Recent content by mobri1130

Forget the recipe, please post an invitation to the next dinner! ;)

Love, love, love them.

Interesting screen name...a movie character who is an armed bank robber.

Pumssi is right, the handbags and shoes are to die for!!

If you're fond of fashion from the 80s, you'll love the shopping here.

Friends don't let friends dance drunk...oh wait, yes they do and they get it on video! :D

Great suggestions. To Miles' list I would also add Velma Cafe in Palermo Hollywood.

Someone told me that it has a modern look (I guess after the earthquake more contemporary structures replaced destroyed ones?) but that it still has a small town feel to it. Is that true? Also, are the outdoor activities such as windsurfing close to the city center or are there hotels and the...

Considering a trip to Mendoza and wondering if anyone has visited or know anything about the town of San Juan just north of there. Any info appreciated.

3 a.m. is not a good time to be walking in any urban area. I think someone else on this forum once referred to it as "stupid o'clock in the morning." I would add that Palermo Hollywood is not a 'safe' area. It's still very rough.

While I don't disagree that La Boca can be a tourist trap, there are two very important museums there: Museo Benito Quinquela Martin and PROA. Both are worth the trip down there (via taxi) and any visit to BA for art lovers would be incomplete without a stop there.

Sorry Canick, but Canadian bacon has nothing over Irish bacon. I hesitate to even call the Canadian version 'bacon'...those thin, round, dry discs remind me of Spam. No offense intended. The Irish version is a heavenly slab o'bacon with just a bit of fat still left on it...Mmmmmmmmmm! :D

I may be a Yanqui, but I have to agree with Liam. The bacon they serve up in Ireland is the best in the universe.

Touché Napoleon :D So let me update my expat references a few decades after Prohibition and another group of expats in Europe: 1950s/60s Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Jim Morrison, Nina Simone

Historically speaking, expats have often flocked to cultural centers, not necessarily poorer countries. Think Hemingway and Fitzgerald in Paris.