If you’re doing a cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula, it’ll probably start and end in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego: But there are other things to see, either before or after. You might want to go to the Patagonian town of El Calafate, because it’s near(ish) the Perito Moreno Glacier (even though I query whether that’s the Brokeback Mountain of Argentina,…
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Apr
It’s not very often I get gushy and sentimental, but it’s also my birthday. If you’re wanting something more, well, me, please click here. I saw 30 movies in 14 days at last year’s Spanish Film Festival in Perth. If you saw my Fringe show in February, you might remember three rather silly life lessons’I learned from…
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Apr
I’m with Lisa at the start of the Pride March, Buenos Aires, 2007: The Cathedral – where the future Pope Francis was Archbishop – is behind us. When I was at the same event in 2005, a smoke bomb went off during a conflict between Catholic and anti-Catholic protesters. Look carefully to see barriers and guards…
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Apr
Allegiance was a Broadway musical about Japanese-Americans who were interned in the United States during the Second World War. On 6 October last year, my friend JJ and I went to the first preview. Four months later, it closed. Broadway has revivals … … plus a show that’s been around so long that it could have been…
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Apr
The going rate to hide out with your son in a Buenos Aires love hotel is 500 pesos a night. (From the Argentine movie Refugee) Argentina’s inflation rate could make this one out of date, though it’s hard to say what that rate actually is. In December 2013 it was said to be 11 per cent,…
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Apr
Is it: (a) the Supreme Court of Argentina? (b) the State Public Library? (c) the city’s oldest opera house? (d) the US embassy? (e) the National Museum? (f) none of the above? (Clue: It faces Plaza de Mayo, the main square in Buenos Aires.) Please scroll down… And a little…
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Apr
Jesus rises from the polystyrene mountain above the plastic palms, does a few turns and goes back inside. The Hallelujah Chorus sometimes has to compete with splashing from the swimming pools at Parque Norte and planes taking off and landing at Jorge Newbery Airport. And an hour later, it all happens again. I didn’t take…
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Mar
