A day on the beach with surferdude

Buenos Aires nostalgia

The dog walkers in Buenos Aires ensure copiously distributed piles of dog shit on the pavements all over the city.

Oh, Buenos Aires, city of charms and wondering...

A walk with my man and my dog

Pipa has beeaAUutiful beaches

Living the hippie dream

We're staying with hypermedia friend Tatiana. And she has left the house to us while she's working in Salvador for some weeks.

Tatiana's eco-house is made using found wood and other sustainable principles. Plastics hardly enter the house, Nestlé certainly doesn't, fruit peels and leftovers are composted, there's papayas and coconuts in the garden and bread is homemade. Beautiful. Not always practical, but admirable.

Hammocks are everywhere, along with cats and the dog Buba.

Pipa, it's in Brazil

Yay, we're in Brazil! In Pipa, a sleepy village on the north-east coast close to Natal.


Our eco-house




View from the window

Bye Bye Buenos Aires

It's our last day in Buenos Aires.

One last Peruvian-Japanese maki-fusion roll dinner at Osaka tonight, one last yoga session at our yoga shala tomorrow, one last favourite breakfast on favourite rooftop, and we wave Bs As good-bye.

Autumn is beautiful here, sunny and clear blue skies although it's getting chillier. It will be sad to leave Buenos Aires which has taken so good care of us for months now - but we are also ready for Brazilian beaches. (Who wouldn't be?)

The last Buenos Aires video potpourri by Christian has been released.

Bye Bye Buenos Aires...

Orquesta Tipica de Fernandez Fierro

Photo by Caroline Bennett

Went to an amazing tango concert last night with an 11-man dreadlocked tango orquestra in a warehouse in Abasto. Four accordions, four violins, two bases, a piano and a dopey singer. A spine-chilling performance, actually.

Pampas, mountains and a lot of dust

Visited the mighty pampas and the Sierras Chicas mountains on my last Argentina weekend. Flew to Cordoba, took a minibus and ended up in La Cumbre, a small mountain town - which was a slightly random choice.

This is mountainbiker- paraglider-, horseback-riding country with rocky dusty roads, small ranches, blue skies and wide and far horizons. Spent two days roaming about the dusty magnificent countryside on mountain bike and(!) horseback. (The combination horseback-ride and mountain-biking on the first day was proving slightly painful for day 2)





I also tried cordobese alfajores, which I really don't like, I had lots and lots of fresh dusty air and valley views, I stayed in a windswept posada run by paraglider and skydiver aficionados, met very friendly people and slept in the very quietest of nights, out there on that pampas.


Posada Alma Guacha


More pampas landscapes here.

Queueing for the bus

The Argentines always form an orderly queue for the bus. Very nice.