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Continue reading →: Amigo…
Is there a nicer way to ask you not to put graffiti on your wall? Love this one! “My friend, I respect your political idea; your musical group, your footbalteam, your romance, Please respect my walls, we have restored them for the neighborhood, look after them! Thanks” PS. these walls were…
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Continue reading →: cravings
Cravings are often connected to pregnancies, aren’t they? Well I’m not pregnant (been there done that), but cravings I do have, probably connected to the fact I’m far away from home, deprived from certain types of food or certain dishes. If you would have asked me about this a year…
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Continue reading →: empty dunes
Empty beaches and empty dunes, I love them. Quite difficult if you live in Europe I would say. In Belgium we have wonderful beaches, but we have such a short coastline (67km) and there are so many people (10 million Belgians, plus Germans and Dutch that like our coast more…
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Continue reading →: About Easter Church Bells and Bunnies
Easter is not just a religious holiday, the remembrance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is also the day we eat chocolate Easter eggs. But why do we eat eggs and where do these eggs come from? Do the church bells get them in Rome, or does the Easter…
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Continue reading →: 2nd of April
Today is another national holiday; today we honor the veterans of the malvinas war (2 paril-14 april 1982), and remember the fallen. The war of the Malvinas (Falklands war) was a very short one and lasted only 74 days, still 649 Argentines and 255 British lost their lives. Although it…
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Continue reading →: April Fish
Today is April fools day. It is a day you can play all kinds of jokes on your friends, family and co-workers. In Belgium we call it April fish, and one of the popular jokes is sticking a paper fish on somebody’s back. It is important enough for the radio…
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Continue reading →: La historia oficial
Yet another movie (indirectly) about the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. But it is never too much. People that have disappeared (desaparecidos) during the dictatorship, some of them pregnant : many of the babies born in captivity seem to have been adopted by people who had sympathy for the…
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Continue reading →: Piqueteros on Plaza de Mayo
Today I passed by Plaza de Mayo, where there was (as usual) a demonstration going on. Although they are protesting, the atmosphere seems very peaceful. But I add a video so you hear the noise that accompanies the images.
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Continue reading →: Back to school – Tomando Mate
Now that I’ve gone back to school, I seem to have been immerged into the mate-culture. Of course I have seen people drinking mate before (in cars, in shops, my cleaning lady, some of my friends…) and occasionally I have been offered to join them. Sometimes it is impossible to…
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Continue reading →: Poner una pica en Flandes
Who would have thought that our ancestors had made it into the Spanish language? I as baffled when I first heard this expression : “poner una pica en Flandes” (literally, to put a pike in Flanders) means “to achieve the impossible, to reach a milestone”. My ancestors suffered a lot during…






