We've been to the San Telmo fair several times, but this time, feeling very smug that we were learning our way around, we took the bus. As nothing in Argentina turns out to be as easy as it sounds, it was quite an adventure just getting it.Our doorman gave us detailed instructions: go to the corner kiosk and buy the tarjeta (card) that you can then use on either the Subte (underground) or the bus. Then walk 5 blocks to the Subte station, go down the stairs an...

For two months I'd been begging Isabel for her empanada recipe. Si, I will do it, she told me. But translating a family recipe from spanish to english, from metric to our silly cups and teaspoons, from large family gathering to empanadas for two...it was all just too much.So while stopping for a couple of days on our trip from Salta to Buenos Aires, Osvaldo and Isabel had us over for a day in the kitchen.She cooked. I wrote. And while I'm pretty certain I...

Two years ago we were here with friends Bill and Inga from Montana and did a 3 day tour with Angie Valdez we will never forget.  Check here for stories and pictues of our trip through Purmamarca, the salt flats and up into Bolivia: http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/bobnkaren/1/1267740968/tpod.htmlAngie's an amazing guide and friend. We've kept up our friendship and while in Salta this year she invited us to her home for dinner and to meet h...

Dinner at 10:30...we're really getting into this late dinning --even if we were the first people in the restaurant, but by the time the show started the place had filled up.Argentine folkloric, it's called. The music every Argentine knows to his bones --their feet beat out the rhythm--sometimes bouncing in their seats---as they sing along.Dancers literally float across the floor waving their white scarfs in graceful, dramatic gestures that make you wish y...

We go to check out of our room and there's a present and a note waiting for us at the desk. Ayelen, (pronounced Ashlin) wife of the manager we've gotten to know while here, has left us a chilled bottle of water and a thanks-for-being-you note.  We'd been having a lot of fun with this young couple the last couple of days--them and their 3 Musketeer friends. Ayelen speaks passable English so having her around made a world of difference here. She took ...