Aeroparque & Palermo

This is a blog that simply describes some places where i go running/ jogging. I'm lucky enough to live in a very nice part of Buenos Aires, and a not very known one.

Aeroparque is the local airport, where locals flies take place (the international ones get to Ezeiza airport, far from the city). Palermo is the neighborhood of Buenos Aires where several places were left natural, and they are known as the Bosques de Palermo or Palermo Woods.

The pictures were taken on Sept. 27, 2005, one of the first days of springtime, at noon so there were not too much people in the streets.

Hope you like it.

Some nice buildings at La Pampa street.

This is the back of the golf court, the Club the golf. We'll see it later [Mental note. Why do you speak in plural?] 

Some nice buildings. The thing at the front used to be a gas station but they closed it.  

Behind this trees there's a lake, el Lago de Regatas. We'll get back to it.

Avenida Figueroa Alcorta. A fast way of leaving the city. On the other side of the road is Aguas Argentinas, where they clean the water from the river and send them to people's houses.  

La Pampa and Figueroa Alcorta. The sign with the "enes" is not completed (someday will read "Origenes").  

The bridge over Lugones. 

The beginning of avenida La Pampa, at avenida Lugones. I turn here to get home.  

The bridge over Lugones. I like it very much. Aeroparque is on the other side.  

Avenida Lugones, a fast way to get downtown. On the other side is Avenida Cantilo, the continuation of Avenida Costanera, the one that borders Aeroparque.  

This is the only plane that took off while I was there with my camera (when I don't bring it with me I see hundreds).  

The side of the bridge. If you urinate here people from Lugones avenue don't see you, but the ones circulating by Costanera avenue do.  

Just to make sure I took these pictures. I was tired and sweaty.  

Another runner, in front of me.  

This is an entrance to Aeroparque... As you can see, it is not extremely guarded...

A cool restaurant called Clo Clo. You sit there and you can watch the planes coming and going. My ex was crazy about going to have lunch there but we never went.

Starting the run.  

Another view of avenida Costanera, there are a lot of restaurants in that part of the avenue.  

A sign asking people not to drop garbage because it may get into an aircraft jet engine.  

Avenida Costanera, the one next to the river.  

A triangular building. Don't really know what it is.  

A fashionable disco.  

The Aeroparque (over the fence).  

Here it is, the river. El Rio de la Plata (the silver river).  

Behind the column there's a choripan cart. A choripan is a sandwich made of chorizo (pig sausage) and, well, bread (pan).

A typical tree from the Pampas, the ombu, which in fact is not a tree. Its wood is very soft so the only usefulness known to man is that it gives shadow.

The river, Rio De La Plata. It is, as far as I know, the widest river in the world. On the other side there's Uruguay, but I thing it's more than 200 kilometers away. The Spanish conquerors thought it was a brown sea with non salty water. 

Argentinean Post Office at Aeroparque.  

Getting close to the entrance of Aeroparque.  

The entrance to the first parking lot.  

Taxi cabs in Buenos Aires are black with a yellow ceiling.  

Typical taxis formation.  

This "temporary sidewalk" has been here for years... It connects the airport with the secord parking lot, terminal sur.  

A little park in front of Aeroparque, next to the river.  

The exit of the parking lot, people pay at those windows (far away).  

Another typical choripan cart.  

This guy with wings is a conmemoration of the flight of the Plus Ultra, and hydroplane that flew to Buenos Aires from Spain it the 30's (very risky thing).  

Avenida Costanera. That long dock belongs to the Club de Pescadores, the fishermen's club.  

Well, well, well, look what I found. This plane says "Republica Argentina" and doesn't belong to an airline. This is the presidential plane, called Tango 01, the T-01. ("Tango" is the name for the letter T in aeronautic language. It was chosen as the most known word at the moment beginning with the letter "T". Since tango is from here the presidential plane was called Tango 01)

A little Air Force plane. 

I just LOVE this ad campaign. They show a white spot hanging from a rope and the shadow on the back tell you it's a t shirt... You can't actually see the t shirt because it is SO white that it blendes with the background white wall. (It's from a clothes soap).  

Years ago a plane crashed at take off... It belonged to the LAPA airline. Many people died. The statue says: They didn't fall, they died.  

Club de Pescadores.  

Aeroparque. The little Air Force plane is ready for taking off.  

Avenida Costanera.  

That little white thing on the sky is a helicopter. It's a military one, belonging to the Prefectura, they are in charge of the security and control of rivers.  

The entrance to Punta Carrasco, a complex with clubs and bars and conference centers. The LAPA plane that crashed was close to destroying this place. 

The entrance to Circuito KDT, a bicycle track circuit and a sport centers. It belongs to the city government.  

Another view. 

The planes at Aeroparque.  

Another entrance to Aeroparque. The workers get in using this gate I think. 

The railroad tracks that run next to Aeroparque. Some employees are picking up the trash.  

Sarmiento avenue (Avenida Sarmiento). The bridge is a little highway called Autopista Illia, it gets to downtown very fast.  

A view from the train tracks.  

Sarmiento avenue, another bridge (that carries the train tracks).  

This is the intersection of Lugones and Sarmiento. All the trafic that doesn't take Autopista Illia turns to Sarmiento. There's no traffic light in this crossing so if you are jogging you should go by the other side of the avenue or cross when the transit stops. A big building belonging to Aeroparque in the back. 

Beneath this bridge it's The Roxy, a world famous night club.

Another lake, the one surrounding El Planetario. 

Avenida Sarmiento. 

El Planetario, the planetarium.  

Those white spots are swans...

The Monumento Al Libertador, in front of the Planetario.  

The Monumento Al Libertador, at Figueroa Alcorta & Sarmiento.  

Figueroa Alcorta Avenue.  

Another lake, el Lago de El Rosedal (the garden of roses... There's a garden of roses next to this).  

El Rosedal, notice the ice cream vendor on a bicycle. (These are the first days of spring, in summer you see many more).

This is a famous place, the bridge at El Rosedal. People take cheesy pictures here.

Two bridges carry the train tracks over avenida Figueroa Alcorta. I always liked this place.  

The second bridge. There's a white Mercedes Benz crossing beneath it. 

A train was passing by the bridge. 

Figueroa Alcorta. 

That is the entrance to the old Velodromo, the track for bicicle races. Not open to the public now.  

That building across the street is the Club Hipico, where kids and adult learn to ride horses.  

A beautiful fountain. I've seen people using it to go to the bathroom.  

The crossing of Dorrego and Avenida Figueroa Alcorta. This is a difficult one to cross when you're jogging. Lots of lanes.  

Anothe bridge, and a garbage truck. 

Do you feel like betting? This is the Hipodromo, the horse race tracks. You can watch the race just by standing on the sidewalks, but you can't bet. I guess they build it close to the Club Hipico so kids can get a job as jockeys fast. 

Dorrego avenue.  

The crossing of Figueroa Alcorta and Dorrego again. 

Figueroa Alcorta 

Figueroa Alcorta avenue goes North (while Libertador goes south) but at this spot is both ways, there's a little lane against the traffic.  

Avenida Figueroa Alcorta goes on, but I change my course. Look ahead, you won't see this much grass anywhere else in the city... 

The little road across the Palermo woods called Intendente Pinedo.  

That building at the back is Le Parc, one of the most expensive and maybe the tallest building in Buenos Aires.  

Nex to this place, at the other side of the rail tracks, is the Hipodromo, the horse race tracks. These structures are for filming the races (I guess...) 

Not the Manhattan skyline but some buildings... I guess they were trying to repair that brown fence... 

That (in the back) is the stadium of the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club (BALTC). Many Davis Cup matches were played here as well as the Buenos Aires Open tournment.  

The club is called Lawn Tennis Club, but the courts are made of clay... 

Another view of the BALTC stadium... The name of the club is written on the fence.

Another lake... El lago Regatas, (well, this is the first one I pictured).  

A little boulevard. This separates the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club and the Club de Golf. 

We arrived at the golf court, the Club De Golf. This one belongs to the government (and many local people have no idea this thing exist...) 

The Club de Golf fence. 

This ditch is next to the BALTC, and I think in how many joggers and bikers fell into it and broke a leg... Well, maybe I'm exaggerating.  

This is the nice, old-fashioned building of the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club. 

The railroad cross at Olleros. If you want to go to the hipodromo or to a Davis Cup match you can always take this train...  

Another nice building belonging to a tennis club... ADR, Asociación de Deportes Racionales. The cars are waiting for the train to pass, there's normally no transit there.

The road that goes round the golf club.  

An artificial-grass 5-to-side footbal court, tennis courts and some buildings.

Former tennis champion Guillermo Vilas now has a classy tennis club in Buenos Aires, in front of the golf court. This is the entrance. How much does it cost to be a member? A lot of money, as far as I know... 

Another view of the golf club. 

The golf court again. 

A cute little bar called Bardélico... (Bardelic... Bar + psichodelic). It is part of... A tennis courts complex. (Lots of those as you can see).

These are the new seats recently built for the football stadium (well, field) of Excursionistas, a very old institution. The government prohibited the old seats made of wood and forced the clubs to build concrete ones.

This is the entrance of Excursionistas. 

Finally back to my apartment... This is where I live