Posts Tagged ‘dancing’
Saturday, March 4th, 2006
Even though Uruguay and Argentina share a border and some cultural features like Tango and Mate, they definitely don’t share the same schedule. Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the capitals, could not be more different. We did hear that Uruguay is laid back, but we could not even start imagining how much. While in BA every day of the week every place around would be open till dark and many restaurants into the wee hours of the night; here, in Montevideo, we could barely find an open place to eat or shop on a weekend afternoon.
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Tags: art, dancing, food
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
It is both vibrant and calm at the same time, and I can see why people come here and understand why some even stay. We spent enough time here to say, in all honesty, that if you come here, you’ll never regret it. Be it for the people who dance tango in the park in their sneakers on Sunday, or put on a colorful carnival with drums and flags on a Tuesday night, or the architecture and the nightlife.
O yeah. Also in BA, new and original way for children to ask people for money. $1 will get you a dashing portrait and the fuzzy warm feeling of helping an aspiring artist.
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( Shurik’s portrait )
Tags: dancing, kids, people
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Friday, February 24th, 2006
I think I jinxed us. I really, really didn’t mean it but I think I did because for the past three days it didn’t stop raining. Of course, Buenos Aires does not lack in indoor activities, but the rain has made the atmosphere around here sort off depressing. For the next few days all we did is mellow out in the TV/Internet room with some Israelis who were also staying in the same hostel, and slithered out into the wet streets only to find a dry place to grab a bite or sneak in a Tango lesson.
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
It has the hustle and bustle of a large city, but at the same time also the charm of a quiet little town. In parts it reminds me of NYC. It’s just that in NYC you most of the time feel some meanness in the air together with its great energy and power, but here you feel calm and vigor, just like anything can happen.
It hasn’t been two days now and just by walking around we have managed to discover a handful of interesting little places like this tiny book-shop where literature of all sort and kind is held down with antics and strange papier-mâché figures emerge from under tables and shelves and hang from the ceiling. In the shop, apart from dusty books and surreal art, we found three men who were interested in anything but selling books. I asked if it was alright to take some pictures of the store, and the next thing we knew we were invited to try the local Mate, a sort of thick tea drunk from a wooden cup through a metal straw with a strainer on the bottom end. Ingenious.
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Tags: dancing, food
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