I’ve been pretty busy running around Paris, so I haven’t been writing as much as maybe I should. Tomorrow I’m flying to Madrid, so I can probably write some on the plane, but I would like throw in a quick plug here for the Musée National Gustave-Moreau. A friend suggested I check this out. It’s […]
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Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice
March 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Argentina, Photos, Travel
Tuesday was a national holiday here in Argentina. March 24th, 1976 marked the removal of Isabel Martínez de Perón (Juan Perón’s third wife [after Evita] who succeeded him as President) by a right-wing military junta that ruled Argentina until 1983. It’s actually a brand-new holiday, first celebrated in 2006, intended to commemorate the memory of […]
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Iguazu Falls
April 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Argentina, Photos, Travel
This past weekend, one of my friends came to visit and we went up to see Iguazu falls in Northern Argentina. It was kind of a tourist trap, and they were definitely onto gouging foreigners (entry to the park: 20 ARS for Argentinians, 60 ARS for others) but it was still absolutely spectacular and certainly […]
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Patagonia
April 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Argentina, Photos
Yesterday I flew down to El Calafate in Patagonia. The flight (on LAN airlines, who, unlike Aerolineas Argentina, will actually accept a credit card on their website) only cost slightly more than a bus ride, and took 3 hours instead of 50+ hours. God bless Orville and Wilbur.
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Perito Moreno
April 26th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Argentina, Photos, Travel
Sorry for the delay, the internet was down all across El Calafate yesterday. I finally have a lot of photos to share from the glacier hiking trip. I almost didn’t go. I woke up on Thursday morning with a really awful headache; then the medicine I took for my head upset my stomach without fixing […]
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