… used to be death, taxes and Adriana Xenides turning around the letters on the Australian version of Wheel of Fortune. Adriana is sadly no longer with us, but this weekend, I spotted her longest running co-host – John Burgess or Burgo – in Hay Street Mall. There was a time when I’d try to…
View MoreDec 8, 2019
Let me take you back a dozen years to another country. Why did the people in the photo above dress up like this on a Buenos Aires evening in 2007? What were they trying to achieve? What good were they hoping would come from it? I don’t know, but I can say from my own…
View MoreNov 30, 2019
In Argentina, the Falkland Islands are called Las Malvinas; their capital is Puerto Argentino (Argentine Port) rather than Stanley. The Buenos Aires subway station of Juramento (the Spanish word for oath) has a cabinet with a model of Puerto Argentino during the 1982 war over the islands. Plus a set of rosary beads.
View MoreNov 24, 2019
Michael from Perth
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