Category Archives: Argentina

My north to south adventure

In the summer of 2011, just before my 70th birthday, we went up the Norwegian coast on a ferry through the fjords and past North Cape, the most northerly point of the European mainland.  We then flew out to Svalbard where we saw a polar bear and went to 80 degrees north only 600 miles from the North pole.

Christmas...


Buenos Aires now and then

So it is almost 10 years, since I had last visited this city. What changes would I see, both in the city and in the people, who, according to our national newspapers were rather anti British? Last time I had been here was just after the financial crash of 2002. The rich were rich and the poor were poor. The slums that...