even though i cant really read spanish (let alone speak it), i spend a fair amount of time in book stores in buenos aires which ultimaetely paid off as i found a very intreaguing book titled ‘San La Muerte – Una Voz Extraña‘ (also available via amazon UK – if you are to stingy to […]
got reminded again that the netherlands have turned into a society of discussing racist cowards less then 10 hours after arriving back back in amsterdam. on the front-page of todays volkskrant there is an article titled ‘Verdonk: op straat alleen Nederlands‘ (link requires paid registration). in english this translates into ‘Verdonk: dutch must be spoken […]
to celebrate(?) the fact that i have started to eat meat again (after 12 or so years) i have created a flickr set highlighting some meat related pictures in i took during my two visits to buenos aires (in 2004 as a vegetarian and in 2006 after having started to eat meat again in patagonia). […]
i almost missed my flight today. first air france offered me €150 and hotel costs if i would consider flying the next day as the flight was overbooked. given that it was sunny 30C in BsAs and snowy -2C in berlin i immediately accepted their proposal. i was given a voucher for €150 and asked […]
the otherwise excellent malba (museum of latin american art of buenos aires) is currently showing works of the brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica in a solo exhibition. one of the elements present in all 5 works on display are photographic representations of cocaine (or to be precise lines of coke laid out on top of photographs […]
… i would not sponsor a street called ’11th of spetember’ as this invokes slightly too much images of planes crashing into buildings in my head. areolineas argentinas (the argentininan flag carrier) seems to think otherwise as this street sign form the buenos aires neighbourhood of belgrano illustrates: the street in question seems to have […]
after 9 days in patagonia i am back in buenos aires and will probably stay here till i go back to berlin on the 19th. i have bought myself a bike and started to explore the city. the character of the city is a really strange mix of speed (alsmost hecktic when i to comes […]
in order to get to monte leon national park we had to rent a car. europcar got us a brand new renault clio which prooved to be a nice car even on the dirt roads (ripios) of patagonia. from the outside the clio looked like any other clio i had been in so far, but […]
tomorrow we will be going from El Calafate to the monte leon national park on the atlantic coast. this is a 6 hour drive on unpaved roads and we wanted to take along yerba mate. missing the required gear (gourd and bombilla) i set out to get us a set: El Calaftate being a tourist […]