[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

Buenos Aires Info, News and General Comments

• Quite a few of us Buenos Aires bloggers got mentioned in Clarin this week! And we got really quite excited about it! And who can blame us?
• Maya picks up on the news that there is a new environmentally friendly light rail train running along a stretch of Buenos Aires’ newest barrio, Puerto Madero. I’ll have to go and check that out soon…
• It wasn’t actually in a blog, but I found this interesting article from Conde Nast Traveler about the new, non-traditional, creative Buenos Aires that is attracting visitors not just in search of tango, steak and gauchos…

Buenos Aires Restaurants, Food and Drink

• Oliver Hartman of Argentina’s Travel Blog continues his recent trend of alcoholic reviewing tendencies, this week stumbling around Palermo to take in the off-the-beaten-track bar Kim y Novak, and the more well-known pulling (in terms of both draft beer and people) spot, Unico bar. And I also joined in the Palermo-based alcohol-related fun by posting up a review of Acabar in Palermo Hollywood
• Oliver’s co-writer, Danielle, also gives a good review to the Bar 6 restaurant in Palermo, a funky eclectic restaurant which she gives a resounding thumbs up to
• Ken bravely faces up to his first Argentine parrillada, lymph glands and all… mmmmmmmmm…
• Dan marches onwards like the trusty food hound he is, reviewing the Sante Bar in Barrio Norte, which does okay but expensive eclectic food, and Anush, an Armenian restaurant in Palermo Viejo where the lunch was really not up to scratch - he goes on to recommend the nearby alternative Cheff Iusef for some better middle eastern fare
• I should also mention, for those of us (like me) living or staying in and around Barrio Norte, that Dan put up a useful page of listings for Food Shopping in Barrio Norte. Cheers Dan, as a newcomer to this area of BA, I will be checking many of those places out in due course…
• Diva does a short and sweet review of Bangalore Pub and Curry House in Palermo, which I can add a wholehearted recommendation for, as they offer the types of curry and beer that I dearly miss from home

Funny or Odd Things in Buenos Aires

• Dan put up a great picture of a statue with an interesting expression he came across in Parque 3 de Febrero, Palermo
• Robert posts number 35 in his series of stencil graffiti in Buenos Aires, with more of the these weird and wonderful pieces of street art
• Diva clearly writes half her posts with an eye on appearing in the ‘funny or odd things’ section of this roundup: Tattoo Artist Sued Over Penis Tattoo Prank… no silly comments from me needed for that one! You might also want to know that if you get killed on one of Diva’s tours, you get a refund

Buenos Aires “Meme” Update

• The Buenos Aires Sexy Spanish Club’s Maya joins in on the ‘five things’ meme, and we learn about the time when she ate carrots from the same plate as Ozzy Osbourne! We are still eagerly awaiting her ’sexy day in Buenos Aires’, as part of the ‘Perfect Day in Buenos Aires‘ meme I started…
• But while we’re waiting for that, Isabelle Lagarde of Argentina’s Travel Blog has come up with an interesting post about a day for lovers in Buenos Aires, which wasn’t part of my original meme, but fills a gap until Maya has finished her ’sexy day’ research (wow, can’t believe I didn’t make a silly attempt at innuendo there!)

Thanks once more to everyone for reading this Buenos Aires Blogs Roundup… hope to see you all here the same time next week!
And an even bigger thanks to those that go to the hard work of writing all the great blog posts about Buenos Aires that I link to each week in the roundup. Really, thanks guys!