1. Am I Paris or Buenos Aires?
2. What about this - Paris or Buenos Aires?
It is said a picture is worth 1,000 words. Luckily, I took many during our trip to Argentina two weeks ago, and feel it’s about time to share a few more. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves today!
…But, because Mondays aren’t discombobulating enough, I’m going to play a little game with you. Last year, we visited Paris. This year in Buenos Aires, I kept experiencing flashbacks to the sidewalks, windows, doors, cafes, floors and even motor bikes that I saw during my visit to Paris. So – just for fun – I’m going to throw in a few Paris photos with this post. See if you can guess which city is which!
3. Magnificent white building
4. Pretty tiles on this building
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. – Jorge Luis Borges (author from Buenos Aires)
5. Cathedral
6. Cathedral
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. – Ernest Hemingway
7. Potted plants
8. And some more potted plants
Eva beware of the city
It’s hungry and cold can’t be controlled
It is mad
Those who are fools are swallowed up whole
And those who are not become what they should become
Changed
In short they go bad…- Evita (lyrics from the musical)
9. Versailles, or the Teatro Colón?
10. Versailles, or the Teatro Colón?
Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. – Eva Perón
11. Marie Antoinette's personal retreat near Versailles, or a home that Eva Perón purchased for her Foundation as a homeless shelter for women?
12. Marie Antoinette's personal retreat near Versailles, or a home that Eva Perón purchased for her Foundation as a homeless shelter for women?
So, how do you think you did? Could you distinguish the two cities from these photos? Actually, despite having been to both cities and having taken all of the photos, I still had to double-check and triple-check several of these pictures during the making of the post to be sure I knew which was which.
The following answers, therefore, should be accurate! 1: Buenos Aires, 2: Paris, 3: Buenos Aires, 4: Paris, 5: Paris, 6: Buenos Aires, 7: Paris, 8: Buenos Aires, 9: Teatro Colón, 10: Versailles, 11: Versailles (Marie Antoinette’s Le Petit Trianon), 12: Buenos Aires (Evita Perón’s home, once purchased by her personally as a shelter for homeless women and their children; now the Evita Museum)
I matched up pics 1, 3, 6 and 8 but thought they were from Paris. Oh well, if you are gonna fail, might as well fail miserably!
Sounds like a good try! You’re right that the four pictures were all from the same city, at least! It’s surprising, isn’t it?
Que bien hablas de mi cuidad¡
That well you speak your about my city Buenos Aires.
me encanta tu ciudad! So much spectacular history and art present throughout the city. I can’t wait to go back sometime!
Ya hablas bien español. Que bueno¡¡¡
I wait that your you could continue visiting Buenos Aires.
Thank you very much for answering so rapidly. We will be in contact.
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Love this, I got most, but for the pot plants and the cathedral,; but then I’ve been to Marie Antoinettes home near Versailles and stood in that very stairwell and I’m also an architect – so I had a lucky break. Looks like I should come an visit B.A too.
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