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Continue reading →: Gauchito Gil
Today is Gauchito Gil day. Did you ever wonder who or what those red ribbons at the side of the roads are for? Well, they are places to worship this saint, to ask him for favours and to let him know what you will do in return. Although he is…
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Continue reading →: This must be it!
Yes. This morning, just for a second while preparing for tennis, I panicked looking at the weather forecast. For a second I considered feigning sickness as an excuse to cancel my class, but then quickly dropped the idea. In order to have my hour of tennis I had kept my…
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Continue reading →: Capilla de los negros
Today it is hard to imagine that one day their was a vast number of black people in Argentina. During the 18th and 19th centuries, in some provinces, like Santiago del Estero and Catamarca, even half of the population were of black slaves. In 1810 in Buenos Aires the…
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Continue reading →: Dakar in Argentina…
Dakar, formerly known as Paris-Dakar, is a off-road rally for cars, trucks, ATV’s and motorcycles. Originally it went from Paris to Dakar, but in 2009, after security problems in Africa they moved the race to Latin America. The location changed, the name remained the same. It was good news for…
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Continue reading →: Ostend Copy Cat
As a Belgian it is of course impossible to ignore the existence of Ostende. Not the one at the Belgian North Sea Coast, but the one in Buenos Aires, Argentina, next to Pinamar. We visited it the first time we came to Argentina, in 2003. Our friends had warned us…
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Continue reading →: Carlos Cruz-Diez
Until the 5th of march 2012 there is this beautiful exhibition of this great artist in Malba. I absolutely loved his work. Beginning with paint only, then adding carton, then using plastic and other material. It is as if the images in the works move as you walk past them,…
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Continue reading →: It’s Christmas time…
What exactly does Christmas mean to you? Apart from the family get together and the (religious or not) celebrations? When you live in the northern hemisphere, things are definitely different then here in the south. When I saw the first signs of christmas a few weeks ago my first reaction…
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Continue reading →: Fueron, son y serán
Yes I know, the Falklands (las Malvinas) are British, but the Argentines are convinced they were, are, and always will be theirs. It is even written in the Argentine schoolbooks. I always wondered if the Argentines actually believe that the Falklands are theirs. Every Argentine I have ever asked said…
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Continue reading →: La Casa de Los Secretos
Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazo is a Argentine journalist who has a column in la Nación and in Perfíl. She also hosts a radio show “Magdalena Tempranísimo” on Radio Continental, between 6 and 9 am. I came to know her as the writer of “La Casa de Los Secretos”, a book I…






