British pop punk band got a sold-out La Trastienda in a whirl, an intimate venue in Buenos Aires neighbourhood San Telmo.

After trying — and failing — to be a stunt double in the UK, Hugh MacDermott worked on two estancias then ended up riding around Argentina with his horse Pancho — for two years.

Essex-born DJ Darren Emerson isn’t sure whether he’s coming or going. Chatting over a few pints of London Pride conveniently enough in a pub in the British capital, he says: “I think I’m playing Buenos Aires at the end of June.”

Times have been tricky thanks to a national lockdown on socialising and swine flu during winter 2009, and I have been wracking my brain and burning the midnight oil to come up with some fabulous ideas to keep you amused during these complex times.

Pop-punk boy band McFly played La Trastienda in June 2009. Concerned that these youngsters hadn’t finished their secondary education, I set them a quiz about Argentina. How did they fare?

Spectators in the Peninsula Valdés in Chubut province welcomed the southern right whales at the end of May when they reached their winter migratory destination of the Puerto Madryn and Puerto Piramides coast line.

Feel like you’re in Ibiza via online TV

A little piece of Spain that’s not even in Buenos Aires’ Little Madrid neighbourhood

Charity fashion fundraiser at the Uruguayan embassy