Argentina Part 2 – Tierra del Fuego & Patagonia
Tierra del Fuego & Patagonia In the second of this three-part guest blog Karen von Gerlach, our South African friend, continues her Argentine epic to ‘The end of the world’ Wednesday, 28 October 2015 Argentina is enormous – the eighth largest country in the world. It says in a tourist brochure – if Argentina could be stretched out over Europe, with its northwest corner positioned over London, the country’s...
Argentina Part 1 – Buenos Aires and around
Buenos Aires & around In the first of this three-part guest blog, our South African friend Karen von Gerlach entertains us with her lively account of life in Buenos Aires. Monday, 19 October 2015 Everything had been carefully planned for months, new suitcases had been bought and perfectly packed (at least in my case; Kai packs his suitcase in an hour or less) at home everything had been organised and our pre-booked taxi...
Argentine Idea
It’s not often we’ll include something on our site that’s about somewhere we haven’t been! Don’t get us wrong – we have been to Argentina – back in the late 70’s during The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra Sucia) against socialism at a time of state terrorism when dissidents were driving down the street machine-gunning the Consulate properties in which we were staying with friends on our honeymoon. Buenos Aires was not a happy place just...
