BLOG Birthday Blog - Hi, Great To Be Back! Usually I hide when it is my birthday and don't tell anyone. Last year I hid under the big tree in our friends garden in a little village in Poland. I am motivated to write this because the journey from that tree to my birthday this year has been important. (Well important for me anyway). The turning points are best described in trips. The trip to Poland to visit our dear friends enabled me to finally start to reconnect with myself and the deep amazing awe when I met #supercoolwife in Kraków in
BLOG Falling Towards Argentina #01 I was air drumming to INXS 'Devil Inside' very loudly and getting worried that my trousers would not make it through the day. The September sun was pouring in the window and I was really excited as I had just been invited to join this thing called "Gmail" - Oh and I was going to marry the girl I'd met in Krakow in February and then asked her to marry me when we were in Rome in April and here we were in Buenos Aires about to leave her mother's apartment and get married. This was not how people
BLOG Falling towards Tigre.... This episode is brought to you from my favourite place on earth, no not the front row of a David Bowie concert, the jetty of our friends house in Tigre, just outside BA in Argentina. I am still trying to work out how we are lucky enough to have friends that decided to ditch their flat in the middle of BA to move to the very inconvenient and very amazing Tigre. Tigre is a Delta outside BA, I thought Delta was an airline, but it is a recently formed collection of islands - recently I mean 200 ye
BLOG #Babybernie sat up and yawned, shook himself, and thrilled with delight..... #Babybernie sat up and yawned, shook himself, and thrilled with delight. This was seeing the world in real truth; this was life as he would have it - bustling and shouting, the buckling of belts, and beating of bullocks and creaking of wheels, cooking of food, and new sights at every turn of the approving eye. The sunny haze swept off in a whorl of silver, the buses shot away to some distant avenue. Buenos Aries was awake, and #Babybernie was in the middle of it... Taken at Estación Reti
BLOG ‘And yet it is every traveller’s conceit that no one will see what he has seen.......' ‘And yet it is every traveller’s conceit that no one will see what he has seen: his trip displaces the landscape and his version of events is all that matters. He is certainly kidding himself in this, but if he didn’t kid himself a little he would never go anywhere.’ Paul Theroux, The Kingdom by the Sea
BLOG Falling towards Argentina #LBM If I could drive anywhere in the world right now I’d drive to a book shop and pick up another copy of “In Patagonia” by Bruce Chatiwn then armed with my video camera I’d pop down to Argentina and follow in Chatwin’s footspteps. On the journey I would stop at each place Chatwin did and find someone to cook a local dish from with and video the making of the dish. I’d upload it on my blog with all the ingredients so “the folks at home could cook along”. What is amazing abou
BLOG Eating People #Video Blog "Coffee Steaks" @moogrill & @Unionroasted Meet Up [vimeo https://www.vimeo.com/19654441 w=480&h=300]
London #FindBritain I found Britain in Argentina #FindBritain - what got me into this when I married Super Cool Wife five years ago. People from Argentina are SO proud of their food – really it is just meat, red wine with the occasional bit of salad. When they asked what do you eat in the UK..... um... At the time I was ‘over-consumed’ with the UK – mainly because I read shit newspapers every day, watched shit TV and drank shit beer in shit pubs. When I married into another culture it was not all plain sailing. Howe
