When I’m in Argentina, I often try to immerse myself in the Spanish language. I succeed up to a point, but it’s very difficult to escape from English. To demonstrate this, last year I chose a short block on one of Buenos Aires’ main avenues, away from the tourist areas. I looked in the shop…
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Apr
Last year, they showed 35 movies in Perth at the Spanish Film Festival. I saw all of them. There was one overwhelming theme: banks! In this movie … … men robbed a bank, and got away with it: In this one … … other men robbed a bank, and got away with it: In this…
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Apr
Although I’m posting this on April 1, this is not an April Fools’ Day joke. The only day I’ve ever spent in Manchester (apart from passing through on the train) was indeed both sunny and in a December. Better than driving in fog on the M62. They left the gates open for us to go…
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Apr
I don’t mean the Hollywood with the Bowl I visited in 2016: I mean Palermo Hollywood in Buenos Aires: the part of the barrio of Palermo with TV studios. And some places to eat. Dashi is a chain of Asian fusion restaurants in Buenos Aires. One of them is in Palermo Hollywood (Fitz Roy 1613, at the corner…
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Mar
I’m not normally very good at capturing sunsets, but Puerto Natales, Chile, 2005 was my favourite: Until now. I didn’t go much to the beach in the Perth summer just gone. So I popped down to Swanbourne this evening. At first, I thought I’d missed the sunset. Glad to be wrong.
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Mar
One unexpected bonus of going to Spanish class was that today about 25 of us got to make paella in the backyard of our teacher Estefanía (pictured with me below). We started with chicken in the centre of the pan (or capsicum in the case of my group, as we were doing vegetarian), put it…
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Mar
Some Buenos Aires residents refer to Avenida Santa Fe as Santa Gay. I’ve seen queer traffic lights in Munich and Trafalgar Square. And now on Santa Gay. I almost got myself run over there, which might have been the most fitting near-death experience since a glitter-ball almost hit Boy George. This is what BA traffic lights normally look…
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Mar
This year, in Perth, I’ve seen the slogan telling us to ‘forget boring’. Well, I forgot it last night at PICA when I saw ‘The Second Woman’. Not all of it, as it involved the same actress doing the same ten-minute scene 100 times with 100 different men, over the course of 24 hours. We…
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Mar
