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Continue reading →: migraciones
09-09-09 sounds like a magical date, and of course it is : it is the day that we moved to Argentina. Although it looks like we chose that date, we didn’t. It’s the immigration officer who noticed ‘the magic’ of the day when we arrived. That is 3 now years…
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Continue reading →: What on earth?
Well guys, I need your help. google does not give me the answer so I hope at least one of you can! These are fish, that I know. I even assume they are the famous ‘pejerrey’ you so often find on your plate. But what are they doing?? They make…
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Continue reading →: El burladero
burladero sustantivo masculino: barrier behind which the bullfighter takes refuge So we passed by this place last week : you can’t see much through the windows, the door is closed, there is a security man. It’s a new restaurant. I don’t remember the name if the old one, only that it wasn’t…
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Continue reading →: Once in a blue moon…
Although I know the expression “once in a blue moon”, up to yesterday I didn’t know -nor wonder- what a blue moon actually is. But yesterday, all of a sudden, both Belgians and Argentines mentioned it to me, on the same blue moon night. August 31st. It is supposed to…
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Continue reading →: driving home
Nothing as beautiful as a partly clouded sky when the sun sets. Puerto Madero at its best!
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Continue reading →: 2 + 2
Dos más dos is the latest -absolutely hilarious- movie by Diego Kaplan. It’s about 2 couples, Diego and Emilia (Adrian Suar and Julieta Diaz) and Richard and Betina (Juan Minujín and Carla Peterson). They have been first friends for over 10 years, and the husbands are partners in a clinic.…
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Continue reading →: The saint who lost track of time…
So today, to my big disappointment, she was mentioned again : the saint, responsible for the the heavy thunderstorms around the end of the month august. She is called Santa Rosa. It turns out that she has completely lost track of time. She is due around the end of august, a…
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Continue reading →: Not just some photos…
The weather gods haven’t really been at our sides lately, and there are even more rainy days to come. Now that the Olympics are coming to an end there is no excuse to stay inside and it is more then time to get away from that TV screen and do…
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Continue reading →: Acá!
Its been almost 3 years since I moved here. So you would think my Spanish is quite good, wouldn’t you? Actually, I speak Spanish, I read Spanish, I sing in Spanish, sometimes I even dream in Spanish. I am getting more fluent every day, trying my best to fit in…
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Continue reading →: B.N.D.
It took me a while to realize that B.N.D. stands for ‘Belgian National Day’. Obviously this post comes with a bit of a delay, as the Belgian national holiday is on July 21. Maybe you already know that my country of origin, Belgium, is quite a complicated one. As a…






