Tuesday, March 4, 2008
El Ateneo
Now here is something i`ve been meaning to post for quite a while. A long time ago i put up a few pictures of this glorious bookstore on Santa Fe street in Buenos Aires but today i am posting the rest of the photos i have (they are not great but at least they show the building). El Ateneo bookstore is built in an old theatre and the company (a bookstore chain) has renewed the interior beautifully. They`ve done something very similar to an elegant space on Florida street which is also beautiful inside, though significantly smaller. The one on calle Santa Fe is quite famous and in most of the guide books. Probably at least half of the people in the place are tourists taking pictures and having coffee in the cafe, which is where the stage once was. The coffee is overpriced but good and the selection of books is good too (though i lament their small English section...). And they have very comfortable reading areas in the theatre boxes. So comfortable in fact, that it was hard to get Ulala to leave. Ulala and i went to El Ateneo a couple of different times but my favorite was when we went with our friends Ben and Tomoko. It was after a nice long walk through town and the coffee tasted all the better for it. I also bought a great Buenos Aires 3-D guide/souvenir book which i often look over and remember our brief time there. Anyway, before i drift into nostalgia here are the pictures:
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Hi Ian, how are you? Wow, nice photos! I tried to take photos at ateneo many times but they did not come out as good as your photos...
ReplyDeleteWe still go there often and kids book section downstairs is good playground for Miki! She crawls all over the floor and pulls all books off the shelves...Ben and I follow her and fix the mess. She is like a typhoon!(^^)
How are you guys doing in Osaka? Hope your foot is back to normal!
Besos, Tomoko
Hello! The foot is fine, thank you. It only took a couple days of rest to feel better. Now i`m back to doing Tae Bo in the living room. We saw some pictures of Miki on Facebook and she`s growing so fast! Good luck with your move to San Fran. Are you going to miss BsAs? I do. Some things anyway... not the busses.
ReplyDeleteWe watched "Evita" the other day (my first time) and i didn`t like it. The story was kind of interesting but the songs were awful. Oh well.