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Continue reading →: bici metamorphoses
I don’t know when exactly the metamorphosis took place, but I suppose it came gradually. Only a few years ago biking in Buenos Aires was considered the easiest way to commit suicide. That is understandable, if you know that there were no bike lanes, traffic is terribly chaotic in this…
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Continue reading →: Respect the silence
If you read my article about disciplined waiting, you might be surprised to see that there are limits to the Argentine’s patience. It looks like there are. It took me a while to understand what exactly was happening when waiting to pass the peaje on the highway. Why is it…
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Continue reading →: Freddie
Hernán Piquin is Freddie in the dance performance on Queen’s music. Hernandez is an outstanding Argentine balerin, who studied el Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón. In 1985 he is invited as honory student in the English National Ballet school and the June Ballet in France where he danced…
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Continue reading →: La Querencia
How on earth did she find this, is what you would probably say when you follow this recommendation and go for lunch or dinner in La Querencia in Monasterio. Monasterio is not even a town. Only 8 families live here in just a few houses next to la Ruta 2,…
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Continue reading →: Another 4 years
Yes she is going to stay with us for the next 4 years. Cristina, that is. She had lost a lot of her popularity over the soya crisis 2 years ago, and when she lost her husband last year, everyone seem to think it was over. Wasn’t she just her…
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Continue reading →: Pina (3D)
For years Wim Wenders was planned to make a movie, together with the choreographer Pina Bausch, about the famous “Tanztheater Wuppertal”, and they had already started working on it when Pina died in 2009. It is a movie about dancing, and is a tribute to the deceased Pina. In 3D…
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Continue reading →: The Mecca of Tango
When you say Argentina, you say tango. It isnt quite clear how it started, nor when, but it is certain that the first tango-like dances originate around the Rio de la Plata, in Buenos Aires and in Montevideo. The first tango music was created and became more popular in the…
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Continue reading →: Who Cares About Privacy?
Parents worry about Facebook taking over the lives of their kids. Aren’t we constantly trying to warn them about the dangers? If by any chance our house gets broken into while we are on holidays, it is probably because they mentioned our trip on FB. (As if thieves didn’t know…
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Continue reading →: capital in the campo
People often ask me where I come from. I tell them I come from a small town between Bruges and Ghent. I tell them I used to live in ‘the country’, as we call it in Belgium. But as I see it now, compared to Buenos Aires, my hometown was…
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Continue reading →: blackberry vs apple, the battle.
For a couple of years now, we have been fighting this war in my family. I am one of those fanatic apple fans. I threw out windows years ago, and couldn’t be more happy when they brought out their first iPhone. My husband has a blackberry. A blackberry is for…






