Ajetreo
Ajetreo/busy-ness. Today is a day of much activity. Woke up at 5.30 to do yoga!! Meeting with fellow DC creative who directed the documentary The Nine Lives of Marion Barry. Office shifts and then evening of movie and dinner in Georgetown. WashPo has listed the restos participating in this year’s Restaurant Week. Check out [...]
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Street Vendor, La Boca, Buenos Aires
La Boca
Red and Green
servicio de lavanderia
La Boca, reportedly named for the colorful Genoese neighborhood Boccadasse is a neighborhood at the southeast tip of buenos aires. To get to La Boca take Bus 98 or better yet take a cab that will drop you off on the main street El Caminito (the little path). [...]
Amor Porteño
Amor porteño
Una inquietante mirada de amor porteño
Cálida y cruel
No, no puedo creer que pasó
Que el misterio sensuel de tu risa canyengue
Se apagó
Ojos Negros
Y yo que pensaba que no me importaba
Que una caricia podía borrar el color
De mi ciudad …
Ganas de bailar
El código oculto de esa mirada
Es como una señal
Y no puedo [...]
The first thing I did when I got to Buenos Aires was a take a 5-hr walk with my good host-friend. I got off the plane at a most fortuitous time – 8 am. Just when the city is stirring. I slept most of the the 7 hr plane ride so I was fresh and [...]
I love the old, the vintage, the antiquated, the quaint and all vulgarities of the past. There is a stark beauty in dead flowers. Blossoming flowers are efflugent in their call to admirers. They make you look at them. Dead flowers have a kind of dignity about them. Something there is that does not glow [...]
Un Certain Regard
I just loved the look of this restaurant, Patio Baires in San Telmo. You don’t often see places like that. All brick, yellow and orange bursting from the walls to the foods, it’s a rest stop if you are on tourist feet in San Telmo, Buenos Aires. Of course, they specialized in asado, [...]
Transportation is a matter of luck. If you have to be anywhere at an exact time, you’ll want to plan arriving at least 30-40 before. The trains, subte (the train that rides only within the city center) and buses are not always on time. It is not uncommon to have a delay of hours (yes, plural).
Upon [...]
The itch to travel
Travelling is a fool’s paradise…I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the…self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.- Self-Reliance, RW Emerson
The Lone Traveler by Oisercage
Although I love Emerson and have read Self-Reliance [...]