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Xmas in Buenos Aires: Possible or not?

December 21, 2009

It seems to come closer and closer: Christmas!

Well, we have about 30°C here right now, and NO snow. Every day you want to stay at home or to seek refuge from the heat in any shopping center where air-conditionings save your day.

If you didn’t have someone back home in Europe that reminds you of coming Xmas you would probably miss it. You barely find any Xmas decoration in stores or in streets, never mind in homes. There is the Avenida de Mayo where they installed some chains of lights, so did the Panamericano Hotel. The other day we had some lunch in a restaurant that was the big exception. The put lots of stickers at the windows, green garlands everywhere in the inside and a Xmas tree with about 15 presents on the stairway. They put just a tiny decorated Xmas treen in the main hall of the buiding where my old shared apartment was. One day at the Carrefour supermarket I heard some hum in my ears going like this: Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way… and I was thinking: well, they’re not jingling loud enough ‘cos the cashier in front of me is almost falling asleep again; it was already getting dark outside! They installed a big Xmas tree on the square next to the obelisco trying to win the world competition in building the worst Xmas tree. It is a cone-shaped metal scaffolding slightly covered with some white garlands. And at night this tree turns into a disco-something blinking cracy from the inside.

You’ll hardly find any commercial Xmas “junk”. Yesterday I had to rub my eyes ‘cos I couldn’t believe them when I passed a kiosk selling Xmas cards. Well, too late! They won’t get around the world in time anymore! I wonder what’s coming next… maybe Santa riding his donkey on 9 de Julio Avenue causing a traffic jam??

All this bickering shouldn’t bother me at all ‘cos it looks like I’ll “celebrate” Xmas alone this year. I should seize the opportunity with both hands having the kitchen for my own and cook and eat and eat all day and night long!

At least Europe and South America are not that far apart: the freezer just stand on the other side of the kitchen facing the oven!

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Hello Ingo,

My name is Anne Vliebergh, I am a 42 years old woman of Belgium and I have a request for you.

I’m reading with great pleasure your blog because I’m a big big big fan of Argentina. I had the luck
to spend 2 weeks in Buenos Aires in July, together with my friend, a lady of about my age too.

We had the time of our live over there as we have a lots of friends over there and now we were able to meet
them in person. We have received so many enthousiastic reactions when we came home so that I decided to write
down a report of our trip. Afterwards I added some photos to my report…but the problem is that we don’t have
so many photos and we didn’t have such a great camera…so can I use some of the photos on your blog
in my report. Of course I’l mention your name and if you like I’l enumerate the pictures that are yours.

For the moment, the report only exist in Dutch (I’m Flemish). I’m looking at a translater to put it in Spanish
because I have to spread it in Argentina also. I do speak a bit Spanish, but not enough to translate the whole
report. So, if I have the Spanish version, and if you like, I can give you a copy of my report in Spanish later on.

I hope on a positive reaction !

Enjoy the coming New Year !!!

Anne, Belgium.

ingo:

Pics are coming later ‘cos I need to find/buy some new webspace :-/ I’m now (29.01.-18.02.2010) at the waterfalls of Iguazú and Brazil. Therefore the next reports on Uruguay and Brazil are hopefully coming when I’m back again. Sorry!

ingo:

Weather here in Bs.As. is just too hot! It’s 2am and we still have 28°C. There will be 36°C tomorrow. Good that I’ll go to the Jungle where it’ll be 3°C less - but 90% of humidity :-S

ingo:

20.01.2010 concert of Joaquin Sabina in Estadio Boca Juniors, Buenos Aires

ingo:

next small trip to Uruguay (Montevideo & Punta del Este) probably this week (8th, 2010)

ingo:

report & pics of my last trip to Mendoza, Santiago de Chile & Valparaiso (New Year’s Eve), Córdoba are coming soon

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