Posts Tagged ‘Buenos Aires’
April 11th, 2009
Lions and Tigers and Bears…
The Buenos Aires Zoo, or Jardin Zoológico is located in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires. For us it is only a hop, skip, and a jump from our apartment in Palermo Viejo or about 10 blocks. In fact, we walk by the zoo most days looking to catch a city bus or a subway ride.
The city location is pretty unique for zoo’s, but considering it was built almost 135 years ago it is better described as the city of Buenos Aires having built up around it. It sits on 44 acres but feels much smaller and is easily walked in only a few hours. We visited with Gigi on a weekday in Winter and their were a fair amount of people visiting, I would guess that it gets very crowded during warmer Spring and Summer months.
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April 4th, 2009
GLUTEN FREE BUENOS AIRES
I have been eating gluten free for the past 7 years (this is Gina). Eating gluten-free in Central and South America has been somewhat more of a challenge than I anticipated. This has been especially true in Argentina, with a huge portion of the population descended from Italian immigrants. Italian dishes such as Milanesa (either beef or chicken pounded, breaded and fried, usually covered with red sauce and mozzarella) and pasta have become Argentine staples available on every menu in every city we have visited. AND every Argentine adult starts their day with café con leche and medialunas (half-moon shaped crescent rolls) with dulce de leche; a total wheat-fest, which has left me hungry in more than one hotel/hostel along the way! But, in my quest to stay on track and feeling healthy, I have discovered some gluten-free gems that I thought I would pass on to the next celiac or wheat-allergic traveler coming to Buenos Aires. Read the rest of this entry »
February 11th, 2009
After much anticipation the Grandma has landed in Buenos Aires!
Really the plan to meet up with Barbara and Giles was drafted more than a year ago when we found out that Giles had the opportunity to speak at a conference in BA – we have all tentatively planned on meeting up in the city, and things worked according to pla
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Gigi started her personal countdown 4 months out. Each morning she would let us know, 120 days dad. 119 days mommy…
This past week she has been bouncing off the walls and floors (literally) in anticipation of seeing her Grandma! As the days grew closer the spins and whirls and leaps became more frenzied until the day before she was supposed to arrive I thought for sure that she would explode.
We tracked their plane on the internet, checking flight status, but also enjoying watching them chart the same course that we traveled only months prior. Flying over Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, and the border of Peru, Bolivia, and Chile where we spent a couple of cold nights on the Salt Flats of Bolivia. Finally on to Buenos Aires… Read the rest of this entry »
