Tango and Ash

Buenos Aires finally shined through the thick smoke and revealed itself to us. A beautiful city that now sits on my favorites list. Days have been filled with cultural tours and insaine bargain shopping and nights kicking off with 11:30pm dinner and socalizing to Electronic Tango into the wee hours of the morning. Argentinians are clearly more formal in their everyday lives, men in suits, ties and newly shined shoes and women dressed to the nines and not afraid of furs and panty hose. The days immortalized by Eva Perons insatiable style dont seem to be too far forgotten. It's nice to see folks still try to present themselves formally, a real nice change from the comfort-class most Americans have adopted.

BA lives up to it's reputation as the "Paris of South America" mainly because it was literally modeled after it. After independance was won in 1816, Argentenian's purposelfully demolished all of the colonial spanish architecture and erected french inspired buildings and gardens all over the city. The widest street in the world whisks you through the city like a modern thoroughfare and if you squint your eyes you'd think you were travelling the Champs Elysees into the heart of Paris.

The almighty dollar goes REAAALLLLY far here. Dinner, cabs, clothing cost next to nothing allowing you to spend more money where it really counts...like maybe the Presidential Suite at the Mariott. Wink. Hurry though, because the masses are just starting to figure this out.

Come to Buenos Aires... Call Marcelo and you'll leave knowing everything you'd ever want to know about the city. Highly recommended.