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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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L.I.F.E.Christmas Party

  The kids had a whale of a time. We fed four hundred and had Christmas carols in the blazing heat. This might be the only Christmas gift some of them will get. The Government gives money for one meal a day and an afternoon snack for the kids after school. The communes look after […]

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Misiones

We have all come home happy and dirty and very satisfied that we helped the people of the Peruti village in Misiones District have a wonderful weekend. We drove off the motorway into the jungle and were given welcoming waves as we made our way down the dirt track. We gathered rubbish, brought up water […]

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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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Whales and Penguins

  We were packed into the boat like sardines. The whales were enormous but I spent half my time protecting my camera bag as everyone ran to one side of the boat as soon as a whale was spotted. The mating season was over and so we spotted mothers and babies. It is very difficult […]

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