To be honest, the thought of a tourist bus has never sent shivers of excitement down my spine. Three hours on a bus packed with camera-happy people while wearing enormous headsets and listening to someone tell me about monuments that I was going to forget the name of five minutes later was not really my idea of a good time.

Veteran director Francis Ford Coppola returned to Cannes at it’s opening today for the first time in 30 years. Coppola won the Palme d’Or for ‘Apocalypse Now’ in 1979, and it is now with ‘Tetro’ that he is making a remarkable comeback.

The age of the traditional city coach tour has definitely been and gone. La Bicicleta Naranja is part of a growing trend of new school, eco-friendly city tours, where groups of tourists and porteños alike cycle across the city on luminous orange bicycles. So much for blending in.

Paso Han arrived in Buenos Aires in the beginning of December last year with one aim, to dance tango and learn Spanish. Now seven months later he is becoming a real porteño, dancing tango like Gardel was behind him, whipping him.

Toxic chemical residue and methane gas bubbles are a thing of momentary concern to most tourists who pass the end of the 64km Matanza-Riachuelo river, on their way to the vibrant buildings that make up Caminito, in La Boca.