Plaza de las Palmeras

The Pink Palace

February 4th 2015
Sunday 1st February 2015 Today we stood in the Government´s Pink Palace in Buenos Aries, looking out of one of the three windows which lead to the famous balcony, from whence Eva Perón spoke to her people, who were gathered in the Plaza de San Martín below. To stand where this remarkable woman had stood, was quite moving. The Palacio Rosado (The Pink Palace), is to Argentinians ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more

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Viv and John Cussell

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We are off island-hopping in Thailand for the month of February. We shall leave home on the 1st of the month and return on 29th (an extra day for Leap Year)! Our journey will be from Alicante to Barcelona by train, then two flights, the first from Barcelona to Doha and the second from Doha to Phuket, both with Qatar Airways. Although this will be our forth visit to the "Land of Smiles", we haven't been there for eleven years and plan to visit islands we haven't seen before. In 2009, we travelled overland from Singapore to the island of Langkawi, Northern Malaysia, in the Southern Andaman Sea. ... full info

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