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Continue reading →: Dioses, ritos y oficios del Mexico prehispanico, in PROA.
I know I am much to late with this post, as today was the last day of this exhibition in Fundacion PROA in la Bocca. I hope that many of my readers have checked it out as it was definitely worth it. It was another really nice exhibition as a…
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Continue reading →: Musica en Espera
If I liked Viudas, I was told to watch Musica en Espera, supposedly Natalia Oreiro’s best movie. It’s another Argentine movie, this time directed by Hernan Goldfrid, with next to Natalia Oreiro (Paula Otero), Diego Peretti (Ezequiel Font) and Norma Aleandro (la madre de Paula) as main characters. It is…
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Continue reading →: Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat
Yesterday, the 18th of February, mrs Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat has passed away at the age of 90. Not only was she considered to be the richest woman in Argentina, she has always loved her country and has always been generous through her trust fund, founded in 1976. This fund…
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Continue reading →: Orange Traffic Lights
On my daily morning walk, my head in the clouds, I was crossing the street. As in many places in Capital nowadays, the pedestrian traffic lights didn’t work. I looked up : red light for the cars, so green to me. I started crossing the street and when I was…
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Continue reading →: A Big Apple
Although the majority of the Argentines love to spend the month of January and/or February on the Argentine, Uruguayan or Brazilian beaches, that is not really my cup of tea. I don’t like crowded beaches. And I don’t like to sunbathe. This year I got to pick out our holiday…
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Continue reading →: White
It is official, the Belgian record is broken : the biggest traffic chaos caused by 4cm of snow that fell during 2 hours…
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Continue reading →: Let it snow, let it snow…
When you live in the first world, you take everything for granted. When you live in the third world you are convinced that everything in the first world always goes smoothly. How common it is that a taxi driver, fussing about something, tells you : ‘I am sure this does…
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Continue reading →: erratum : or how the sun can be a life changer!
Although it’s -5C today, it feels like -16C. But the sun is out! This is my favourite winter weather, very similar to BA winter, although there we should probably have to add a couple of degrees. I had decided not to complain about the weather anymore, but it turns out…
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Continue reading →: Grey, Dark and Gloomy
It was my son who drew my attention to it. Was that the landing gear that came out? About to land but still above a thick pack of clouds? Ouch! That did not look good! In the car I kept my eyes closed as much as possible : after a…
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Continue reading →: An Argentine Movie Night
Mi primer boda (my first wedding) A movie by Ariel Winograd with Daniel Hendler (Adrian) and Natalia Oreiro (Leonora). The wedding takes place in the beautiful estancia Villa Maria. The groom, obviously not the cleverest person in the world, looses the wedding rings, and instead of telling his beautiful wife…






