January 29th, 2007 by Alan Patrick
[22nd - 28th January 2007]
Well, it’s been quite a busy week here in Buenos Aires blogland. Firstly, my blog now has a new name, with the word ‘Argentina’ replacing the redundant ‘Travel’. This has already seen a marked increase in people finding the site by searching “Buenos Aires, Argentina”, so it wasn’t such a bad decision after all 
Secondly, quite a few of us Buenos Aires bloggers only went and got mentioned in Clarin, the main daily newspaper here in BA. But more of that to come in the roundup, so on with the show…
Things to See and Do in Buenos Aires
- As I seem to keep saying every week, Karine has once again posted some excellent photos of Buenos Aires landmarks, including Plaza Congreso, with a view of the lovely twin red domes of the La Inmobiliaria building & the exquisite Palacio Barolo beyond them, a quaint little antiques shop in San Telmo, some of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo doing their thing in the plaza, the spooky old University of Engineering building in Recoleta (just round the corner from my new apartment!), and in Buenos Aires Province, some crazy pictures of the packed beaches at Mar del Plata - so that’s where all the people in the city disappeared to this month!
- Argentina’s Travel Blog sends one of it’s legion of writers to investigate the many Lakes and Parks of Palermo
- Ken goes shopping in Once, which is recommended if, like me (and I guess Ken too!), your clothing purchase decisions are based more on necessity and price than style or fashion!
- I got off my arse and wrote a little something about the beautiful San Pedro Gonzalez Telmo Church in, you guessed it, the barrio of San Telmo
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January 28th, 2007 by Alan Patrick
The Buenos Aires Argentina Guide - As Seen In Clarin!
Today there is a story in the most popular (I believe) daily Argentine national newspaper, Clarin, about the many Argentine and expat bloggers in Buenos Aires (link, of course, in Spanish).
Thanks entirely to Dalton, this blog got listed in the guia de sitios section (down in the bottom right section of your screens on the Clarin story link). I have noticed a few extra direct type-in visitors from Argentina today, and I guess they found my blog from the Clarin story, so I thought I would say a quick…
Hello Clarin readers!
I hope you enjoy my blog. Sorry it is is not also in castellano - I would try to do that too if I had more time. Honest.
If you do enjoy the blog, please subscribe to get notified of my future blog posts! You can do so by…
Clicking here to subscribe by email OR Clicking here to subscribe by RSS feed
In case you do not want to look around my blog too much, here is a list of five of my more popular posts…
/shameless self-promotion
Other Great Buenos Aires Blogs
By the way, if any Clarin readers are wondering, the lady called “Diva” that was interviewed at the start of the story has her blog here: Buenos Aires Through My Eyes - for some reason her website address was not mentioned in Clarin.
Also, I would recommend checking out the following blogs related to Buenos Aires, which deserve to be on any decent list of blogs about the city, but for some reason were not mentioned in the Clarin article (despite all being better than my blog!):
- Line of Sight - a Yanqui expat who writes a lot interesting posts about the history and architecture of Buenos Aires, and takes some amazing photos
- Saltshaker - the best website for reviews of restaurants in Buenos Aires… although he did get mentioned in La Nacion today, instead of Clarin (about his restaurant de puertas cerradas, Casa Saltshaker)
- Sexy Spanish Club - the sexy side of Buenos Aires
- The Argentina Travel Blog - not strictly about Buenos Aires alone, but it does have a lot of great posts about the city written by travellers visiting Argentina, rather than living here
Anyway, thanks for visiting Clarin readers! Sorry for getting a little over-excited… I have never had anything in a national newspaper before!
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January 26th, 2007 by Alan Patrick
Humberto 1º 340 (between Defensa & Balcarce), San Telmo
[Open Monday - Saturday, 8:30am to Midday and 4pm to 7pm. Sundays, 1pm to 6pm.]
I like churches.
Born and raised a good Catholic boy, I was.
…but that has nothing to do with why I like churches. I’m an agnostic, and instead like them because God generally gets some of the best architecture around. And in Buenos Aires it’s no different. So, this is the start of an attempted series on churches in BA, which may well be spread out over several years, cunningly hiding it’s series-ness from view.
The San Pedro Gonzalez Telmo church (try saying that after a few pints), is also known as the Nuestra Señora de Belén (Our Lady of Belen) church. A good church can never have too many names in my book.
A Little Church History
Some Jesuits named Blanqui, Bautista, Primoli and Schmidt designed the original and kicked off the building in 1734. That makes it one of the oldest churches in the city. But not the oldest, which I’ll cover at some point soon I guess. The church’s architecture was then added to and restored a fair few times up to the present, which accounts for it’s lovely eclectic style. Apparently it is ‘neo-colonial’. I prefer to call it ‘fancy iced wedding cake’:
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January 24th, 2007 by Alan Patrick
Honduras 5733 (between Bonpland & A.J. Carranza), Palermo Hollywood
I’ve been making noises for a while about writing shorter reviews, because I’m sure I bore the hell out of half of my readers. Well, here is my first real attempt at brevity, and a bar review is a good time to start, because generally I can’t remember much about the bars I frequent in Buenos Aires, for fairly obvious reasons…
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January 22nd, 2007 by Alan Patrick
I’ve been thinking for a while that I don’t really like the name “Buenos Aires Travel Guide“.
I mean, for a start, I don’t actual do or write about any travel at all! I just write reviews about Buenos Aires itself, and try to create, as best I can, an online guide for those coming to visit BA. Not much travel once you get here, so that word is a little useless.
And so, I decided to remove the word “Travel”, and replace it with the word “Argentina”, just to make sure no one is confused exactly where Buenos Aires is. For example, I know that George W. Bush is an avid reader of my blog (is that a good or a bad thing?) as he wants to learn more about the place his twin daughters have been visiting, and he almost certainly thinks Buenos Aires is in Brazil.
So Dubya, especially for you, this is the new name of my blog:
Buenos Aires, Argentina Guide
As you can tell, I’m a fan of no-nonsense, descriptive names. “It does exactly as it says on the tin”
On a side note, have any regular readers (that means you, Mr. President) noticed any problems with my blog stalling, loading slowly, or occasionally not loading at all recently? I have seen it a few times lately, and I’m wondering if it’s just me. Please let me know by commenting below - I would really appreciate it…
I hope you all keep reading as a ‘new dawn’ awaits us here at the Buenos Aires, Argentina Guide!
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