If you read my last story on Buenos Aires you will know how I fell completely head over heels in love with the place, so it was with great excitement that I returned there in December.

This time I was lucky enough to stay at the Sofitel, a hotel that hits your senses on every level. As you walk through the grand entrance lined with bay trees and covered with a glass atrium roof, the smell of bergamot wafts around you and you know you have arrived somewhere very special. This is a most stylish hotel with a traditional Argentine bar with leather sofas and a library. The thing I was most impressed with though, were the beds - absolutly huge and so comfortable with duvets both on top of the matress and on top of you - bliss!

The Sofitel is conveniently situated for the shopping area around Florida Street and this is indeed a shopper's paradise. Your money goes a long way here as you find yourself going crazy buying leather handbags at a fifth of the price of home! Eating out too is incredibly cheap. Five of us went to dinner in the fashionable Palermo Soho district and had a three course meal with wine for £10 a head!

Of course no trip to Buenos Aires would be complete without a vist to a tango show and this time I did it in real style at Esquina Carlos Gardel. This is perhaps the most elegant of the tango show palaces, built over the location of "Chanta Cuatro" -- a restaurant where Carlos Gardel used to dine with his friends. After an esquisite three course meal with unlimited wine, the show begins with the orchestra playing tangos, and then opens up with a powerful and emotional rendition of Carlos Gardel's signature song, "Mi Buenos Aires Querido". The setting itself is completely delightful. You can almost imagine it is 1930 with Eva Peron in the audience. But the highlight has to be the dancers. To see tango performed by the best in the world is just amazing and guaranteed to get you vowing to sign up for classes the minute you return home!