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I love book and collect them (thousands of them — where to put them all?).  I make a point of visiting libraries and bookstores during my travels although sometimes these visits happen by accident.  So it was when I discovered El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore one evening in the Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires, as my wife and I were walking back to our hotel after dinner in a parrillo (Argentine steakhouse).

Buenos Aires is known as the “Paris of South America”.  Many elegant buildings were constructed a century ago when the country was one of the wealthiest in the world, before a string of progressively worse governments destroyed Argentina’s economy.  The result is a city that has a European …

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