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A Good Grilling | David Atkinson | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires

Like any meat-eating male with a bag of briquettes and a penchant for scorching cocktail sausages to within an inch of their lives, I’m keen to my flex barbecue muscles come the first hint of summer.

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Argentina | Barbara Erasmus | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires

The portenos - the residents of Buenos Aires – are the world’s most psycho-analysed people. There are three times as many shrinks per capita as there are in New York

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Buenos Aires | Mark Jolly | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires doesn’t go for the jugular. Its charm is more of slow dance, a game of seduction, to be found in the early-morning markets, mid-afternoon cafés, and the after-hours milongas

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Buenos Aires: Tango Town | John Borthwick | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires

A tango town of once-fabulous wealth and now of nostalgic mansions gone to delicious decrepitude. City of jackbooted generals and the Mothers of the Disappeared, of Maradona and even, briefly, of Madonna...

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City Chic, Buenos Aires | Belinda Jackson | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires

Slicker than baby oil on a lover’s skin, Argentina’s capital is the grooviest place on the planet

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Luxury in Buenos Aires | James Henderson | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires has, by turns, the chic of the Italians, mansards and cobbles from Belle Epoque Paris and a love of dogs and gentlemens' clubs that rivals the British

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Maradona's Manchester | Andrew Bain | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires

Children too young to have heroes ran around the museum in team colours, dad’s football dream their inheritance

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Tango in Buenos Aires | Sue Carpenter | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires

The key thing that differentiates Buenos Aires from Paris (the two often seem indistinguishable) is tango

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Tangopolis | Chris Moss | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires

El tango was the soundtrack, sex organ and soul of the big, bad-tempered port city I’d chosen for home.

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