san telmo - what a great place
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 6/9/08
This is a really amazing place, elegant, rough-around-the-edges, bohemian, cosmopolitan. At around 5pm in summer the light changes and the buildings have a great light, a kind of gold. It reminds me of Le Marais in Paris before it got cleaned up - or a less-sanitised version of Notting Hill. There are amazing antique shops everywhere and lots of small theatres, bars, restaurants etc. It's a great mixture of high-end fashion (Pablo Ramirez, Ffioca on calle Peru) and grungier studenty things. Cafes like the Hippotamus or the Restaurant Lezama are like something from Paris 100 years ago.....amazing.