http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/ Our adventures in Argentina with Mika (3.5 yo) and Camila (11 mo) en-us 2006-01-28T04:05:56-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_22.html#001905 Hey, I'm actually blogging about today! Imagine that! I may once again catch up! Yeaaay!!! Ok, OK, Mike still hasn't finished writing up this weekend, but if I finish today imagine all the peer pressure he'll have to finish off... Places mike 2006-01-28T04:05:56-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_15.html#001899 I made a point of waking up by 9 am that morning, thinking that the guy who was going to measure the windows may come. Alas, the guy didn't come and Camila woke up early as well. Mika, OTOH, was... Places mike 2006-01-18T20:37:34-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_15.html#001898 After the events of the night before, we all woke up fairly late on Tuesday. So much so that we didn't make it out of the house until nearly 11. Mike had told Gladys that we'd meet her in the... Places mike 2006-01-18T20:30:45-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_15.html#001897 I trust that Mike will finish blogging about the weekend, and I'll raise ahead and start blogging about this week. The days have been pretty quiet and I have 2 1/2 days to get through so I'll try not to... Places mike 2006-01-18T20:27:19-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_08.html#001896 After we woke up, Betiana arrived with facturas and I took a taxi to get the rental car, a Suzuki/GM Fun three-door compact car. Unfortunately, the gas tank was only half full, not full as we were told the previous... On the Road mike 2006-01-10T01:59:46-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_01.html#001895 It's 9:30 AM. Everyone is sleeping. I've been up since 8 am. I've had my facturas, simple pastries mostly filled with dulce de leche which I buy at a store on the first floor for $.25 each. I still don't... Places mike 2006-01-07T00:41:28-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_01.html#001892 Woke up late, everyone at once. Breakfast. We were sunburnt and Mike went out to get lotion, didn't find any but reported that indeed, it was a warm day. He was reluctant to go to the beach but I wanted... Places marga 2006-01-06T14:43:56-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_01.html#001891 Woke up early. Blogged. Camila woke up. Nursed and read one of the books I'd bought the day before. It's actually a Spanish translation of an English-language book on the massacre of Tandil, whereas a group of gauchos murdered 36... Places marga 2006-01-06T14:37:30-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_01.html#001890 It was cloudy on our first official day in Mar del Plata. Cloudy and windy. So much so that after breakfast we decided to go shopping rather than hitting the beach. We still had several things we needed to get,... Places mike 2006-01-05T23:45:45-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_01.html#001889 We arrived in Buenos Aires soon after 6 am. The kids had rested quite well. Camila, in particular, had slept very well in her seat and only woken once during the night. I, unfortunately, had great problems sleeping. It wasn't... On the Road mike 2006-01-05T14:31:38-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_01.html#001888 We took a taxi to the aerosilla but it was still closed. This was after the tourist office told us it would be open after 12pm. So we hiked to the main street and catch a bus (3 pesos each)... Places mike 2006-01-05T14:29:12-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_01.html#001887 Growing up, I'd heard a lot about Carlos Paz. It was the alternative vacation destination to Mar del Plata and the other beach cities in the Atlantic Coast. Those plays and baudeville-type shows ("revistas") that didn't travel to Mar del... Places mike 2006-01-04T15:13:31-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_01.html#001886 We woke up relatively early that Friday, but between showers, breakfast and what have you, we didn't get out of the hotel until past 11 am. Then we spent over an hour at a nearby pharmacy trying to get Mike's... Places mike 2006-01-04T15:05:28-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_01.html#001885 Ask any Cordobés and he'll tell you that Córdoba is Argentina's second city. I'm not sure if that's in terms of importance, population or sheer size but I do know that Rosario, in nearby Santa Fe province, disputes that title.... Places mike 2006-01-04T15:01:49-03:00 http://www.voxpublica.org/argentina/archives/week_2006_01_01.html#001884 I had one reason to go to Tucumán, and one reason only: to see la casita de Tucumán, the not-so-little house where Argentina's independence was signed in 1816. I'm not particularly sentimental about historical places, and I know little enough... Places mike 2006-01-04T15:01:12-03:00