Water, water everywhere

Buenos Aires, Argentina [by Paula] We Brits are sticklers for punctuality. So it seemed a trifle rude to turn up to our friends’ house in Buenos Aires, more than a year late. “Sorry about that,” we said. “Hope the dinner’s not ruined.” We’d last seen Karen and Gustavo at a trade union conference in Costa […]

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On a mission

Salta, Argentina [by Paula] Given how unbelievably sweaty, dusty and thirsty we were, it was hard to imagine how it must have been for the 17th-century Jesuit priests who had to trek here from Paraguay. I mean, I don’t think they even had ice cream shops then. The majority of our associations with Bolivia are […]

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