Have you wondered lately what the hell Cyndi Lauper has been up to lately? Well, aside from developing some lipstick shades with Lady Gaga, Cyndi is apparently all about serenading air travelers, as she performed two songs live on Friday at the Buenos Aires International Airport. Oh yes, and she's making award-winning Blues music too, but back to the airport singing...

According to the Daily Mail, Lauper was in BA on her world tour for her recent Blues album when flight delays turned the airport into a mess of worried and furious travelers. To diffuse the situation, the airport introduced Cyndi, and she began with her hit "Girl Just Wanna Have Fun," completely without accompaniment (unless count everyone else around her joining in on the refrain). ]]> JetSetCD 2011-03-07T09:01:37-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/11/19/2234/9520

When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!

During a recent trip our friend made to Buenos Aires, he managed to raid the candy aisles and bring us back two very colorful chocolately gifts: the Tita and Rhodesia bars, made in Argentina. We sample them and would go back for more, definitely.

The Taste: Let's start with TIta, because that one is definitely our favorite. The ingredients are pretty basic—milk chocolate over biscuit cookies and dulce de leche—but they come together to form the perfect bite for those nights when you just want a bite of something sweet, but not too much. It's like that, and pretty substantial for the two bites it actually is.

Rhodesia is a tad larger than Tita, but it's got less to it. Where Tita had thicker biscuit cookies inside, this is has wafers with a slight citrus hunt. It also broke apart and got crumbly quickly, so you're forced to eat it all in almost one gulping bite.]]> JetSetCD 2010-11-19T13:15:41-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/7/15/85724/1045

Today, Argentina legalized same-sex marriage, making it the first South American country (and a very Catholic one, at that) to do so. Aside from this being excellent for locals who are ready to take their relationship to the final step, we immediately thought: destination weddings!

For gay couples in America, the typical idea was to run for the border to Canada, have a destination wedding there where it is legal, and head back down into the States as a married pair. And then more US states came over to the rainbow side by also legalizing same-sex marriage, and—ignoring the California crisis—some of the world's biggest powers, too. ]]> JetSetCD 2010-07-15T08:57:24-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/5/17/10327/6139

Travelers who embark on a Weddell Sea and South Georgia expedition cruise with Quark Expedition between November 6 to December 5, 2010 will not only have the adventure of a lifetime, but they’ll also get to watch the documentary film-making process in the best extreme conditions. Ireland’s Crossing the Line Films will be accompanying the cruise and simultaneously filming a doc about the 20th century race to the South Pole. Fancy having your wind-burned face on TV? Here's your chance.

The expedition celebrates the 1914-17 Antarctic expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. After their ship Endurance sank, Shackleton led his men across the frozen Weddell Sea to Elephant Island, then sailed a lifeboat 800 miles by dead-reckoning to South Georgia. There he affected the rescue of his men left behind. One of the men who sailed with Shackleton in that tiny boat was Tom Crean. Crossing The Line’s John Murray says, “Crean played a central role in some of the biggest dramas of Antarctic exploration.” And now you can too, sort of. ]]> cmb 2010-05-17T12:05:38-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/6/25/114013/848

What a day yesterday was for South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who after having been "missing" for five days, turned up deplaning after a flight back from Buenos Aires in Argentina and not the Appalachian Mountains, as his staff was lead to believe. Within hours of being caught on arrival, the Governor admitted to carrying on an affair while away in Argentina and resigned as chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

So aside from knocking boots with a hottie South American woman, what was the Governor up to in Buenos Aires? Five days can't all be spent in bed, and so we've compiled our guide to enjoying Buenos Aires in Sanford style:

Stay: Hotel 1555 Malabia House
As BA's first design Bed & Breakfast, the focus is on intimate interiors, garden spaces, and the historic neighborhood. This are, the Palermo district, is also where Sanford's mistress' apartment is located, so you're just around the corner from the luv guv's little love nest.

Nightly rates here average $170 for a room with private balcony; it's perfect for tawdry kisses and nighttime whisperings like "My heart cries out for you, your voice, your body, the touch of your lips, the touch of your finger tips and an even deeper connection to your soul." We're sure Sanford would have felt right at home chillin the balcony as if he were back on a porch in South Carolina. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-06-25T13:50:13-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/5/1/103941/0889

Hey, Little Italys aren't just for the states.

More than 1/3 of Argentina's population is of Italian descent, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that one of the continent's oldest Italian nabes is found in Buenos Aires.

The main draw of "La Boca" is the scenery, particularly the brightly-painted houses along Caminito, the main street that's packed with artists, tango dancers and all kinds of hawkers every evening. The strip elicits the same complaints as Manhattan's Little Italy—too noisy, full of chintzy souvenirs and too many tourists—but a little further into La Boca, there are some genuine Italian-Argentinean haunts to be found.]]> BS 2009-05-01T11:56:47-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/4/24/14484/1073

· Buenos Aires: Beginning this weekend in the La Rural exhibition complex, the Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires brings over 1 million people together for the Spanish-speaking world's largest literature festival and book fair. Whether you're in the market to beef up your home library, tracking down signatures of your favorite authors or taking in a free lecture, the Feria is fun for all. Fluency in Spanish is of course highly recommended, but then we're sure they'll have language instruction for sale as well. Check out the full schedule for the fair, which runs until May 11, at its website. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-04-24T16:26:43-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/