To celebrate the long holiday weekend here in Argentina & the U.S. (as well as my return to blogging about Buenos Aires) the 4 Days in Buenos Aires app for iPhone is free for this weekend. And, ...
A friend of mine says, “The most heroic task of a parent is getting their child to sleep each night.” Ah, that’s a challenge. Mila & I have our routine. It’s changes ever...
The inactivity on this blog was largely due to my absence from Buenos Aires for 2010 & 2011. I spent that time down on the coast of Argentina in a very small place called Mar del Sur, which prov...
Without a doubt, Recoleta Cemetery is the most enchanting spot in Buenos Aires. Even after dozens of visits I still discover a new aspect: a tomb gone unnoticed or the slant of light through stained ...
My personal recommendations (a tiny guidebook, if you will) for enjoying 4 perfect days in Buenos Aires: also available as an app for iPhone. You also can use it on your iPod Touch or iPad. So, take ...
One of the things that keeps me too busy to blog often here is my work with The International Literary Quarterly, also known as Interlitq. One of the exciting developments with the literary journal o...
Having returned earlier this month to Glasgow, the city of his birth, to attend the launch event for 40 Glasgow Voices, published recently in Issue 10 of The International Literary Quarterly or, as i...
Merely checking to see how this picasa->lighbox plugin works….BTW, this photo was taken very early one morning back in 2005 in the neighborhood of Once.
Time to pause and read a bit of Borges on the 110th anniversary of his birth in Buenos Aires: August 24, 1899. If you’re not sure where to start, here’s my top 10 stories by Borges, part ...
I ventured inside a bookstore on Av Las Heras and was surprised to see on the front table an unexpected set of fiction works: a 3 volume collection of stories by H.P. Lovecraft (here in Spanish trans...
Long-time readers of this blog know that our Buenos Aires home was on the border of San Telmo and Barracas. But since last November we’ve been staying at a place in Recoleta. A short-term house...
Our house in Mar del Sur is under renovation. We plan to move to the coast in December, right in time for the Argentine summer…yeah! That means I only have a few more months to enjoy the city o...
Ceci & I launched a new phase of our Buenos Aires adventures today with the purchase of a house in Mar del Sud We’re not totally abandoning the city life for a cottage by the sea…at ...
Casual conversations often lead to unexpected discoveries. The other day I walked over to Palermo to have coffee with Peter Robertson and talk about future plans for The International Literary Quarte...
Last night I took a taxi from Recoleta out to Liniers, a barrio on the southwestern edge of the capital district of Buenos Aires. I tend to think that I know Buenos Aires very well, but in the cab ri...
I was recently contacted by the folks at Miniature Studios about their new Spanish language learning product Bueno, entonces. [Disclaimer: Miniature Studios did provide me with free access to the pro...
For those travelers among you that use Kindle, this blog is now available via Kindle. I haven’t used Kindle but my understanding is that blogs via Kindle can be downloaded to your Kindle and re...
Just an update on some writing things involving some expats that have a home in Buenos Aires…. Peter Robertson & I have released the latest issue of The International Literary Quarterly. L...
Mid-term elections are coming up quickly & if you live here then you can’t escape the media blitz by all the politicians. Even today when I went to my RSS reader and opened up the San Fran...
This afternoon Ceci & I met up with Robert to stake out a spot on Av Callao to watch the funeral procession of former President Raul Alfonsín . After the procession many in the crowd flowed onto...
Not a very good quality photograph but shows a festive Plaza de Mayo for Christmas 1898.
Hey fellow bloggers - the affiliate program for the e-book guide to 4 Perfect Days in Buenos Aires is now open. As an affiliate you earn 40% of each sale of this e-book that is sold via your blog or ...
Argentina is on the 2009 priority watch list of the International Intellectual Property Alliance. Sounds ominous sharing the list with China, Pakistan, and Russia. But, oh, wait, there’s also C...
Till the end of the month (March 1, 2009) there’s a little photo exhibition at Centro Cultural Recoleta that is worth viewing. Featured are photos of the city between 1870-1880. Many of the pho...
A companion to last week’s photo.
A proposal before the Argentine congress aims to bring the remains of Jorge Luis Borges from his burial place in Geneva to Argentina where the writer would be interred in the family vault in Recoleta...
Okay, yesterday’s little rain shower wasn’t a flood but I’m sure all of us in Buenos Aires enjoyed the cooler weather. Reminded me of this wonderful old photo, which I think was tak...
Ever since hearing that New Directions Publishing was releasing an English translation of César Aira’s Los Fantasmas (Ghosts) in 2009, I’ve been searching Buenos Aires bookstores for a ve...
In preparation for Argentina as the guest of honor country at the 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair, the government of Argentina is announcing a new program to subsidize the translation of 100 books by Argent...
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