymount girl who left Ireland just weeks after her graduation in 1995, putting ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
THIRTY years ago, a holiday in Argentina probably wouldn’t have been on the cards for most UK tourists. As controversial battles waged in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, relations between Thatcher’s Britain and Argentina’s ruling military government were at an all-time low.
Today, thankfully, an invasion of a much more ...
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
A former torture chamber in Buenos Aires has been preserved as a memorial to the victims of a brutal, right-wing dictatorship
Hooded, tortured, handcuffed, chained by their feet to the wall _ that's the way prisoners at the Navy Mechanical School were kept at a notorious secret detention centre during the ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
For the month of January, I am taking an intensive language course with eleven other students. In February our regular spanish classes in Buenos Aires start, and about 70 more students will arrive. This past Thursday, our professor, Jose Maria, came over for dinner. We have two professors, but Jose ...
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Buenos Aires, Argentina, is well known for its booming arts scene. One way to experience the creative side of the city while also getting to enjoy the beautiful weather and outdoor scenery is through the myriad works of graffiti art that adorn the various neighborhoods.
Although many people may think of ...
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012
The powdery white sand beach of the world-famous Copacabana stretches to as far as the eyes can see. Here, millions of beach lovers from around the world make their pilgrimage every year even as the waters are not fit for swimming due to the freezing, huge waves. Just across the ...
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Argentina and Buenos Aires with its equal gay marriage has helped make it a destination for relaxed tourists. It became the first country in South America to allow same-sex marriage in July 2010, including full adoption rights, making it the first country in Latin American to do so.
Together with its ...
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