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I was in Miami on Sunday when Argentina played Mexico. I was told there was only one place for me to go: Normandy Isle, a northern part of Miami Beach known as Little Buenos Aires.
Miami sunset / Flickr photo by Slack12
My guidebook noted it was a big area for Argentinian immigrants, yet still nothing prepared me for what I found.
Argentinians are patriotic at the best of times, but take them out of their homeland and it is a locura (madness). Every car had flags waving out the windows. There was celeste and white as far as the eye could see. There was a band beating drums. It was livelier than any world cup street scene I’ve experienced so far in BA.
Want proof? Above is a (very rough) video I took in Manolo’s, an Argentinian fast-food restaurant.
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Exploring Miami’s Little Buenos Aires
I was in Miami on Sunday when Argentina played Mexico. I was told there was only one place for me to go: Normandy Isle, a northern part of Miami Beach known as Little Buenos Aires.
Miami sunset / Flickr photo by Slack12
My guidebook noted it was a big area for Argentinian immigrants, yet still nothing prepared me for what I found.
Argentinians are patriotic at the best of times, but take them out of their homeland and it is a locura (madness). Every car had flags waving out the windows. There was celeste and white as far as the eye could see. There was a band beating drums. It was livelier than any world cup street scene I’ve experienced so far in BA.
Want proof? Above is a (very rough) video I took in Manolo’s, an Argentinian fast-food restaurant.
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