Stories and News of Expat Life in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Looking for something different to do? Need to get some aggression out? Have an old pillow lying around? Well, we may have just the thing for you – Pillow Fight Buenos Aires 2008 (Lucha de Almohadas – Buenos Aires 2008). Today, November 22, 2008, at 6pm in the Bosques de Palermo at the Dr. Benjamin Gould Planetarium … Read more
Welcome to the first of a weekly series highlighting some of what I consider to be the more interesting news from Buenos Aires and Argentina. I find many new things every week and often want to blog about them, but realize that I don’t always have the time to get to them. Hopefully, with these … Read more
As we previously reported, Google Maps for Argentina launched yesterday. After some initial testing, we found that the site works pretty for mapping address, but it is still missing some useful features and still has some quirks to be worked out: Driving directions from point A to point B are unavailable (Google says it needs … Read more
Unfortunately, work has once again taken over a major part of our lives for the past few weeks, so we’ve been a bit slow on posting any new updates. I’ve got a few drafts started, but they’ve been on hold while we try and juggle these other projects and Spanish classes. Let me tell you, running … Read more
As of Monday, November 17, 2008, that big blank space on the photo at the right should be a bit more filled in like our neighbors in Brazil. That’s right, after a long wait, Google Maps is finally coming to Argentina. When I was back in NYC, I pretty much used Google Maps on a weekly … Read more
One nice thing about numbering all of the Random Observations is that we know exactly how long we’ve been here, and wow, 12 weeks goes by really quickly. Some of our new and improved random observations now include photos! Enjoy… Random Observations: Week 11 & 12 Spring is definitely in the air here. The weather is getting … Read more
Marco, our Spanish tutor, sent us this video today and what do you know, I can actually understand all of it! I’m not sure what he’s trying to say about how our lessons are going, but the video is pretty funny.