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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…
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Continue reading →: Feliz Dia de Primavera!
It looks like the sun knew it is dia de primavera (day of spring) today, as she gave a little more warmth then she did in the previous weeks. It was 26 degrees today! Time to exchange the boots for summer shoes, to put the winter coats aside, and go outside…
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Continue reading →: Boludo que cree que puede cambiar la realidad de este país*
(*fool who believes he can change the world) Who else was, last friday, just like me, stopped at a crossroad somewhere in Capital, thinking, cursing : “No! No piqueteros! Not again!”. But then a cheerful young girl with a self-made white cloth over her T-shirt saying “Un techo para mi…
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Continue reading →: BA by Night
I know, officially it is still winter, but we can feel a touch of spring now. Spring weather is supposed to be quite unstable. Whenever you are convinced spring has finally started, you get a couple of freezing cold days to bring you back into reality. So lets just enjoy…
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Continue reading →: Love and Passion
Teatro Colón has always been something magical. Is it because of it’s beauty, it’s program, it’s reputation? Or is it because it is so hard to get in? Going to a show was on my to do list ever since the first time we came here in 2003. Somewhere I…






