- Beginning of the journey in Buenos Aires: in the neighborhood of "La Recolta" Sophie meets Pauline who manages the tea house "Chez Pauline": they drink maté, a symbolic beverage in Argentina: then they visit the neighborhood of San Thelmo: a bohemian and nostalgic place: a lot of antiques shops, the famous restaurant "Desnivel" and then they go to Palermo Viejo: on a place 40 painters are showing their painting (Sonia Kovalivker explains the advantages of this exhibition every Saturday and Sunday).Then Sophie goes to the neighborhood of La Boca: two important things: the tango and the soccer.Sophie buys a soccer ball and goes to the stadium of the Bombonera, where she kicks the soccer ball and says loudly "goal".Later Sophie goes to Tigre, a town built on the delta of the Parana river with many houses on stilts : she visits near the port the bar "El Taller" and she talks with Eugenio Ramirez (the bar owner ) and Daniel Schneck (guitarist) about the José Luis Borges who wrote texts about this neighborhood and and about Carlos Gardel.Finally Sophie goes to the "Confiteria Ideal" , a famous tango dance hall , talks with Viviana Sousa and Facundo Rodrigez about the tango and dances tango with Facundo. Besides we see interesting zooms about the economic crisis of 1998-2002 and the new energy after this crisis (the new luxury hotels of the Faena group, Veronica Fiorini , a fashion designer, about the garbage collectors (El Ceibo Cooperative ), about the urban art (Pum Pum ), about Marc-Antoine Calonne, a French man who became gaucho in Patagonia and also Céline Renault who manages the Estancia Santa Thelma, about the glacier of the Perito Moreno (where tourist can walk with crampons on the glacier), about the soccer ( the inhabitants of each neighborhood are supporter and fan of the team of their neighborhood and about the polo (a growing sport in Argentina).—zutterjp48
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