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Pictures from ‘enjolife‘ - a tranquil farm near South Africa’s wild West Coast, a few hours north of Cape Town.

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free ;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
Shots from the NAVIMAG hugging the coastline of wild Patagonian Chile.

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I spent Halloween afternoon in Huanuni, Bolivia, where the government was to announce the nationalisation of the the country’s mines. Instead, they announced that they were going to postpone the nationalisation and give salaried jobs to all the 4000 private miners in Huanuni.
Naturally, this made everyone [...]

A few days relaxing across the border in the famous Peruvian city of Cuzco and the Lost City of the Incas: Machu Picchu. I arrived in Cuzco during the festival of El Señor when associations of the christian faithful carry large statues of Christ Crucified on their shoulders around the city.

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Crossed the border at dawn, into a little town with a dirt road and a statue of Simon Bolivar, el liberador, who sent his general to push the Spanish back into the sea and created a new nation, which named itself in his honour.

As we wait for a cafe to open by the park, [...]

Took an overnight bus last weekend, driving through the unrelenting flat landscape of La Pampas (literally Plains) surrounding Buenos Aires to the Ventania mountain range and joined a group of Argentines walking the 3 Peaks.
We set out as soon as we arrived at 7 in the morning, taking it pretty easy and settled into a [...]

10 days in, a couple of tango lessons, and up to the present continuous and one of the past tense conjugations of castallano.
I like the place so far. I like learning spanish and the really good coffee and the great beef. I like the people and the bustling streets combined with the friendly nature of [...]