TOUR AROUND BUENOS AIRES
Hi Anne and readers,
How are you?
Today you’ll have a tour around Buenos Aires. I’ll show you the places that tourists and “porteños” like most.
But first of all, Anne, I was quite interested in your Tuesday blog. I love statistics and especially if they are related to human beings.
Our empanadas are small. Though the pastry is not sweet, you can fill it with something sweet if you like.
And now, take a seat because this blog will be long. Hope you’ll like it.
TOUR AROUND BUENOS AIRES
Corrientes Avenue: it’s where most of the book shops, cafeterias, theatres and “pizzerías”(restaurants that serve pizza) are located. The avenue starts at Madero Port and goes through the porteño town centre and other neighbourhoods. This avenue is related with the Tango.
Palermo Woods: It has 80 hectares and it’s one of the biggest green spaces in Buenos Aires. The porteños go there on picnics or to practice some sports.
Tortoni cafeteria: It’s the oldest cafe of the city that is still open.
Caminito street: There are full of paintings and sculptures on this street. It’s one of the tourist’s and porteño’s favourite places to go for a walk.
River Plate Stadium: it’s one of the most popular football clubs of Argentina along with Boca Juniors his rival.
Boca Juniors Stadium.
The Culture House: it’s one of the XIX century most luxurious buildings of the city.
Recoleta Cemetery: It was the first public cemetery of Buenos Aires. Today it’s the most elegant and aristocratic one. Many national heroes, presidents, politicians, militaries, scientific, artists and celebrities are buried there.
Dorrego square market: it’s the heart of the old San Telmo neighbourhood. It’s one of the fewest squares that are totally asphalting.
Pacific Galleries: Oscar and I love this shopping mall. It’s located on Florida Street (this is a pedestrian street). We frequently go there. There are always a lot of tourists walking along this street.
Malba Museum: it’s one of the most modern museums of Buenos Aires.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National museum of Beautiful Arts): it’s the most important Art museum of the country and it’s among the best of the world.
Obelisco: built as a reminder of Buenos Aires foundation and the creation of this city as the capital of Argentina in 1880.
Plaza de Mayo (May Square) : this is the oldest square of Buenos Aires. It is surrounded by governmental buildings (the town hall, the cathedral, the pink house- National government headquarters, and ministries)
The Botanic Gardens: It has 7 hectares and more than 6.000 vegetable species.
Colon Theatre: it’s one of the main theatres of the world. During the XX century the most important directors, singers and dancers performed there. The main hall is considered to have one of the best acoustics in the world. Its dome was decorated by the painter Soldi.
Did you like the tour?
Now the answers to the readers
Ana Paula, every time we went to Brazil (Río de Janeiro, Bahía, Florianopolis, Buzios) we had a delicious and complete breakfast with coffee, milk, tea, chocolate, cereal, a good variety of fruits, juices, cheese, jam, cakes, sweet puddings and croissants. I thought that this breakfast was what the Brazilian ate. Perhaps it is only served at the hotels. By the way, I want to ask you a favour. Could you give me the recipe of the delicious “bolinhos de bacalao” (codfish rolls)? I tried them while in Brazil and liked it very much. Thank you!
Erika, I hope you pass all your exams.
Torbjorn, what does a lunch packet contain?
Ernesto, it seems that our empanadas travelled to Chile :- ). Ours are very similar to yours but I’d like to try your seafood ones.
Jasmine, welcome to the blog. I’m glad you tried “dulce de leche”.
Vladimir, thank you for your compliments. You made me chuckle about x through men. In Argentina sounds odd too. It’s not very common kisses between men. But there are always exceptions.
Yanko, I was missing you. I thought you might be very busy with your job. I visited Buzios and found a lot of Argentineans too. Hope you can try “dulce de leche”. Keep posting.
Longlong, tell me more about the dumpling in China. Is it like the empanadas?
Well, I’ll close for now Anne and readers.
Have a nice day and don’t work so much.
Fondly,
Cris
Comments
Hello Cristina! Buenos Aires is beautiful!!!
Dear Cristina, Your post about tour around Buenos Aires is so attractive draw attention. This virtual tour of your city makes me very happy. I am about to quit internet connection but in the mean time I checked for your blog and it makes my day happy. Today I visited botanical garden located in Godawari in Lalitpur district which is about If you are interested in various plants, you can visit this site http://www.raonline.ch/pages/np/gal/npgal_godav03.html
Hello Cris, I really loved the tour around Buenos Aires, It is a beautiful city without a doubt, Palermo woods and the botanic gardens sound wonderful places!!! I Like picnic too,but we don't have custom to do it. Have a nice day too and do not work so much you for tell us more about Buenos Aires. A big hug
Hi Cris! Thanks for the lovely pictures. I loved the tour!Buenos Aires is beautiful:-). By the way, this kind of breakfast you´ve had in your trips here is more common in hotels. Oh Cris, I´m sorry, but I don´t have any bolinho de bacalhau recipe. Anyway, I´m going to look for one for you, ok? See you tomorrow, Ana Paula.
Hello Cris, I loved this virtual tour. Beunos Aires is undoubtedly very beautiful and having read about the botanical garden with its 6000 types of vegetables, I can't resist the urge to visit this garden. Actually, I just love gardening. Looking to hearing from you soon. Best wishes, Naheed
Hello again Cris, with your permission, I would like to say thanks to Silwal Kishore for sharing the link with everyone else. bye, Naheed
Wonderful!!!!! Your turn has been wonderful!!! Thanks Mercè
Hi Cris! Of course I like the tour! The photos you have attached are all lovely, and BUENOS AIRES is a nice place, with all the modern and classical design. I especially loved the Caminito street, the building there are so different and colorful. And Cris, thanks for your encouragement, I will work much harder:) Have a nice day, Erika.
Hi Cristi. Tour around Buenos Aires is magnificent, I’ve enjoyed its a few times. As always your blog gives me some pleasant tiny surprises: the White House, the Red Square and finally the Pink House! The reasonable question arises. Is there any other colored venues around the globe? I’m going to say good bye and thanks for all. I won’t have access to Internet next few days until May because my son and me are going to discover wild nature. The Ukrainian’s nature is both rich and divers. Karpatu is one of mountainous regions of Ukraine. There are a lot of unresty rivers running down rocks and waterfalls. One of them is called Black Cheremosh and our team is going to start off on raft. That’s why I have to complete my comments. You are bright blogger and a cheerful woman, be healthy, wealthy and wise. Especial thanks for x, I x you too. Twice.
hi Cris, how are you? That was a great tour around your city . It seems that BUENOS AIRES is a cultural city ,isn't it? when is it founded ? thanks because of good informations ! so long !
Hello Cris. What a wonderful selection of gorgeous views of Buenos Aires. No doubt it's a beautiful city. Your city is a very popular tourist destination for chileans. I've never been there, but someday I'll visit all those wonderful places. I'm sure that might be tons of things you can tell us about those sites. For example, about Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. Good bye.
Dear Cris, The virtual tour of Buenos Airs was spectacular. You have taken facinating picturs and land marks. Thank you Cris, for sharing your life experiences of Buenos airs with us. The city of Buenos Airs is lovely and lively. I think that the mounment of Buenos Airs is a remarkable land mark in Buenos airs.The colonel theatre and its doms are magnificent. I take my hat off for the Artist Soldi.I love Art museum and art galeries. It is one of my passion. Cris, to be honest with you, this is the first time I have learnt about some history of Argentina other than football. Another one of my passion is gardening. I love to watch Home and gardening for 24 hours. Cris,do you have a plan to visit any where during the summer time. Once you had mentioned , that you and your husband Oscar love to travel and you will write about that in future blogs. It is a pleasure to meet you at this blog. My kind regards.
Hi, Cris! Thank you for this trip around Buenos Aires. The pictures are nice. I am also glad to hear that you not suffered from smoke in your city. Hope you are well. Best wishes,
Hi Cristina It's my first time here I'm so exciting. How are you ? Buenos Aires it's a beautiful place we can see that. Sorry about my mistakes [:)]. Bye !!!
Hi Cris, Good picture for all especially the COLON Theater is very amazing look and inner area is too nice, bcos the lighting and ceiling are looks like heaven. Thanks cris.
Hi Cristina, good job with the tour, how did you manage to find all these pictures in a digital form? It is a city that I know. ¿Do you know Montevideo? About food, we have similarities of course, but I think that "empanadas" are not so important here as in Argentina. Good luck
Hi Cris! Here´s the 'Bolinho de Bacalhau' recipe :-). Ingredients: 700g of cod fish; 6 or 7 peeled potatoes( middle size); 3 egg whites; 2 garlic cloves chopped; 1 grated onion(a small one); parsley and salt. Removing the salt from the cod fish: Let the cod fish immerse in cold water for two days( put lots of ice in the water). Change this water 4 times during this two days. NT: It´s better to let the bowl with the cod fish in the fridge. How to proceed: Boil the potatoes till they become soft. Then in another saucepan boil the cod fish with the salt already removed for about 25 minutes. After that, mash the potatoes and carve the cod fish and mixture them with the parsley( put as much as you want), the onion,the garlic and salt. Add the 3 beaten egg whites and mixture all the ingredients very well. Then use two tablespoons in order to make the little balls( bolinhos). Fry them in hot oil till they get golden. Well Cris, I hope the recipe is clear for you because it´s the first time that I´ve written a recipe in English. Thank you for the task :-). See ya, Ana Paula.
Hello Cris. Your town is so beautiful. Thank you for that virtual trip because I have never been to South America. I love travelling and meeting new people. However a journey to Argentina is too expensive for me now, I hope my dream will come true one day.Bye, bye.
Hi Christina Do you like traveling around world? I suggest, you visit my country, Croatia. It's small but very interesting country located in South-Central Europe. We have a beautiful sea, a lot of islands, rivers, lakes, mountains… It's very nice place for tourists. Welcome in Croatia.
Hello Chris, This city is so beautiful. One day hope to travel for Bueno Aires and of course visit the Boca Juniors stadium. Bye
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