Travelblog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
So here we are in Tierra del Fuego Ushuaia or what they call here fin del mundo or 'end of the world'. Two hour flight and totally different environment mountains with icy tops and colder air give these days a winter vacation feeling. Even though the weather is holding. Yesterday was a bit colder and cloudy but today we had a perfectly sunny and warm dayYesterday we took a boat excursion thr...
WINE IN SWEDEN (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
The estate where the grapes were grown is situated in Rio Negro Valley which is 620 miles south of Buenos Aires, 280 miles east of the Andes, and a further 1240 miles from Tierra del Fuego. It is located in the middle of the desert. The vineyards are influenced by the Neuquen and Limay rivers. The climate is dry. There is a maximum of 30% humidity and 7 inches of rain per year. This helps to...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... going to be considering my relative social isolation there), my dad’s visit and our trip to tierra del fuego and my anxieties about having planned it badly, and the more remote future, after I get back. I felt like I had achieved sort of a more peaceful zen-like state lately- but I had to admit that it must have been largely due to my unremitting somnolence and the mountains of mind-numbing...
Indymedia (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Runners from the Northern and Southern routes of the Peace and Dignity Journey, a sacred journey starting in Tierra del Fuego and Alaska and traveling on foot thousands of kilometers through hundreds of indigenous communities, met Friday on a bridge crossing the Panama Canal in the Kuna Nation. The goals of the journey, which has taken place every four years (starting in 1992), include strengthening...
