Buenos Aires: places to have lunch

That I love to visit new restaurants all of you already know, so I could had to tell about three fantastic restaurants that we went in Buenos! I will start with one that a lot of followers on twitter told me about: the famous Café Tortoni! This is the oldest cafe BAs and it is [...]

Buenos Aires: for those that love bookstores!

Buenos Aires has two bookstores that are absolutely sensational: a paradise for those who like to get lost for hours and hours among books… Despite my pile of books to read, that is already unbelievable, I needed to visit both and tell you all about each of them: they are a must see for those [...]

Buenos Aires: amazing street fairs!

If I could name one thing that I love to do in Buenos Aires is to visit the two famous street fairs that take place in the Argentine capital every weekend! On every Saturday there is na amazing fair in Palermo: full of stalls of local handicrafts, leather accessories, and necklaces and rings, and many [...]

Buenos Aires: Home Hotel

I Love boutique hotels!!! They are always more charming and always surprise me more than any other large hotel chain! The service is generally much more personal because usually they don’t have many rooms and this simple detail makes a huge difference!
When I began to plan my trip to Buenos Aires, it couldn’t be different: [...]

NYC Restaurant: Blue Ribbon Bakery

Yesterday I was making a short list of places you cannot miss in NYC and I had completely forgotten about this fantastic restaurant! How could I have forgotten about it?! Though I still have such great memories of this place and thank goodness I remembered about it today (hahaha)… Blue Ribbon Bakery offers one of the tastiest [...]

NY Winter Restaurant Week 2010

I always like to remind people of this event because there is no better week in the year than this one to go out to eat! Every year in late January NY hosts the Winter Restaurant Week: many, many great restaurants of the city participate in this event that offers a selected menu with three [...]

NYC Restaurant: Mary’s Fish Camp (still searching for the perfect Lobster Roll…)

Those that have been following my blog for some time already know that I absolutely love “Lobster Rolls”… My favorite one is from a super charming restaurant in West Village called “Pearl Oyster Bar“! I already talked on and on about this restaurant in the iamleaving2day blog but I promise that my next post will [...]

NYC Restaurant: Tartine

With this first post we are just launching “Cami’s Corner” as part of our new ‘Guest Blogger’ page.
‘Cami’s Corner’ is  a section authored by a friend from college that lived in NYC for a year, but certainly got to know more places than the average resident, given her passion for the city and eagerness to [...]

New Section: Guest Blogger!

Dear readers,
As I had mentioned in the ‘About‘ page of this website, my main objective when building kristraveler was to have one centralized source where my family, friends and friends of friends could use as a reference whenever they traveled to a new place or just wanted to learn more about travel and get some [...]