Do you...
...love people watching over a cortado (coffee with milk) on beautiful, tree shaded plazas?
...like losing yourself in a labyrinth of old cobbbled streets that are lined with aging mansions and filled with beautiful people?
...find european architecture and the heat of southamerican culture an appealing mixture?
...enjoy an electrifying big city vibe that carries you dancing through the night until the wee hours?
...appreciate good company at home, especially when it comes to sharing dinner, wine and life stories?...dream of learning a sexy language in a sexy city while living the tango life?
...feel that eating only one steak is never enough but still don't want your vegetarian friends to starve?
...get crazy about futbol and wish to be surrounded by a whole country full of people like you?
...find colorful houses in cheap neighbourhoods a splendid idea to lighten up everybody's mood on even the darkest of all days?
...understand jumping carefully down the streets to not walk into dog droppings instead of just walking as an excercice to improve your balance?
...wish to be in a place where 8pm is still the afternoon, days start mellow and slowly and a constant fiesta mood makes everyone smile a little more?
If your answer is 'Yes' to one or more of these questions, just follow the instructions below to become a very happy person:
1. Board a plane to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2. Move into a shared appartment that is home to wonderful, intersting people from around the world. Buy cheap wine, cook lots of Pasta and have it all together with lots of storytelling.
3. Use your first day to stroll around your beautiful quarter, San Telmo. Visit the sunday street market/antiques fair in the main street that runs next to the old mansion that is home to your appartment. Watch a tango show or two at the Plaza Dorrego while sipping on a coffee. To flee the crowds, walk around Parque Lezama and admire the Samba groups that have their party there every sunday night.
4. Enroll in a language school and take great morning classes to learn a beautiful language with a very distinct accent. Try to roll your rs and sh your lls as much as you can to show you're completely in the know. Have fun with your classmates that are travellers like you. Share a great mate and alfajores (cookie sandwiches filled with dulce de leche and covered with chocolate) that your awesome teacher brings in. Talk a bit more to the friendly concierge at the school who doesn't speak English every morning. Feel good about your improvements in Spanish.
5. Walk around the city after class with your new friends. See the microcentro (citycentre) with its super busy shopping street Av. Florida , the famously phallic Obelisco, the seat of the government in Palacio del Congresso and the beautiful Plaza de Mayo with the pink residential palace Casa Rosada that's home to Evita's favorite stage, the balcony. Take a Spanish tour to La Boca to learn about the history of immigration to Buenos Aires, see where Maradona comes from and wander along the colorful but tiny Caminito with its wildly painted houses and tons of artists that display their work. Watch Tango shows at every other corner. Try the famous argentian beef, at a parilla (grillhouse) or in a park from a picnicing family's asado (BBQ).
6.Go home and do your homework from time to time. If not, step 4 won't be so much fun after some days as you'll get lost. But never forget the second part of step 2. If there is just not enough time for homework and dinner - go with the dinner.
7. When the weekend comes around get ready to paint the town red. But don't try to do so before 1 or 2 am. Put on your dancing shoes, grab a cab to Palermo and start in cafes, move on to bars and end up in a club. Don't come home before, well, early. Then go to bed and sleep in.
8. Surprise. When you get up around noonish and feel like you totally overslept and wasted half a day you'll step out and realize: the day has just started for everyone around you, not just for you. Go to a cafe, sit outside in the shade, be lazy and just watch people while enjoying your cafe con leche (latte) with some medialunas (croissants) and a freshly squeezed orange juice.
9. Go on some trips to the outer barillos (quaters) of Buenos Aires. Take the bus there (about an hour) to find that there are more markets, cafes, restaurants, parks and plazas to explore.
10. Decide to stay for longer.
Don't worry. Be happy.
...like losing yourself in a labyrinth of old cobbbled streets that are lined with aging mansions and filled with beautiful people?
...find european architecture and the heat of southamerican culture an appealing mixture?
...enjoy an electrifying big city vibe that carries you dancing through the night until the wee hours?
...appreciate good company at home, especially when it comes to sharing dinner, wine and life stories?...dream of learning a sexy language in a sexy city while living the tango life?
...feel that eating only one steak is never enough but still don't want your vegetarian friends to starve?
...get crazy about futbol and wish to be surrounded by a whole country full of people like you?
...find colorful houses in cheap neighbourhoods a splendid idea to lighten up everybody's mood on even the darkest of all days?
...understand jumping carefully down the streets to not walk into dog droppings instead of just walking as an excercice to improve your balance?
...wish to be in a place where 8pm is still the afternoon, days start mellow and slowly and a constant fiesta mood makes everyone smile a little more?
If your answer is 'Yes' to one or more of these questions, just follow the instructions below to become a very happy person:
3. Use your first day to stroll around your beautiful quarter, San Telmo. Visit the sunday street market/antiques fair in the main street that runs next to the old mansion that is home to your appartment. Watch a tango show or two at the Plaza Dorrego while sipping on a coffee. To flee the crowds, walk around Parque Lezama and admire the Samba groups that have their party there every sunday night.
4. Enroll in a language school and take great morning classes to learn a beautiful language with a very distinct accent. Try to roll your rs and sh your lls as much as you can to show you're completely in the know. Have fun with your classmates that are travellers like you. Share a great mate and alfajores (cookie sandwiches filled with dulce de leche and covered with chocolate) that your awesome teacher brings in. Talk a bit more to the friendly concierge at the school who doesn't speak English every morning. Feel good about your improvements in Spanish.
5. Walk around the city after class with your new friends. See the microcentro (citycentre) with its super busy shopping street Av. Florida , the famously phallic Obelisco, the seat of the government in Palacio del Congresso and the beautiful Plaza de Mayo with the pink residential palace Casa Rosada that's home to Evita's favorite stage, the balcony. Take a Spanish tour to La Boca to learn about the history of immigration to Buenos Aires, see where Maradona comes from and wander along the colorful but tiny Caminito with its wildly painted houses and tons of artists that display their work. Watch Tango shows at every other corner. Try the famous argentian beef, at a parilla (grillhouse) or in a park from a picnicing family's asado (BBQ).6.Go home and do your homework from time to time. If not, step 4 won't be so much fun after some days as you'll get lost. But never forget the second part of step 2. If there is just not enough time for homework and dinner - go with the dinner.
7. When the weekend comes around get ready to paint the town red. But don't try to do so before 1 or 2 am. Put on your dancing shoes, grab a cab to Palermo and start in cafes, move on to bars and end up in a club. Don't come home before, well, early. Then go to bed and sleep in.
9. Go on some trips to the outer barillos (quaters) of Buenos Aires. Take the bus there (about an hour) to find that there are more markets, cafes, restaurants, parks and plazas to explore.
10. Decide to stay for longer.
Don't worry. Be happy.
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