Category: Historic Places

La Paz

  La Paz is not the Capital of Bolivia although it is the largest city in Bolivia. The roads are liable to be closed when there is a lot of rain. Potosi is the highest city in the world but La Paz is the second highest. There is a wonderful Franciscan monastery in Plaza San […]

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Buenos Aires and friends

Joanna, Caroline, Iain, Charlotte, Otto, Olivier, Loli, Andres, Tom, Thomas, Jeff and Lifong, Fabrizzio and Celi too many to mention and not forgetting El Sol de San Telmo in its heyday. The fun we had and the wine we drunk!! San Telmo is still my favourite place to stay in Buenos Aires with its historic […]

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Tango and La Boca

La Boca is a colourful suburb of Buenos Aires. It has a multitude of restaurants, shops and colourful buildings highlighted by the statues of famous Argentinian personalities. The buildings are painted yellows, greens, reds, blues and art is everywhere. Statues, paintings, tango dancers abound. This area has a  vibrant history of the days when as […]

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Colonia de Sacramento

  Pink, green, orange, yellow and rust coloured Colonial style houses, tree lined cobbled streets, Bougainvillea hanging over white washed walls and a feeling of peace and quiet after the hustle and bustle of Buenos Aires. The first thing we saw as we got off the bus was a vintage car with shrubs and cactus […]

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Granada

I watched her trudging up the hill this little girl with the bulging backpack that was larger than she was. Very colourful I thought looking at her pink T shirt, lime green skirt with blue edging round the hem, white tights with red and black polka dots and heavy clunky walking shoes. The enormous backpack […]

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