Country Archive
Forget Buenos Aires
Date: 11/27/2006If you visit Argentina, you should take at least one side trip out of B.A. If you're into wine tasting and world class dining you'll want to visit the Mendoza wine country.
Read OnBuenos Aires in the Spring
Date: 11/26/2006Buenos Aires, now an international travel destination, offers good value as well as the seduction of living in a bygone, slower-paced era.
Read OnTerroir
Date: 11/08/2006Vicki and I went to a tasting of three Single Vineyard 2004 malbecs. All three wines were finely balanced, with smooth tannins, and the right amount of oak. These wines seemed very flexible to me.
Read OnAmerica’s Cheapest?
Date: 08/26/2006Our man in Argentina, Paul Reynolds, disagrees. “Argentina, not Uruguay, is the cheapest place to spend time on this continent,” he asserted over dinner the other night, “no matter what your editor says.”
Read OnNowhere
Date: 08/19/2006“You can’t help but notice,” I couldn’t help but remark, “standing here, amidst all this majestic beauty, that, well, you’re in the middle of nowhere.”
Read OnCowboy Country
Date: 08/12/2006This is a world-class, though right now unassuming, mountain city, nestled cozily in a gigantic bowl with high peaks all around.
Read OnPalermo Fest
Date: 08/06/2006Palermo Viejo is a lively marketplace for contemporary design, collectibles, antiques, and furniture. No other neighborhood in Buenos Aires offers such a concentrated mix of unique shops carrying quirky items.
Read OnLet it Snow
Date: 08/03/2006I’ve just been ambushed by a hail of snowballs. In making my escape, I got entangled with a bunch of parents making angel wingprints in the snow with their arms and legs.
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