It’s the day after Christmas and today Phil, Grant and I went to visit the Circulo Militar which is now a private club of sorts but in the past, was the Palacio Paz, a family home of the Paz family. This is a mansion built with materials brought from Europe and in the style of Louis XIV with lots of marble. […]
Well, today is Christmas and here we are in Buenos Aires–sure never thought I would be here and certainly not on Christmas Day. Geraldine and I prepared Christmas dinner for the Phillips family and for the crew. Of course, we had turkey but that was only the beginning. Geraldine named it “A Global Christmas Menu” and she took suggestions from everyone. […]
Today is Christmas Eve and it’s another beautiful day in BA! I took a long walk this morning while Phil went out again to look for some local art for the boat. He came back hours later with four paintings by Manuel Claro Bettinelli, a Brazilian artist who was born in 1920 and died in 2005. […]
Yesterday at lunch, Antonio told us about his estancias (ranches) where, among other things, he aged his special cheese. He promised to send us some and he sure did! […]
I took a walk this morning for about an hour; this area is a great place for walking. Grant worked all morning on the boat’s stereo speakers, trying to get them to work the way Phil wants them to. We’ll see how successful his efforts are. At 1PM, the three of us went to have lunch with Antonio Caselli, Ambassador for the Knights of Malta to Argentina, a very active international Catholic organization. […]