North

Sunday 17 December 2006

This is the only place I've ever been where north is never ever up on the maps. When I first arrived I thought maybe it was a Southern Hemisphere thing, but no, it's unique to Buenos Aires. On nearly all of the maps here, the river is on the bottom of the paper, although the river actually runs along the north east of the city. Because of this, I am so confused about which direction is north when I'm walking around, as I can never compare it to the map in my head.