Hi there! Pickle Deli Square is a collection of my experiences living, eating, and traveling the world. Currently an expat based in Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
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I saved the best of the best for last. And the worst of the worst. All from South America...
After posting about Taksiyarhis Pensiyon in Ayvalik, Turkey, I realized that I haven't really posted other reviews of my accomodation. I'll be posting about my previous lodging experiences from time to time, hoping I can be of some help to others planning trips...
Total trip time was 17 hours 30 minutes. Sounds grueling, but I actually enjoyed it all!
#1 best meal: The steak here is all it's cracked up to be. Everyone says that Argentina is all about the beef, and beef is truly the one meal that stands out the most...
After almost nine full days in Buenos Aires, I left town for my next stop Iguazu Falls. I was really sad to leave, because I've grown to really love Buenos Aires, and can definitely feel like I could live here. Here are just a few reasons...
Colonia really reminded me of Hoi An in Vietnam. Both are Unesco World Heritage sites, both are by the water, both have low, historic buildings, both have tourist-to-local ratios of 10:1...
I had been wanting to take a day trip from Buenos Aires to Uruguay to check out the Unesco World Heritage city, Colonia...
Mate (mah-tay) is one of those things everyone has to try when visiting Argentina. It's a traditional drink, that my Spanish teacher says is a communal activity - you have friends over, and pour some water, a friend drinks some, you pour some more water and give the cup to the next person, etc. (sort of a personal hygiene nightmare for me, but that's just me)...
I've had a chance to try empanadas a few times so far, and the last couple of times, I noticed that some places have a system for labelling their empanadas by flavor.
Last night I went to a restaurant I scoped out my first night here - even at 10 and 11pm, it was lively and full of people. Plaza Asturias on Avenida de Mayo.
I've mentioned before that my favorite type of food has got to be casual snack-y food, like dim sum, samosas, things like that. So not surprisingly, I've still not had the Argentinian steak dinner but have had a lot of other casual eats.
I find that the street signs in Buenos Aires are a lot more pregnant with narrative, compared to the ones I see in the US...
Today I had planned on going to Colonia, Uruguay for a day trip, but unfortunately the return ferry was fully booked! I knew there was a Sunday market in the San Telmo neighborhood, so I went to check that out instead...
After Galerias Pacifico, I went over to the waterfront where there's Resavera Ecologico Costanera sur, a nature preserve that's sort of marshy and is supposed to have a lot of different birds living in it or flying through it...
