Hear, mortals, the sacred cry: “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” Hear the noise of broken chains, see the noble Equality enthroned. Their most honorable throne have opened the United Provinces of the South. And the free ones of the world reply: “To the Argentinian people, Hail!” – from the Argentine National Anthem Vicente López – This suburban… Read More Always a Bridesmaid
&”…the true social and industrial boost begun in 1924 when a Japanese citizen called Gashu, who discovered how fit the zone was for the production of flowers, settled in the land. Along with a group of Japanese immigrant workers, he started the first large plantations. Just five years later producers of Portuguese, Italian, Belgian and… Read More City of Flowers?
“Fort Apache is not actually the real name of the isolated ghetto that lies four miles to the north of the centre of Buenos Aires. A journalist first coined the phrase after a shoot-out in front of the local police station in the early 1980s and it has stuck ever since. Most of the 30,000… Read More Fort Apache
“We would drive up the Avenue, but we haven’t got the price We would skate up the Avenue, but there isn’t any ice We would ride on a bicycle, but we haven’t got a bike So we’ll walk up the Avenue Yes, we’ll walk up the Avenue And to walk up the Avenue’s what we… Read More Stroll Up the Avenue
“A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me. I’m afraid of widths.” – Stephen Wright, comedian Buenos Aires – While it may not be the most commonly asked question in Buenos Aires, which is probably “Where do I get the best steak?” (an unanswerable query if ever there was one), it certainly comes… Read More Wide Open Spaces
“There is around the name of Garibaldi a halo which nothing can extinguish: a whole life devoted to one object – his country; a name consecrated by deeds of honor, first abroad, and then at home; valor and constancy more than admirable; simplicity of life and manners which recalls the men of antiquity; all the… Read More Hero of the Two Worlds
“I am–fanatically, unapologetically–a placeist. This makes me a virtual thought-criminal in an age of global homogeneity. ‘Placeism’ might be defined in the criminal code as the unreasoned love of a particular place, be it a neighborhood, village, city, or even state. Placeists insist that residents of real places have histories, customs, accents, and concerns that… Read More Way Up North
In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.” – Plutarch, Greek Historian, Biographer, Essayist Buenos Aires – Continuing on my series of Supreme Directors’ walks – we pick up, chronologically, though not geographically,… Read More The Supremes – Tracks 3 & 7