ROUND THE WORLD
2021


Traveling to Korea?
India, Myanmar, Bhutan, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Japan and South Korea are all on our wish list, I wonder how many we will be...

It's National Flower day today!
I had absolutely no idea yesterday, when I wrote about raining trees that today was National Flower day in Argentina! And this deserves a...

Rain from trees and other unusual things
Every year in the spring, when I go for a walk in our neighborhood it feels like it is raining, but only under the trees that line the...

Practicing packing and exiting the aircraft
Our departure date is getting closer: February 1st is just about 2 months away. Alex and I are working through our to-do list with items...

A few of my favorite things
The second wave of Covid-19 infections is in full swing in Europe and I just finished a grim report about the outlook for the...

Chicago Street Art
We have been back in Buenos Aires for almost 4 weeks but Chicago’s Street Art is still present in our minds and in the photo albums on...

Summer heat is around the corner
I owe you a post on Street Art in Chicago, and it will follow, but I changed my mind about today's topic while I was running with the...

Hello again Chicago!
Not sure if this happens to you also, but when I go back to a place where I have lived, it always unsettles me. On the one hand, it feels...

Traveling to Scandinavia thanks to Alfred Nobel
Alex and I are back in Buenos Aires after 5 weeks in the USA. Following local regulations, we now need to quarantine for 14 days, which...

Indianapolis (a.k.a. Indy or Circle City)
So... what do you know about Indianapolis? I myself knew nothing, except maybe some vague association with Formula One races. And indeed,...

Back in Washington DC
After a culturally enriching stay in Philadelphia, Alex and I traveled by Amtrak train to Washington DC, or rather from 30th street...

In Philadelphia, really.
We escaped ! Alex and I were able to secure seats last week, on a special flight from Buenos Aires to New York . We headed straight to...

Traveling in thought to Beirut
Still in Buenos Aires, still in lock-down but with the hope of traveling to the US next Thursday on a special flight (fingers crossed)....

Somber virus news, surprising custom and the odyssey of Evita's body
Today Argentina passed the bar of 5000 Covid-19 related deaths since the beginning of the epidemic. Similar to most countries, funeral...

Social distancing taken to the extreme: the "Asado" under attack!
And the lock-down continues here, slowing down the epidemic.... In fact, it's a sort of semi lock down in the sense that there are people...

Memory-traveling to Peru
Argentina has not been hit nearly as hard by Covid-19 as its less fortunate Latin American neighbors Brazil, Colombia and Peru. The...

We are not the only ones leaving Argentina, and its treasures, behind
July 28th, big day: the hairdressers are opening again! But apparently that isn't enough to make people happy. I read this morning - no...

100% in preparation mode
Today's post is a little technical but also has a small element of fashion :) The continuing lock down in Buenos Aires did not prevent us...

July 20th, Dia del Amigo in Argentina
Today is the "Dia del Amigo" here. Actually, Argentina has a day for everything: teachers day, students day, architect day, writers day,...




















