I’m jetlagged, but I’m hitting the ground running! I walked in the door of my condo about 2:30 pm on Friday, having left Buenos Aires on a 9:00 pm flight on Thursday. The flight to Houston was 10 hours long, with a 4 hour layover, then it was another 8 hours to Honolulu. That means… Read More Jetlagged, but …
When I was planning this trip to South America, I made arrangements in advance to see the organs in Montevideo and the Buenos Aires Cathedral, but I certainly didn’t expect to find early music. When we toured the Teatro Colón, however, I saw a poster for the Gabetta Consort, which I suspected was an early… Read More Over-the-top early music!
Today we visited the Catedral Metropolitana of Buenos Aires … surely a unique experience for my companions, especially for our Spanish teacher, Barbi and her mom, who had never been in the Cathedral, much less in the organ loft. We were fortunate to meet Enrique Rimoldi, the organist, who invited us into the organ loft… Read More A unique experience
Our Spanish teacher, Nacho, came to our hotel this morning to have breakfast with us and to say goodbye before we took the Buquebus to Buenos Aires. The Buquebus is something we read about in our class, in the novel La Uruguaya, a very fast ferry between Uruguay and Argentina. Even though it takes about… Read More Buquebus to Buenos Aires
If you had told me even four years ago that I would begin an intensive study of Spanish and end up flying from Honolulu to Buenos Aires and Montevideo to meet my Spanish teachers I never would have believed you. But here I am, sitting at the Daniel Inouye International Airport waiting for a flight… Read More Aloha, Honolulu! ¡Hola, Montevideo y Buenos Aires!