Saturday 29 December 2012
Saturday 8 December 2012
Action on the promenade at Puerto Madero (Buenos Aires)
beside the Río de la Plata which the city backs on to, in a way.
Toxic cloud alarms Buenos Aires
A toxic cloud, caused by a fire at the port of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, causes panic and leads to the evacuation of buildings: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20635007
Here is the resultant pinkish-yellow sky taken with my camera in Caballito, 25 minutes from the centre. Also included is footage of the afternoon's meteorological downpour that managed to overshadow the events of the morning. Victims of the first being forced to leave the city; the second entrapped by flooding.
Here is the resultant pinkish-yellow sky taken with my camera in Caballito, 25 minutes from the centre. Also included is footage of the afternoon's meteorological downpour that managed to overshadow the events of the morning. Victims of the first being forced to leave the city; the second entrapped by flooding.
Thursday 25 October 2012
Puerto Madryn, Patagonia (Argentina)
for my 30th birthday. Pictured: The port, peer, Welch tea-house, dolphin, penguin, Sydney yacht
Monday 27 August 2012
Thursday 23 August 2012
Monday 27 February 2012
Sunday 12 February 2012
La Cumbrecita, Córdoba '10 (Argentina)
La Cumbrecita, a beautiful, small sleepy town in the province of Córdoba, with the Sierras as a backdrop. Spent a few days here taking in the natural sights, fresh-air, also climbing mountains, swimming, and relaxing, getting fitter and sunburnt . . . Reminded me of some places in the Blue Mountains which we are lucky to call a home - curse the day when they are overrun with tourism. Anyway, this was a great break and in which I recouped motivation needed for some goals in the big city. I would love to go back some day.
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Friday 13 January 2012
Saturday 7 January 2012
A veritable blessing from the Three Wise Men . . .
In celebrating the Magi (the Three Wise Men), or, here in Argentina, Los Reyes de Magos, by leaving some water and food overnight at the front door for the camels of whom, which amazingly only eat once a year, and which yearly carry their riders over the world from an unimaginably faraway. . . 'East'. . . Today Daniela and I were euphoric at the presence of two presents in the flat.
The first of which - a wooden chess set - was addressed to me!
The second - revealing itself much, much later in the day - a very comfortable, top-of-the-range, padded backpack for Daniela, to carry her back-breaking-ly heavy laptop to and from work!
So, as a stroke of good luck, as we had completely neglected to gift anything to each other at Christmas (in all the chaos, hoopla and misconstruction that be at this season of the year), on this day of celebration, the 6th of January, still upheld in Spain, parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, Portugal, Mexico, Uruguay and Argentina, we were happy at the chance of being able to make merry in ways we had missed on the usual day; the 25th of December.
Gracias a Los Rayes de Magos . . .
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