Otro Aires: Live Tango Music from Buenos Aires

Otro Aires live tango music from Buenos Aires and the world tango festival.

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Corrientes Carnaval on Avenida Corrientes Buenos Aires

Avenida Corrientes is the Great White Way of the southern hemisphere, like New York's Broadway in the center of Buenos Aires, the theaters' neon lights shine light on the wide avenue illuminating even the darkest night to white. Running from the famous Buenos Aires Obelisk, Avenida Corrientes is not only full of theaters and lots of light, it also includes restaurants like pizza places and parillas serving the Portenos favorite foods.

Avenida Corrientes establishments do not include peep shows, instead book stores nestled between the theaters and restaurants open right onto the street 24 hours a day full of people browsing beautiful books about art, culture and history. The Portenos are known for loving their steaks and pizza, but it must be noted that a Portenos day is incomplete without the digestion of some cultural manifestation too.

And who would need a peep show in Buenos Aires, or Argentina for that matter, where the beauty and elegance of the human body is celebrated by its artists and tango dancers on every street.

Among other things, Argentina is known for its beautiful women who openly celebrate their beauty and sexuality by the way they wear the latest fashions and with the public displays of affection on the subway, in the streets, and between bites of pizza and steak. Last Saturday night the province of Corrientes, which is known as not only the home of Yerba Mate, but also the home of the most beautiful women in all Argentina, brought its cultural beauty to Avenida Corrientes for a pre-lude to Carnaval. And by the sights of the women dancing Carnaval, it may just be true that yerba mate is the secret to the beauty.

Corrientes is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region. Corrientes means "currents" or "rapids" in Spanish. Corrientes is surrounded by Paraguay, Misiones in Brazil, and Uruguay. The popular Argentina tourist destinations Entre Rios, Santa Fe and Chaco provinces also surround the region of Mesopotamia, Argentina.

Corrientes beautiful women did not disappoint Saturday evening, who danced Carnaval down Avenida Corrientes dressed in nothing but feathers. And the Portenos who love to come out for culture were delighted by the drums, music and dancing down the Avenida Corrientes. Argentina continually celebrates all its cultures, as the Corrientes Carnaval shows is a testament to all the fun and excitement to be had when celebrating culture. Corrientes, like most of Argentina, is manifestly European in its customs and traditions.

Experienced Carnaval travelers and Carnaval tourists who have visited Carnaval in Brazil's Rio di Janiero and Italy's Venice often rank the Corrientes Carnaval as the third best Carnaval in the world.

Take a look at Motorino Man's video of Corrientes Carnaval on Avenida Corrientes. And if you are looking for a new Carnaval experience in the southern hemisphere, think about traveling to Argentina's Corrientes Carnaval.


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Buenos Aires Travel - Sunday with Ravioli Casera & Malbec Roble

Sunday in Buenos Aires is reserved for homemade pasta - pasta casera - as homemade pasta is called in Buenos Aires. Many people in Buenos Aires have family who were from Italy 100 years ago. Today the Buenos Aires traveler will note all the Portenos enjoying a lovely Sunday Italian lunch with family, friends, and some famous Argentine wine.

We reserve the Canernet Sauvignon for the lomo and bife de chorizo when it comes off the grill while opting for the Malbec Roble with pasta.

Below is a picture of Bucatini, a long pasta like spaghetti but with a hole that runs right through the center like a straw. The bucatini is not only a Roman favorite pasta, it is a favorite of the Portenos too. In Rome the people love to eat Bucatini all'Amatriciana and in Buenos Aires the people also enjoy Bucatini too, but with a tuco sauce - the tuco being like a pomodoro red tomato sauce.















This Sunday we are opting for Ravioli casera, homemade Ravioli rather than bucatini. Portenos love their Ravioli, gnocchi, and pastas equally so be careful getting between a Porteno and their various pasta love affairs.

As for the Malbec Roble, the roble means the wine was aged in a wooden cast rather than in a copper container as is so common today among the mass wine makers. Roble preserves the true taste of the aged grape and if harvested correctly, during the full moon, then the chemicals harmful to the body of the wine and poison to the wine drinker is naturally extracted and the grape naturally creates chemicals that preseve it unlike the pressurized copper containers in which unnatural man made chemicals must be added to create the wine.

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Buenos Aires Parillada: Where Los Portenos go to Eat and Meet

Buenos Aires is full of neighborhoods to explore. In each neighborhood (barrio) you'll find a local parillada, a restaurant that serves grilled meats, delicious pastas, and vegetables.

Motorino Man enjoys traveling to new cities but must admit that he finds it difficult due to his normal diet, which consists mainly of organic fruits, organic vegetables, and free-range grass fed meat and chicken. In North America it is difficult to eat in restaurants where most of the food comes from industrial manufacturers that loads the elements with chemicals, pesticides and other un-natural ingredients,which makes it very difficult to digest and does not make the Motorino Man's engine hum. In Buenos Aires, howver, Motorino Man finds the food easy to digest and finds his internal engine well-oiled.

Here we are in Barrio Norte, wearing short sleave shirts and enjoying the sun during what is supposed to be winter, at our families favorite parrillada that is like an extension of the family kitchen. Here the asador (grill master) and waiters ask about the family, know exactly what their customers like and how they like it cooked and are professional pleasant servers making it a joy to go see them as many as five times in a week, every week! And besides the hosts you'll typically run into the same people from the barrio day after day eating lunch and dinner.

A typical Parillada in Buenos Aires serves a hot plate full of all kinds of cow parts not commonly eaten by North Americans, as well as French Fries (papas fritas), sweet potato, wine, and salad. People from North America traveling in Buenos Aires who do not like the exotic tasty parts of the cow can enjoy lomo, which is beef tenderloin or filet mignon, and bife de chorizo, which like the New York strip.

How to Dance Tango: Buenos Aires Tango Lessons

Everytime Motorino hits Buenos Aires he heads out at night to a local milonga club for tango lessons. This sensual dance is contagious in Buenos Aires and it is so much fun to learn the steps. Learning the steps is not easy, as Motorino can attest after years of coming to Buenos Aires he is now just graduating to the intermediate level. Tango, like the Portenos outlook on life, is about gracefully exercising options in order to navigate the dance floor without intruding on other's space and more importantly, on the dance partner's space. Enjoy this video of last night's Tango teachers doing a demonstration before Motorino's Tango lessons.

Today we off to the International Tango Festival running in Buenos Aires, which runs through August 30.

What's New Buenos Aires

Wheels up at 7:22 it was beautiful flight, clear winter skies in southern hemisphere made views of southern cross and the milky way haze incredibly brilliant: a sky of brilliant diamonds.

No bumps - just smooth air all the way to wheels down in Buenos Aires at 4;55AM. Took about an hour to clear customs with another plane from Italy with us - I thought of whipping out my maroon passport but smartly went with USA, which saved about another 30 minutes as it seems they were checking all the Italians' bags but when I showed my blue they waved me through....

Family, friends, food, and of course leather shopping for jackets, shoes, and handbags will be the main activity when we are not tangoing down las calles of Buenos Aires.

We are off to the parillada for bife de chorizo, chori pan, sorrentinos, pomodoro, malbec, and then bailaindo while we discover what's new in Buenos Aires.