Sports & Recreation
Tango at Two/Mercado Del Puerto In the marketplace
Tango began in the early 1900's in Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Beginning in brothels, like American jazz, it was refined and adopted by middle and upper classes, cleaned up and turned into a respectable music and dance form. Dance competitions usually...
Kids Playing Soccer/Ciudad Vieja A national pastime
The sun drops dramatically. In America, kids would be throwing a football. Here, the big dream is to play professional soccer and let your papa sit in a bar with a cerveza and cheer as you make a goal that wins an important game. It is a Sunday and...
Fishing in the Rio Plata Catfish time
One evening, as the sun is falling, it makes sense to stroll down to the water's edge, follow a concrete pier that juts into the water like the end of a fishing pole left discarded by a disgruntled fisherman. The pier is edged with giant stones and this...
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