Oasis Collections, founded in 2008, has long established itself as the frontrunner in its field of upmarket real estate offerings across South America. Their late 2010 opening of a clubhouse in the heart of Palermo led to a buzz that was nothing short of spectacular.

The Mule Pool is a marketplace where people who travel often can connect with people who want stuff from other countries, and could be just the answer to your prayers for Baked beans, Hershey’s Kisses or Vegemite.

So you are in Buenos Aires for a long-term stay and decided to apply for a job. After various failed attempts and particularly long Google translator sessions, the task becomes almost infuriating. But don’t panic. The Audiovisual Translation staff may just save the day.

Apart from tango, pimped asados and prolific mullet wearing – street art is another area that Buenos Aires does rather well.

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.

A stroll down the Rosedal in the Bosques de Palermo on a Sunday afternoon will almost certainly include an encounter with a group of freestyle slalom skaters practising their latest moves. Ultra-cool and strangely mesmerising, the slalom skater is hard to miss. With a row of miniature cones lined up on the pavement, he dances his way around them, snaking in and out with incredible ease and true skill.

In a tiny barber shop in Villa Crespo exists the domain of one particularly unique, larger than life hairdresser, philosopher and matchmaker extraordinaire. Meet Julio Pan, hairdresser to the footballers. The front of Julio’s eponymous emporium is plastered with signed photos of footballers whose hair he has carefully coiffed.

Following in the footsteps of Paris, Rome, Tokyo and Berlin, for the second year running, the Buenos Aires government has brought the beach to the city. From 8th January until 28th February, the banks of the Río de la Plata play host to the ‘Buenos Aires Playa’, an oasis for porteños and visitors alike who have not fled the sweltering metropolis of BA in search of respite on the Uruguayan and Brazilian shores.