City vehicle carrying European lad around river (6,5)
I believe the answer is:
buenos aires
'city' is the definition.
(Buenos Aires is an example)
'vehicle carrying european lad around river' is the wordplay.
'vehicle' becomes 'bus' (I've seen this before).
'carrying' indicates putting letters inside.
'european lad' becomes 'sone' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'around' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'river' becomes 'aire' (I've seen this before).
'sone' written backwards gives 'enos'.
'enos'+'aire'='enosaire'
'bus' going around 'enosaire' is 'BUENOS AIRES'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for buenos aires that I've seen before include "South American captial" , "Capital city -- uneasier sob (anag)" , "Sabine roues (anag) -- Spanish-speaking city" , "Capital of Argentina" , "South American capital" .)