Wherever you look in Buenos Aires there is graffiti on the walls. This ranges from tagging (where kids spray paint their name), New York style graffiti (where they decorate their names) to political slogans or protests, and what is now being called 'street art' by those in the know - murals and stencils which has increased in popularity and numbers over the last 10 years in BA. It's interesting to wander round and see what you can spot, but we were interested to ...

Evita is everywhere in BA, much more than in the other cities we have travelled to the Argentina. She is a particular favourite of current (pro plastic surgery, anti UK) president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. In fact much like Evita, Kirchner splits opinions of Porteños - the free tour guide we had actively disliked her saying she was never at work and more interested in pursuing vanity projects than working for the people. The tour guide at the Casa Rosad...

I think Jon thinks we only came to Buenos Aires because of the football. In fact I think it's the only reason he agreed to come to South America in the first place. He had grand plans to go to a game in every country but hadn't realised we would be doing most of our travelling in the mid season break that runs from December to February across the contintent. So far we had only made it to a game in Ecuador, although he's watched a few on TV to make up for the d...

Porteños - or 'people of the port' as the residents of Buenos Aires are known - are said to be Italian people that speak Spanish, take most of their cultural references from North America and want to be English. It's considered no surprise that with such multiple personalities 90% of them see therapists. Buenos Aires had a massive influx of immigrants from Italy and Spain in the 1880s, and feels more European than South American. It's one of biggest tourism dest...