Clingancourt
Clignancourt
Clignancourt
Clignancourt
Need doll eyes?
Clignancourt
Clignancourt
Clignancourt
Clignancourt
Clignancourt
Clignancourt
Unicorn shop for Bridge
Most amazing chandelier
Terrible photos but this chandelier was astonishing. HUGE and so cool in person!
Most amazing chandelier
Clignancourt
Clignancourt
Clignancourt
Clignancourt
Tool stall
(For Tom)
Our painting
Close-up of our painting
Hello!
Sink for Sale
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Argentina, March 2007
Magic Red Carpet
Awesome plane food
(Breakfast on Tam Linhas.)
Great design
Eyeshade, toothbrush/paste, comb, in a package that slips into a tiny space in a carry-on.
Che Lulu
Colors in the courtyard.
Che Lulu
Our tiny, tiny sink.
Che Lulu
Exterior--no sign.
Buenos Aires
A dog...with glasses?
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Fabulous ladder
Handpainted fonts.
A bottle shrine
(Randomly on the street in BA.)
Lele de Troya
Vine-covered outdoor eating area. We later ate inside in the blue room.
Packaging
Everything I bought in BA was wrapped up or packaged very carefully before I could leave the store.
Journaling
In our tiny room at Che Lulu.
Dog sitting
not walking, so much.
Eyeshades
All the buses had these delightful fringed eyeshades.
Recoleta Cemetery
Recoleta Cemetery
Recoleta Cemetery
Recoleta Cemetery
Recoleta Cemetery
Living resident
of Recoleta Cemetery
Recoleta Cemetery
Recoleta Cemetery
We collect Lions...
Recoleta Cemetery
Buenos Aires
Tall doors, everywhere.
Broken technology
The "global" phone never did work.
Buenos Aires
Saudade
Is a portuguese word for nostalgia for a time you never knew. We feel it frequently.
Buenos Aires
Che Lulu, 2
Our second room at Che Lulu, with a shared bath. Even tinier, but cheerier.
Che Lulu
Che Lulu
Looking down on the courtyard
Lele de Troya
Candlelight in the blue room (we chose from red, yellow, green and blue).
Dinner
Lele de Troya
Casa Glebinias
Our room at the wonderful, wonderful Casa Glebinias in Mendoza.
Casa Glebinias
Casa Glebinias
Casa Glebinias
Cars
There are amazing old cars everywhere in Argentina. This is in Chacra de Coria, outside Mendoza.
...And even old transportation
Ben at Casa Glebinias
Fun chips
I love weird flavors of chips--these are olive oil with cheese and with ham.
Orchard at Casa Glebinias
Casa Glebinias has over 700 trees and bushes on the grounds
Orchard at Casa Glebinias
Orchard at Casa Glebinias
Orchard at Casa Glebinias
Orchard at Casa Glebinias
Orchard at Casa Glebinias
Orchard at Casa Glebinias
Orchard at Casa Glebinias
Orchard at Casa Glebinias
Orchard at Casa Glebinias
Orchard at Casa Glebinias
Orchard at Casa Glebinias
Casa Glebinias
At twilight
Casa Glebinias
Ben and Kate
Walnuts, Casa Glebinias
Romeo and Juliet balcony
Late-night dinner
in Mendoza
Ben, waiting for dinner
Breakfast company
One of the 5 cats (and three dogs) at Casa Glebinias)
Breakfast company
Achaval Ferrer Bodega
On a rare rainy day.
Achaval Ferrer Bodega
Achaval Ferrer Bodega
Circulating the two-day-old harvest during the fermaenting process.
Achaval Ferrer Bodega
Coffee break
Achaval Ferrer Bodega
Pulling the uncrushed berries up for a another run through.
Achaval Ferrer Bodega
Circulating a small batch.
2-day-old wine
The 2007 Chimera from Achaval Ferrer Bodega (very sweet!).
More 2007 wine
Gustavo
Kate and Ben at Familia Zuccardi
Familia Zuccardi kitchens
Familia Zuccardi grills
Familia Zuccardi post-lunch
The remains of the day--there were three of us, but still.
Colonial-era crushing bin
That's a cowhide.
Colonial-era picking baskets.
Wine museum
Ben and the barrels
Barrels
Migrant workers, traveling
Carmelo Patti
Carmelo Patti
Dinner
Trout, caught that morning and later cooked by Maria-Gracia for dinner at Casa Glebinias.
Foothills
The Andes, almost.
The Andes
The Andes
The Andes
Gustavo and a friend
Aconcagua
Such mountaineers
Aconcagua and Kate and Ben
Gustavo, friend and the mounain
A giant's handprint
The Andes
Gustavo
The boys
Awkward.
Aconcagua
Gustavo polishes wineglasses
Before pouring us some Malbec to drink while gazing at the mountain!
No, hold it like this.
Perfect.
The lushiest photo ever.
Hee!
As close as we get to climbing
Kate, Gustavo, Ben
50-cent
Horse
Mule
The Andes
The Andes
Lunch spot, 3200 meters
Foolish quest
Ben and Gustavo are by that beehive chapel thing, panting for breath at 3200 meters above sea level after sprinting up.
The laziest dog.
The Andes
The Andes
Puenta del Incas
Casa Glebinias
Breakfast on the lawn
More company
Give me that sandwich.
Casa Glebinias
Casa Glebinias
La Otra Orilla
Back in BA.
La Otra Orilla
Hilarious translations
Including embezzled asparagus and muffled chicken
Rooftop dining
La Otra Orilla
La Otra Orilla
Old cars
Film crew
Narrowest door
Yet another old car--tiny
And another--huge
Another night, another roof
La Pampa
La Bamba
La Bamba
La Bamba
La Bamba
Lunch was moved due to a freak mosquito invasion.
La Bamba
La Bamba
La Bamba
My horse
Horribly harrassed by mosquitos.
Cattle
From horseback
My poor horse again
Twilight
Friendly horses
But I didn't have treats
Breakfast at La Bamba
La Bamba
La Bamba
Too bad the mosquitos trapped us inside...
La Bamba
Lunch on the lawn, take two
The owner's son
Finally, a normal photo
Congresso, BA
One last breakfast
Bread bike
My favorite bird mansion
In the Mercado de Pulgas.
Mercado de Pulgas
Mercado de Pulgas
Great roofline
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Flea market finds
Goodnight, Buenos Aires
Food: Argentina
A+ Plane food
Breakfast on Tam Linhas, the Brazilian airline. That's a ham/cheese sandwich and it was GOOD. Jolly servingware, too!
Pizza, day one
Onions on white pizza on one side, tomato sauce, cheese, oregano and green olives on the other.
Flan
Very popular--it's on every dessert menu, usually with a bitter caramel.
Caprese
Ben's caprese the first night, with an unknown cheese.
Steak and potatoes
Mainstays of the diet.
Mozzarella Milanese
First course in a 3-course lunch for about $12.
Brownie sundae
Ben's lunch dessert
Weird panna cotta
This was...odd. It was yogurt, really. With weird green liquid and canned peaches.
Cheese in the mall.
Not exactly Pepperidge Farms--this was in a shopping mall.
More mall food
Mall food 3
Faina
Faine (chickpea flatbread) with melty cheese + goat cheese + over-dried tomatoes.
Vegetable risotto
Ben's entree
Lomo Crostante
Steak with a mushroom puree, wrapped in phyllo dough. Wheee!
Candlelight dinner
We were eating in the Blue Room, and the chairs, walls, and candlestick were all this shade of blue.
Ben's burger
.....wow.
Seriously, that's a hamburger.
It's made with beef, ham, fried eggs, tomatoes, lettuce, russian dressing and cheese. And it was GOOD.
The size of his head.
Empanadas
The half-moons are meat, the rounds are cheese and ham.
Inside the empanadas
Fruit trees
These were among 700 trees and bushes at our inn in Mendoza.
(Walnuts)
The star here is the fries
Mediocre tomato tart
One of the few so-so meals I ate.
Circulating a small batch
of fermenting grapes.
2007 malbec, 2 days old
Very sweet.
More 2007 wine
Familia Zuccardi
Empanadas, from left: onion, cheese and meat.
Salads and sausage
Chorizo and morcilla
I have finally met a blood sausage I don't like. Morcilla wasn't my thing.
Steak
Ribs
Chicken
Not-quite-cheesecake
Lots of wine was drunk
(This was all at Familia Zuccardi, at lunch.)
Malbec and Aconcagua.
Drinking wine and gazing at the highest point in the Americas.
Home-style food
Chicken milanese, lentils with rice, plain rice, mashed potatoes.
Salads
Picnic dinner
Breakfast on the lawn
(with the cats)
Airport snack
A "tostada," or thin toasted sandwich.
Caprese sandwich
also in the airport
Dinner on a deck
In Buenos Aires
Lomo with mustard sauce
and stacked potatoes. Lomo is steak.
Something stewed.
Beef, obviously...
Dessert
More Flan
Pasta
Lots of Italian food in BA...
Crepes with ricotta
And weirdly tangy sauce.
Crispy chicken
In a caesar salad--they were coated in sesame seeds.
Mushroom risotto
Another empanada
Fried, this time.
Lunch on the lawn
In the Pampa. Moved due to mosquitos.
Lunch
Pork chops, sausage, salad.
Quesadilla
Ham, cheese, tomato.
Ben's soup
(He wasn't feeling well.)
Chicken with ham
with squash and mashed potatoes--delicious.
Breakfast--La Pampa
Another lunch of pork chops
Breakfast--BA
Faina 2
With cheese and tomato
Back to the beginning
On our final day, another pizza with onions and green olives.
And a final empanada
(Onion and cheese)