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1996 Memory

February 21, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The Porteño taxi driver surprised me several times. He smiled and whispered affectionately as he moved the small dog across to steer the car. The terrier had been whimpering, seeking attention as we zipped through Buenos Aires traffic. The smell in the car was also surprising. The windows were open because of the heat and the interior was decorated with toilet bowl fresheners. Pine and lavender as I recall, six clipped to doors and seats that I could see.

Yearning for the traffic-free safety of Patagonia!
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: argentina, buenos aires, donegal, patagonia, the burren, traffic, travel

Sakharov Prize

December 15, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The European Parliament has announced that the 2020 Sakharov Prize is going to the Belarusian  opposition Coordination Council, a predominantly female group who are holding out for dignity and democracy. It’s surely a mark of the 26 year reign of the podpolkovnik‎ (supreme commander) Alexander Lukashenko that this is the third time the prize has made its way to the troubled Belarus.

Persistent bloom despite the winter (this date 2008).
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: alexander lukashenko, belarus, buenos aires, Covid-19, donald trump, european parliament, mortality rates, nature, pandemic, photo, sakharov prize

Patagonian and Fuegian Tales

August 23, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘I passed through three boring towns’ was the start of a chapter that changed the way I thought about travel writers yet again. It helped that I would visit them after I read the chapter. Both visits were stopovers of a kind. One by commercial jet, the other by ship seeking shelter from two cyclones that seemed to merge just to scare us off.

I had found In Patagonia in a shop in Buenos Aires in late 1995. I was living in a hotel on Avenida de Mayo just a stone’s throw from the Casa Rosada, the Presidential Palace. Carlos Menem had just been re-elected and there were almost weekly protest marches on Thursdays. Once, a firework cannister was directed at me for watching the passing flag, banner and placard waving throngs from my third floor hotel balcony window.

The Squid Fleet ran with us from the storm to Rio Gallegos.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: argentina, booklink, bruce chatwin, buenos aires, charles darwin, language, patagonia, photo, robert fitzroy, travel

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