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Je ne sais quoi!
Let us get back to last November, spring. I was walking on the beach in Cariló with my friend Carla. Strolling alongside the ocean, trying not to get our feet wet, while chatting away. We have a peculiar history together, Carla and I. Our friendship started with a kind of ‘blind date’, after my son…
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What’s another Year
Who remembers me being a Pariah in Argentina? Who remembers that? It is a year ago. One year. One year ago we were stuck in Argentina, one year ago our flight was canceled 9 times, and one year ago we were repatriated through an Air France flight, long after the airport of EZE was closed.…
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Welcome to a New World
This is totally and utterly surreal. When we left our country less than 1 month ago on this photographic trip to Buenos Aires, the world was still how we knew it, the world I grew up in. There had been many changes over the years, but all those changes came slowly and we chose to…
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Life as a pariah in Argentina. (Part 10)
Let’s end this series with a number 10. We have a flight, so we should be relieved. We are! Even though we won’t fully believe it until we’re actually in the plane. We are more than experienced with flight cancelations. We wake up 2 hours after the usual 5am (time Air France Belgium opens and…
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Life as a pariah in Argentina (part 9)
I never expected to get to part 9, but here we are, still stuck in Argentina. We now live out of our suitcase. If they call us, the embassy, we only need to put our pijamas in the suitcase, lock the house and go. We now shower before we have our coffee, we don’t leave…
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Life as a pariah in Argentina (part 8)
We leave the airport and look for a taxi. There are none. The airport is closed. We go the other terminal where there is a ‘cascos blancos’ team (whatever that is) who shout as the see us, that my husband and I need keep a distance between us of 1,5 meter. I jokingly tell them…
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Life as a pariah in Argentina (part 6)
We are on our way to Capital. You can only drive if you have a special permission. Like us, we have a flight confirmation, and a ‘laissez passer’ letter from the Belgian embassy. We have also received a link of the law saying we can go, in case they don’t believe us. I feel like…
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Life of a pariah in Argentina (part 4)
It feels like our last day, but it isn’t. Probably because it seems like nothing more can happen to us. We have a new flight. Again. The borders are not closed (at least not for flights to Brazil), and with the necessary documents (boarding pass or ticket) we can leave our house and drive to…
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Life of a pariah in Argentina (part 1)
life with corona in Argentina
The Feel Good Way 