Photo Essay. A typical week in the life a a Columbia University graduate student. Let’s take a look at what life is like through the eye of my camera… in invite [more...]
Yes… there was another reason I came to Columbia University – because it is in New York. The United Nations also happens to be in New York. What a happy [more...]
A collection of some of the more interesting signs… some spanglish, some are inglespanol… some are just silly. Most of the jokes are lewd and tasteless, so if [more...]
Puerto Montt (1/6/07 – 3/6/07) The closest significant Chilean city to Bariloche was Puerto Montt which I decided would be my launching point to either Coyhaique or [more...]
Buenos Aires (16/5/07 – 19/5/07) I arrived in Buenos Aires by boat from Montevideo… I immediately took the subway to the centre of town and started knocking on [more...]
Montevideo (14/5/07 – 15/5/07) After Rio, all my “planned” destinations were in much colder locations… so I sent some stuff home. Mostly summer stuff, [more...]
Foz do Iguaçu (4/5/07 – 5/5/07) The Iguazu falls are South America’s mightiest. Mightiest? You might say… I did. In a land which already boasts such [more...]
Asuncion (1/5/07 – 3/5/07) Paraguay was never intended as a long stopover. In fact, there were only two things on my list for Paraguay – the Chaco, the sparsely [more...]
Copacabana (20/4/07 – 22/4/07) Bolivia is a place I have only previously known through reading about its dire hyperinflation in the chapter “Bolivia’s high [more...]
Lima (5/4/07 – 8/4/07) The wealthy and affluent capital of Peru and once the capital of Spanish South America (all of South America except Brazil). A very large [more...]
Quito (2/4/07 – 5/4/07) Quito is one of the few places in the world where the pilot actually has to *decompress* the cabin prior to landing. Most of the time, the plane [more...]
Los Angeles (13/3/07 – 15/3/07) This was a bit of a let down. Santa Monica beach at about 10am. I think the weather might have had something to do with it. The bus [more...]
What to say about Venezuela? This is the second time that I’ve been here (if you want to know about the first time, which was also very memorable but for very different [more...]
Havana (25/2/07 – 1/3/07) Cuba is an interesting place. The first thing that one notices is the apartheid. This is not like the apartheid that poisoned South Africa [more...]
Mexico City (11/1/07 – 14/1/07) Mexico city was, for a while, the world’s most populated city. It is still among the top 5, although its precise ranking is often [more...]