Tango Dreams

When W. and I were in Buenos Aries for our honeymoon in 2005 I spent half my time gazing at him with goo-goo eyes and the other half of my time with my nose pressed to the windows of real estate offices looking longingly at all the great inexpensive apartments for sale--I was coming from a NYC perspective and $50,000 for a great apartment in a cosmopolitan city seemed too good to be true. I concocted this not very realistic fantasy where we could get a few people together and go in on an apartment. I figured we could spend a few months per year there and have short term rentals when the apartment was empty. I had to be reminded that, alas, we have jobs and it wasn't a very practical idea. Anyway, this article I saw in the NYTimes has totally reinvigorated this IDEA. It's still not practical for our lives but a girl can dream...of the pampas, patagonia, weekend trips to Uruguay, and hanging it all up to learn Spanish, take tango lessons, and work on those paintings and novels.

We stayed for a couple of nights at the Faena + Universe hotel--I'd recommend it. You can't see in the picture above but Simon LeBon of Duran Duran fame (HUGE in my 1980s adolescent world) was doing the breast stroke in the pool just behind me. I think he was trying to keep his tousled hairdo intact. Also, you can't see, there was a flock of deeply tanned totally glamorous Brazilian women lounging poolside right next to us--so in this picture I was feeling rather pale. But Simon was rather pale too so it was okay. Point is: lounging poolside at the Faena + Universe is a recommended activity when in BsAs.

We went for an overnight trip to Uruguay--just a short boat ride from Buenos Aries...old cars, old school charm.


This is an alpaca at the zoo in Buenos Aries--I think he looks like Yoda from Star Wars.

And this is grafitti that was on a wall in Palermo Soho.