Category Archives: personal & micellaney

mendoza, argentina

.. in pictures.  (and a few words… but just a few.) the churches… (my favorite) we took a gondola up to see the city from above. as pretty as it was, one of my favorite days in salta was just sitting in the main square with michael, playing gin rummy, and feeding the pigeons. this...

our valentines day was spent in la paz, bolivia and had almost nothing valentines-y in it, but that is okay with us.  we´ll have an extra cheese valentine´s day next year or something. it´s carnival here and craziness. frankly, we are kinda over carnival. this is our 3rd city in a row celebrating their version...

so far, in the countries we´ve visited (argentina, chile, bolivia, and uruguay), it seems the art of window display is treated very differently than in america. these are very typical of the “stuff everything we can possibly find to display in the window and maybe something will catch someone´s eye” approach taken down here:

cordoba has a lot of churches (and other relics of the formerly very powerful jesuits), a lot of shopping, and a lot of cookies. the traditional cookies that córdoba is known for are alfajores, which we picked up at chammas. the main shopping streets are shaded by greenery and bougainvillea. and lastly, the churches… this...