“Fort Apache is not actually the real name of the isolated ghetto that lies four miles to the north of the centre of Buenos Aires. A journalist first coined the phrase after a shoot-out in front of the local police station in the early 1980s and it has stuck ever since. Most of the 30,000… Read More Fort Apache
“Well they have loved to wander, Their feet they have not restrained.” – Jeremiah 14:10, Old Testament Bible Buenos Aires – The reason for the trip out to the west was simple. Pizza pilgrimage. Recommended by several locals as “the” place for a “true porteño pizza experience”. Touted by numerous commenters on places like Guia… Read More The (Not So) Wild West
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.” – Frederick Douglass, Author, Abolitionist Buenos Aires – It’s been a week with lots of color and interesting little sights. Just a litte Friday photo session… Everyone’s been posting lately about the jacarandas being in bloom,… Read More Colors!
“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.” – Benjamin Franklin Buenos Aires – It’s not uncommon here to see restaurants claiming to be El Rey (the king) of this or that, but I’ve seen few that claim to be the Empire. Nonetheless, in response to a recent review… Read More The Imperial Pizza, and Walking it Off