http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/ Welcome to Been there. Your tips on the places you know - that you love, live in or have just visited - are what make this guide. http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/33492 After doing the ritual midnight celebration, we then ate dinner and drank fernet (a herbal Italian spirit which has been adopted by Argentines) until around 3am. At this point we decided to head to the planetarium which lies in the Bosques de Palero (the Palermo forest). Here there was an enormous crowd of all ages, dancing with their fernet by the beautifully lit planetarium. I was unsure as to why everybody had sunglasses at the ready. When it got to around 7am it hit me, the blinding sun rose from above the trees and the crowd went wild! Slowly the crowds headed towards shade as the night turned into a hot summer's day, and at 9am we went home on the bus with the commuters. During this journey we narrowly avoided being struck by a flying bin which had been loaded with dynamite, but explosions aside it was an amazing experience and a brilliant start to 2012.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/33492 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/31863 La Bomba takes place every Monday night (who cares if there’s work the next day) and is a popular, often sold out, percussion frenzy at Ciudad Cultural Konex, an old open air converted oil factory, and costs the equivalent of about £5.
It is essentially two hours of madness where a group of 17 quick handed musicians take to the stage, and over the course of the two hours their drumming gets louder and faster. As you would imagine, this consequently affects the audience who are taken along for the ride in the form of hypnotic drum beats. It is all improvised, yet conducted through different hand signals, and you cannot help but be mesmerised by the sheer talent and co ordination.
Let me stress, La Bomba is not for the feint hearted. As the drumming gets louder and faster, the crowd reacts a little crazier. If there was ever a more poignant moment for the expression “if you can’t beat them, join them”, this was it. We found ourselves caught up in the excitement, jumping around, all inhibitions lost. By the time it was over, flip flops had been lost, and bodies were sweat drenched; all in the name of drumming! At 10pm the crowds started to disperse and it was off to work the next day. Only in Buenos Aires!]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/31863 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/30990 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/30990 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/30989 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/30989 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/30729 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/30729 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/25910 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/25910 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/5845 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/5845 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4056 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4056 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/2958
There's also a fabulous Addidas shop and then there are great bars for afters. For girls I reccomend Mishka "shoes for princesses". But there are a host of others, particulaly "Lupe". Most importantly check out the Palermo maps, they are the bible.

Music wise nothing beats the clubs and record shops in Europe, but Make sure you check out Club 69, Thursdays at Niceto (from 1am for me the best club in South America... and I've been to loads) make sure you stay for the show at 4am, and also Rumi (bit posher but still good) on Wed night.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/2958 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/417 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/417 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/5846 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/5846