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Stock Market Investing News — What We’re Up To
We’ve been off the radar for a while… that’s because we’ve been working away at the business that was the purpose of our move to Argentina.
We’ve finally gotten our website up, you can see it here: Stock Market Investing News
It’s been a long uphill battle, but we’re pretty happy with the results so far… Now all [...]
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Back From the Blogging Dead
It’s nearly a year that we’ve lived in Buenos Aires. A whole hell of a lot has happened and we don’t even know where to begin… But, we’re not going to get into all that right now anyway… Instead, we’d like to shamelessly self-promote a project that we’re involved in.
If you can read Spanish and would [...]
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The Worst Best Restaurant in the City
Over the last 8 months of living in Buenos Aires we’ve had the pleasure of visiting quite a few of the city’s excellent restaurants. We had some family in town recently and on their final night here we decided to give them a fancy last hurrah dinner at one of the best restaurants in the [...]
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Palermo Viejo Is Booming
Despite the high profile robbery of Francis Ford Coppola’s petit-hotel in Palermo Viejo (Soho) two weeks ago, the area is nevertheless booming…
This weekend the weather was absolutely gorgeous and the streets of this small area of Palermo were packed with tourists, hipsters, regular ol’ Portenos, your editor, and his beautiful wife. The area has it’s [...]
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MIA y Mayhem
We apologize for going missing in action the past two weeks… Our excuse(s)? Meetings and travel in Europe, a move within Buenos Aires, and turmoil in business have kept us busy buried little bees…
We’re recovering our composure and will get back to our regular blogging duties as best as we can starting today dear reader.
In recent [...]
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Armed Thieves Raid Francis Ford Coppola’s Home in Palermo Soho
In so many ways Buenos Aires is calm and safe. In so many ways it can be just the opposite…
News just came in that Coppola’s home and office was broken into last night, his employees tied up and his laptop, containing work for his new movie, stolen along with other electronics… Ouch!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/27/people.coppola.ap/index.html
From the Clarin in Spanish: http://www.clarin.com/diario/2007/09/27/um/m-01507593.htm
Visit [...]
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Gringos’ First Asado
We hosted our first Argentine-style ‘asado’, for 20 or so people, on the roof of our apartment-building here in Buenos Aires on Friday.
Argentines take their asados seriously. Our spanish teacher was going to be there and our Argentine colleagues. We were a bit nervous about embarassing ourselves, and at first, most of our fears were realized…
I [...]
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The Argentina Dream Tour
If you’ve been thinking about visiting Argentina… If you want to experience the vibrant culture, the friendly people, the opportunities, the beautiful and diverse landscapes… then you won’t want to miss this tour organized by my friends at Agora Travel this November 3rd-16th.
This tour is unique and exclusive (only 16 people) as it is done with a private chartered plane, so, you can [...]
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Imitating Sophistication, Looking at Art
Last night we finally delved into the Buenos Aires art scene… We went to the gallery night event where many of the art galleries in Retiro and Recoleta stay open late and serve champagne on the last Friday of every month. The event is sponsored by a number of banks and local businesses and about [...]
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The Brazilian Bob Dylan Rocks the Gran Rex Theater, Buenos Aires
Caetano Veloso doesn’t look like a rockstar. He resembles more a middle-aged tourist… And he doesn’t dance like you’d think a Brazilian rockstar would… instead his onstage moves were more like those of a drunk accountant at a wedding. But he and his band absolutely rocked the Gran Rex in Buenos Aires.
Most of the songs were technically impressive with [...]
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Lifestyles of the Middle Class and Anonymous
The Argentine peso is one of the few world currencies that has lost ground lately to the US dollar. Canada, Europe, Russia, Asia, even Brazil… virtually everywhere is getting more expensive for American visitors as the US dollar slides…
As a middle class American you can live well in Argentina… but only if you continue to [...]
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Back in the Saddle Again
We’ve been working and traveling heavily of late… which has cut down significantly on our posting… But we’re going to fight this trend and do our best to start posting regularly again.
We enjoyed our trip to North Carolina, it was familiar, easy, and relaxing… plus great to see friends…
But we’re happy to be back in [...]
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Sweet Carolina
We attended our good friends’ wedding this weekend in Asheville, North Carolina. It was well worth the trip. The wedding was held on the grounds of the Biltmore estate in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains… It’s the largest private home in the US, at 150,000 sq feet, and is still owned by the Vanderbilt family.
George Vanderbilt, the [...]
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Castellano Hopes Dashed Amid Walls of Dust
It’s been a surprisingly cold winter here in Buenos Aires, not just for us, but for Portenos as well. It’s been one of the coldest on record… of course, it’s not that bad, but does take us delicate Floridians by surprise…
Anyway, we’ve been letting you down this past week dear reader, it’s becoming a bad habit [...]
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131 Years of the Buenos Aires Herald
At The Walrus English bookstore in San Telmo, our better-half picked up a copy of the historical chronical of the Buenos Aires Herald. This over-sized periodical contains headlines and story excerpts about Argentine history in English since September 1876… this is very useful for us to have a general idea of what’s been going on [...]
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Schoolhouse Palace
Oh dear reader, we’ve really failed you this week… We’ve had to neglect our blogging duties in favor of more seemingly pressing day-to-day affairs…
But to bring you up-to-date… The weather got cold, we caught a cold. The next day the weather warmed and we recovered… We’ve been semi-diligently attending our spanish classes. One off-site conversational session [...]
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Culture Clash and Free-Market Farming
One of our contacts here is a New Zealander involved in real estate. He reports to us that there is a phenomenon of Kiwi farmers selling off their farms in New Zealand and relocating to take-up farming in South America where the costs of land, labor, and expenses are lower.
One favored location is Uruguay. There are [...]
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Mysterious San Telmo II
We’ve written before about the perplexities of San Telmo… and during our time in BA we’ve visited there quite a few times, and we’ve talked to quite a few who’ve lived there… (we’re by no means experts, and as always, we won’t let that stop us from pontificating) but we still have no resolution on [...]
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Argentine Literary Giants
As part of our onging sincere, yet lazy, efforts to gradually immerse ourselves in Argentine culture… We’ve decided to only read the giants of Argentine literature, who we’re embarrased to say we haven’t read before, like Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sabato, Julio Cortázar, and Aldofo Bioy Casares. [And some Márquez too, though he's not Argentine.]
So far we’ve cracked into [...]
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#2 on Travel+Leisure’s List of the World’s Best Cities… Buenos Aires
Travelers voted Buenos Aires the second most desirable city to visit after Florence, Italy… While we find that an impressive coup for this south american metropolis, it’s not surprising. The longer we stay here the more we like it…
Hasta la proxima.
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