Dreams of the distant south

Now, if you've been reading this blog for any length of time, you know I love Toronto. Nonetheless, sometimes I long to get the hell out of town. Owing to a combination of poverty, busy-ness and poor organizational skills, I haven't done much travelling at all, but lately I've been thinking about rectifying that, and about where I'd like to go.

One of my favourite performances at the dance conference was by a company from Buenos Aires. Hmm, I thought. Buenos Aires. Home of Borges, and the tango! I did some Googling, and uncovered a lot of interesting factoids about the city. It is built around a port, and its citizens are called porteños. Did you know there are more psychoanalysts per capita in Buenos Aires than in any other city in the world? That its university has produced five Nobel laureates, and was the alma mater of Che Guevara? Porteños read a lot & they're all night owls, apparently. I think I'd like it there. It's very far away, and I'm still too busy and broke to go anywhere right now, but a girl can dream.

Other porteño stuff I found online:

~ An amazing online magazine called clandestina. I'm surprised I never stumbled across this before. It has sections on illustration and travel photography, featuring work by artists and photographers from all over the world. Stunning, well worth a look.

~ La 2X4 Tango FM 92.7: all-tango streaming Buenos Aires radio station. These people are serious about tango.

~ A whole lot of really great photos on Flickr, some of which appear in the above mosaic. Links to the photos: 1. mirada, 2. vidrio_roto, 3. Carrera de bondis, 4. "la luz inextinguible", 5. Julio Cortazar, 1914-1984, 6. te extraño / i miss you.