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... de notas tomadas al vuelo - literalmente, durante el vuelo de retorno de la Ciudad de México a Bogotá, hace un par de semanas - ligeramente editado en verde

... el hombre es un ser que piensa cuando camina. Porque nuestras conversaciones con Filopáter fueron todas peripatéticas. Sin afán alguno de evocar a Aristóteles, Filopáter daba ( Read more... )

We don't hear, we cannot hear, many of the things we utter. It takes someone from Istanbul to make me realize how many different letters s we have in Bogotá Spanish - desde is actually not pronounced deSde but deZde (try it within a sentence and you'll notice). The letter g in jugo is not the same as the letter g in gato, no matter what we may ( Read more... )

San Francisco sourdough bread is among the delights of life. Chewy, tangy, similar in a superficial way to French baguette, but oh so incredibly different, it is one of those breads that are difficult to convey by mere words.

The point of sourdough is exactly its sourness, which comes from not using industrial yeast. You prepare (the first time) the ( Read more... )

Right. A delight to listen to. I hope I will have the chance to listen to them in concert some time soon! Why is salsa music entitled to break my inner self in such an incredible way? I am never the same after listening to it.

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Back in March 2004, I posted about le parkour, an intriguing activity I only glimpsed briefly at Les Halles in Paris back then. During the last months, especially since coming back from Finland, I have come across more and more people doing parkour, not far from home (mostly, near the Torres del Parque, in the beautiful Parque de la Independencia).

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