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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…
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Continue reading →: Xul Solar
Xul Solar was born as Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari in 1887 and died in 1963. He was born in San Fernando Buenos Aires. He was educated as musician and architect. During the first world war he started painting and changed his name in Xul Solar (which means “the intensity of the…
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Continue reading →: Tigre
Tigre has always been a very popular destination for a day out of the busy and noisy city. It is situated in the Paraná delta in the north, about half an hour drive in car/train or collectivo (60). The name Tigre (tiger) comes from the tigers (jaguars) that were hunted…
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Continue reading →: Maria
Today is another national holiday, the last but one of this year. For those who would like to know, it is the remembrance of the immaculate conception of Mother Mary. This comes a bit as a surprise, because weren’t all the Christian holidays, apart from Christmas and Easter, abolished in…
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Continue reading →: Egresados
Egresados, viaje de Egresados, fiesta de Egresados, ceremonia de Egresados, cena de Egresados. Last year I was still wondering what an egresado was. Now I know. My son has graduated, he is an egresado. My Belgian son has graduated in Argentina. He couldn’t be happier. I suppose graduating is a…
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Continue reading →: the plague
Living in a big city has its downside. In a city there are pigeons. I remember in 2003 there were hardly any, now it is full. And believe me, I know. I have a pigeon phobea, no pigeon passes by without me noticing it. You will hardly ever see me…
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Continue reading →: The imposible is not posible
I read it on my Facebook. A friend states that she is ashamed to be Belgian. What has happened now? I was curious, so I checked the Belgian paper. I read that less and less, as it is always the same old story they are writing. Belgian politics fighting like…






