Feria de libros [books fair] in the Parque Rivadavia, barrio Caballito.

This week’s kiosk. This is a re-post, as I first posted this on in May 2006. This one can be found in the calle Defensa in San Telmo (if I remember well).

The subway union is threatening to go on strike sometimes next week. As one newspapers wrote “…it will be an historical strike.”

When subway strikes happen in Buenos Aires, it’s complete chaos. Well it is the same in any big cities – I’m just glad I work kind of close from home and this does not affect me as much.

Photo from infobae.

Humahuaca is a city in the province of Jujuy, Argentina. It has 11,369 inhabitants. It is widely known for its location at the Quebrada de Humahuaca, a long valley east of the central Andean Altiplano. The women in this picture can be seen everywhere in the village, selling handcraft, woolen things, hats, coca leaves…

Falabella is a Chilean department store chain located in the calle Florida. You’ll find everything you would find in any department store. The Florida entrance is beautiful and inside the store expands over 2 floors.

Great black & white capture of the life in the subte of Buenos Aires by Dul. For those of you who did not check out his blog yet, go to: Chroniques de Buenos Aires. In the subway, you’ll often see young kids juggling and/or selling a few things to buck for a few pesos.

Tango paintings – last seen in the calle [street] Florida.

View of Tigre, on the Paraná Delta, like if we were back in the old days.

Night shot San Telmo near the street Defensa. Have a great week-end everyone!

Tell me about some nice colors! Everything in there look so well-organized and in its place. Amazing!

Dog walkers in Buenos Aires is a big thing, you’ll see them almost everywhere. I already mentioned in an earlier posting that the max. number of dogs authorized here is 8 per walker. I often see more than 8 dogs on leashes, therefore questioning the condition of those dogs. It’s my feeling that dogs walkers should not go after the cash they’re making by having more dogs than they should, but should be more concerned in having less dogs to insure their -let’s say – “wellbeing”. (not sure those are happy dogs on the picture).

I tend to generalize a lot in my postings. I did in this dog walkers posting. Sorry about that.  I had a multiple email conversation with P. the dogwalker who introduced me on what it’s like to walk up to 10 dogs at one time. According to him, the bigger the pack the better. Dogs are happier, healthier, more content than ever, better behaved…For sure it must take a lot for a dogwalker to handle this job, and this is also true that there are highly skilled professional dogwalkers doing a great job with those dogs.

But in this profession like in any others, you’ll always find people who do that for the money. Taking on more dogs, bring in – of course –  more $ at the end of the month. This is a sad reality and I want to believe this is the case even in the dogwalking world.

My mistake was to place all of the dogwalkers in that second category, it was unfair of me to do that. P. the dogwalker proved me wrong and explained me a bit of his profession, what is takes to do his job, and that yes indeed there are dogwalkers well-trained that do this job for the love of the dogs. (I never doubted that, it just that I did not express myself correctly in the first posting – should not have generalized.) 

CIty of Bariloche – commonly called San Carlos de Bariloche. If you wonder where the city’s name comes from, then read the following:

“…the first white man to settle in what is today the urban center of Bariloche was Carlos Wiederhold. It is believed that Wiederhold received a letter wrongly addressed to “San Carlos” instead of Mr. Carlos or “Don Carlos”, this becoming the origin of the name of the town, that was officially christened on May 3, 1902, the date of its foundation. To the name San Carlos, Bariloche was added, being the Spanish distortion of the native name Vuriloche, a word from the “tehuelche” language meaning “different people, from the other side”. [from Enjoy Patagonia]

Books stand and some juguetes [toys] -the Simpsons among others. Look at the top shelf and all the Simpsons toys. Now click here to view our own collection. It’s an old picture, and our collection is bigger. Just love those ;=)