Went to the national library today, but my pictures are in my real camera from which I’ll have to extract them later or something like that. Needless to say, it is monumental. This was some totally awesome masterpiece of genius and photoshop that some student did for the library’s 300th anniversary: l /> Thanks to [...]
From the monthly archives:
February 2012
In the area known as Embajadores, where my friend Eugenia lives, there’s a street called De la Ribera de Curtidores that houses 3 small leather and equestrian shops. They are tiny and filled with leather saddles and bridles, halters and bits and colorful saddle bags. They have great collections of leather bags, purses and briefcases, [...]
Trying to schedule a trip by rail here elucidates all that is wrong with this country. On the one hand you have this enviable, modern, high-speed rail system. On the other hand, said rail system comes with no Internet or phone support. I mean none. Zero. You must physically go to the train station to [...]