The Trip
So I'm back after ten days of work and fun.
The work part was less entertaining that it was a month ago in Quito. But then, at Quito I was at home, so I expected that. Also this event made me realize -again- how separated I've become from what used to be my professional playground, and how my interests diverge from those of the mainstream, and that's a problem. Last, but not least, sometimes it still surprises me to find myself thwrown in the middle of a "white-old-men" playground of power games. Let's just say old in the broad sense of the word, because some of them are my age, but the white and the male are terribly dominant. And if they're young they're so eager to be perceived as powerful that is tiresome. Bo-oo-oooring, even if I met friends and acquaintances.
The fun part was fun, though. I was meeting a couple of friends from Ecuador in Buenos Aires, and we had a great time together. We ate -extraordinarily good beef- and drank -extraordinarily good malbec at outrageously cheap prices- went to the movies, the theatre, did the touristy things, and generally enjoyed ourselves.
It was terribly hot and humid in Buenos Aires, too hot for the early srping, so we enjoyed open air cafes till late in the evenings. Then last wednesday the weather changed, a monster storm settled in and we left Buenos Aires for Iguazu, in the north.
Iguazu was hot and humid, too, but it is the jungle, so it is expected, and the hotel had a pool, so early monring and late evening swims were a plus. Food and drinks as good as in Buenos Aires, and the sights were great. I had been to the waterfalls some twenty years ago, but still it came as a shock, that powerful mass of water, the sounds, and the sheer number of falls: more than 250..
And now to the pics.
Not very good pictures, because the camera in my phone isn't all that good, and there was a lot of spray in the air, and a lot of people walking around and the sky was grey even if it was very warm annnnd... I really couldn't be bothered to take the time and elbow my way for a prize pic. But enough to get the feeling, I expect! :-)
The work part was less entertaining that it was a month ago in Quito. But then, at Quito I was at home, so I expected that. Also this event made me realize -again- how separated I've become from what used to be my professional playground, and how my interests diverge from those of the mainstream, and that's a problem. Last, but not least, sometimes it still surprises me to find myself thwrown in the middle of a "white-old-men" playground of power games. Let's just say old in the broad sense of the word, because some of them are my age, but the white and the male are terribly dominant. And if they're young they're so eager to be perceived as powerful that is tiresome. Bo-oo-oooring, even if I met friends and acquaintances.
The fun part was fun, though. I was meeting a couple of friends from Ecuador in Buenos Aires, and we had a great time together. We ate -extraordinarily good beef- and drank -extraordinarily good malbec at outrageously cheap prices- went to the movies, the theatre, did the touristy things, and generally enjoyed ourselves.
It was terribly hot and humid in Buenos Aires, too hot for the early srping, so we enjoyed open air cafes till late in the evenings. Then last wednesday the weather changed, a monster storm settled in and we left Buenos Aires for Iguazu, in the north.
Iguazu was hot and humid, too, but it is the jungle, so it is expected, and the hotel had a pool, so early monring and late evening swims were a plus. Food and drinks as good as in Buenos Aires, and the sights were great. I had been to the waterfalls some twenty years ago, but still it came as a shock, that powerful mass of water, the sounds, and the sheer number of falls: more than 250..
And now to the pics.
Not very good pictures, because the camera in my phone isn't all that good, and there was a lot of spray in the air, and a lot of people walking around and the sky was grey even if it was very warm annnnd... I really couldn't be bothered to take the time and elbow my way for a prize pic. But enough to get the feeling, I expect! :-)