Yesterday, I went to a park honoring all of the people who disappeared — Parque de Memoria. The military people who were in charge of Argentina in the 1970s did not like all these people so they just disappeared. And, they have a big wall with the name and age of the people that disappeared.There … Continue reading
Category Archives: Buenos Aires
The life of illegal grafitti and grafitti your allowed to do
Yesterday, which was Thanksgiving, we were in Buenos Aires. It is not only time we have not been in the United states for Thanksgiving. Last year, we spent Thanksgiving in the Galapagos Islands. Well the point is that on Thanksgiving we went on a grafitti and street art tour and class. We saw a bunch … Continue reading
Carlos Gardel . . . The Argentinian Elvis of the early 1930’s
Carlos had it all! He was handsome and an amazing crooner and songwriter!! Carlos was the Elvis of his day! He wrote beautiful, tragic love songs for the Tango and women worshipped him! The Tango originated in the 1890’s in working neighborhoods along the Rio Plata. In those days it was a partner dance between … Continue reading
The weird Isabel
When Evita Peron died she got put in all these different places. And someone named Isabel married her husband Juan Peron after she died. And for two years they put her body on their dining room table at their house in Spain. So every night Isabel combed her hair so she would become more like Evita, … Continue reading