El Caminito: Buenos Aires’ Least Intriguing Attraction

Sarah Stodola — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 14:10:33 +0000

Every guide to Buenos Aires, and I mean every guide, recommends a visit to El Caminito in La Boca. Many of them even feature the colorful street on their covers, despite an afternoon spent there being the surest way to avoid anything real about culture in Buenos Aires. El Caminito isn’t Buenos Aires; it’s Buenos Aires tourism. Nobody lives in these colorful buildings. The clothing lines are there for effect only. The street itself is a former dump, literally. This […]

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Cat in a Buenos Aires Loft

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 14:25:31 +0000

Like many people in the fall of 2015, we found ourselves under the spell of a heatwave. A number of us had rented a four-bedroom palapa for a few days, up a hill from the beach town of San Augustinillo, in Mexico’s Oaxaca state. It had no air conditioning. By mid-morning each day, we’d make our way down to a modest open-air restaurant on the beach, spend the afternoon in its umbrella’d lounge chairs, then head back up as the […]

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El Caminito: Buenos Aires’ Least Intriguing Attraction

Cat in a Buenos Aires Loft