Midsumma Carnival
Sunday saw the launch of the Midsumma festival, with Midsumma Carnival held at Alexandra Gardens. I went there relatively early and roamed the stands, free goodies and enjoyed the show. Midsumma will run into February and host dozens of events: shows, music, poems, exhibitions, sports, shows… I seriously need to plan this so I get […] Read More
With friends
I’m discovering Melbourne step by step these days with Sven, Kevin and Rajiv. It’s great to have them here. My friend Kevin, always keen to sniff out the newest exhibitions, found this great show about early fashion photographer Edward Steichen in the National Gallery of Victoria. They also run an exhibition called MELBOURNE NOW, concentrating […] Read More
Arts & sights
We headed for the Art Gallery New South Wales, to see their permanent collection of modern Australian art, and a current exhibition on American painting. I don’t think I have ever seen Australian painters before. In a continent in discovery, arts and paintings were not necessarily the first thing on the settlers’ minds. A great […] Read More
Sights, smells and sounds
Valparaíso is… hard to describe. It has its grand, old buildings, and all this little ones, full of graffiti, some really run down… it’s not a nice city as such. It doesn’t have any specific, must-see sights, maybe except the house of Pablo Neruda which I missed. But it’s a sight in itself. No wonder […] Read More
Street Art
I walked around half the day, up and down, and took literally hungriest of pictures of street art. I’m currently uploading them onto my flickr. It’s way too much for this blog. So here’s a little selection. Read More
The hills of Valpo
Yesterday I walked around Cerro Alegre, my neighborhood all afternoon, up and down the streets. I stayed on the hill and took something like 250 pictures. After a quick pizza, I was calling it an early night, and didn’t go out anymore. I had the prefect night in my hotel, the bed being a huge […] Read More
A stroll through Barrio Yungay
I took a Metro ride into the Yungay barrio on Saturday. A new friend, Alvaro, wanted to show me this area and then take me to the Museum of Human rights, that memorizes the military coup and the following nearly two decades of dictatorship. Yungay is a beautiful area. I would not have had it […] Read More
Santiago Electronica
Friday was a hot and lazy day, I went to the supermarket, went to the pool, slept a bit in the afternoon… The I met up with Ignacio, a mexican IT network specialist, for an after-work beer. We headed to one of those little canteens that seem typical for Chile, with most guests sitting at […] Read More
Bellas artes
I don’t know why I overlooked this gem on the last trip. I went to MALBA, the museum of Modern Art. But not to this one, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. My expectations were low, Pablo, with whom I went, mentioned that it only had one single van Gogh… it sounded like that was […] Read More
Palermo streets and street art
Today I took a walk though the neighborhood of Palermo, a big area that has several little areas, Palermo Viejo, Palermo Hollywood, Palermo Soho…. It is one of the city’s hubs for cafés and bars at night, little shopping boutiques during the day and full of street art. I was with Pablo, a […] Read More