From the monthly archives:

August 2005

Coreana – Take Two

2005.Aug.31 Wednesday

Buenos Aires – There is a Bi Won on Coptic Street in Bloomsbury, London. There is a Bi Won on Liang Ma Qiao Road in the Chaoyang District, Beijing. There is a Bi Won on Conte Verde in Rome. There is a Bi Won on Erie Boulevard East in Syracuse, New York. There is a [...]

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Shark!

2005.Aug.30 Tuesday

Buenos Aires – No, not another adventure like last week’s cyclone. I was around the corner yesterday at the fish market looking for something that looked good for dinner. I’m still not up on all my local names for fish (though I just found this great site for them, search on “pesces”), so I tend [...]

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A Bunch of Dried Leaves

2005.Aug.30 Tuesday

Buenos Aires – I’ve resisted talking about mate (pronounced mah-tey; the name in total – yerba mate) for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, if you’d have asked me not too long ago, I would have told you it tastes like badly brewed insipid green tea. Second, it’s a complicated topic here in Argentina [...]

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Hygenic conversion

2005.Aug.29 Monday

Buenos Aires – My sister commented last night that I’m not posting enough stuff about daily life here. A couple of other friends have said much the same. I guess touristy stuff isn’t enough – people want all those things like doing the laundry, washing dishes, grocery shopping, and other such exciting adventures. So, let’s [...]

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Between a Roque and a Hard Rock

2005.Aug.27 Saturday

Buenos Aires – Yesterday was Maureen’s last day visiting and it was a day for her to get done all the shopping she’d been promising herself all week. By the time we were finished trekking hither, thither and yon, it was 3 in the afternoon, most restaurants were closed. It’s a pretty good bet that [...]

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Tango!

2005.Aug.26 Friday

Buenos Aires – How did he manage to spend two months already in the capitol of Argentina and not write about tango? I know, I know, I’ve heard it. Come on, I’ve at least mentioned it once, maybe even twice. Well, I’ll get back to it in a minute. Yesterday was Maureen’s last full day [...]

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Of Soup and Love…

2005.Aug.25 Thursday

Buenos Aires – Safe and sound back home yesterday there was just no way we were headed out again. Besides it was still windy, cold, and wet. A bowl of hot, steaming soup sounded like just the ticket, so quickly around the corner to the fish market and the vegetable stand and back into the [...]

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Cyclone!

2005.Aug.24 Wednesday

Montevideo – After our two winery visits Daniel took us on a whirlwind tour of Montevideo. Whirlwind was a harbinger of things to come, as I’ll get to in a moment. The city is quite fascinating, and had it not been rainy, cold, and windy, we’d have probably enjoyed an indepth tour. The city ranges [...]

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Pizzorno

2005.Aug.24 Wednesday

Canelón Chico – My friends at Pisano offered to set us up for another tasting at a nearby winery. We’d originally planned on continuing on with our driver, Daniel, to tour a little along the southern cost of Uruguay, and then later into Montevideo. But the weather was quite rainy, visibility was limited, and this [...]

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