Visit Souvenir pop-up shop for all your holiday season gift ideas. Open until 24th December in the heart of Palermo, it’s ideal for original and quirky gifts.

Anyone who has ever tried to “google translate” their way through a beauty treatment is already aware of the difficulties and occasional shame that comes along with styling lost in translation.

Spring is here, Buenos Aires is heating up, and everyone is already thinking about where to go in the summer. But how do you shake off the effects of all the malbecs and milanesas that got you through the winter?

Buenos Aires has long been regarded as one of the hottest international destinations for gay tourism, as the opening of the city’s first ‘Pink Point’ gay tourism information centre proves.

“Museums in Europe are beautiful, but they’re very closed off. They’re like cemeteries. (The Hudson Nature Reserve) shouldn’t be a dead museum.” These are the words of Ruben Ravera, curator of the William Henry Hudson museum and nature reserve are located to the south of Buenos Aires, just outside Quilmes.

The largest mosque in South America is improbably located across the street from the gambling mecca of the Hippodrome and right next to the shopping center containing Easy and Jumbo in Palermo and the train station, 3 de Febrero. This impressive but hauntingly empty complex is the King Fahd Islamic Cultural Centre.

Whether you are a hardcore yogi or a curious beginner there is no shortage of yoga classes in Buenos Aires. Walking around Palermo or Barrio Norte, it sometimes it feels like you see a studio on every block. But if you want to get in on action, yet still don’t feel confident following instructions in Spanish, there are now two classes on offer especially for English speakers.

A few years ago, the idea of working from anywhere just by connecting to the internet would have seemed ludicrous. But with advancements in technology, it’s not unusual now to see young professionals who need nothing more than a laptop and the internet to earn a living.

“You have to get out of your mind,” says Candice McAdams, participant of Water Dance. “You have to learn to trust and surrender, to connect with yourself and others.” Marcel takes his clients on a spiritual journey around a heated swimming pool, and cites the benefits of his sessions as being “personal growth, development of consciousness and relaxation”.

The Casablanca Polo Shop in Recoleta is the venue for my meeting with Katharine Pottinger, general manager of the Buenos Aires branch of high-end ‘lifestyle concierge’ service Quintessentially, which has offices in over 34 countries and employs around 1,000 people globally.