Archive for September, 2008

Animal rescue // *Intro*

I sort of announced this post (or series of posts) in the previous one.
I am an animal lover. I’ve been one for as long as I can recall. At some point I thought of becoming a veterinary doctor, but I couldn’t really deal with all the suffering and the language gap, so I decided to [...]

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Into the wild, a post not strictly for the birds

It’s 2:10 am
I’ve been sick since Tuesday night, with a flu. Yeah, no big deal… I tend to tell myself the same thing, but then every cell in my body burns at 38 degrees Celsius and all my joints hurt, and I change my mind: it’s a pain in the ass. Being sick sucks…
I’ve spent [...]

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Postcards of the city #7 // Conventillo

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Trip to Mendoza: Day 3 (part 2)

Back in Mendoza, we walked from the station to the city centre and stopped at a shop to buy some cous-cous, then hit the supermarket and bought the rest of the ingredients to make a dish that Cristian always praises, together with a chocotorta for dessert (recipe at the end of the post!).
Pipi, Dechi and [...]

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Mendoza: Day 3 (part 1)

Up early in the morning, we were ready to hit the road en route to Tunuyán. As I said previously, both the women at the tourist info office AND a little guidebook of the region had convinced us to head that way.
The previous night, however, destiny had thrown a little advice, but we didn’t hear [...]

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Postcards of the city #6 // Futuristic park

These pictures were taken at a park called “Micaela Bastidas” or “Parque de las mujeres”. It is at a very exclusive part of the Buenos Aires called Puerto Madero (which, ironically, is officially not a part of the city but territory of the state).
We were mesmerized by this park… and the nicest thing was that [...]

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Unusual event that made my day.

Well, I’m cheating a bit, because it is not that I will tell you about an extremely improbable event in this post.
No, I will just share what happened to me yesterday. It is not something incredible or anything of the sort, but it is definitely something unusual in my life.
How often does your bell ring, [...]

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Postcards of the city #5 // Promoting tourism

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