Recent Comments
- Stefanie on Send in the Clowns – well, maybe puppeteers
- Josephine S on Send in the Clowns – well, maybe puppeteers
- Planas on Glacial ages, climate changes, and the first humans (London and Me – supplement)
- Delessio on Conventions And Conversions
- Shoshana on Send in the Clowns – well, maybe puppeteers
Categories
- Arizona – Utah May and June 2017
- Balkans and Budapest 2016
- By Train From Beijing to Saint Petersburg 2013
- France – Performance Today Paris to Normandy and more Paris 2018
- Great River Road and More 2014
- Michigan October 2023
- My Stay in Malta – June 2012
- Olympic Host Cities & Me
- Other Trips
- Portugal Spring 2022
- Scotland and Scandinavia 2015
- South America 2019
- Two weeks in Lisbon 2022-23
- Uncategorized
- Vienna-Salzburg-Prague Spring 2022
- Western U.S. and Canada August and September 2017
- Winter in Lisbon 2023-2024
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Reclamation projects and other observations
https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DSCN2605-2-138x190.jpg
De facto or de jure. This description of La Paz requires you to make a judgment. If you search the internet for the term “highest capital in the world”, you will almost certainly see La Paz heading the list. The …
Posted in South America 2019
Leave a comment
Paraguay, Asunción and a significant ascent – part 3
https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/videoblocks-santa-cruz-de-la-sierra-flight-boarding-now-in-the-airport-terminal-travelling-to-bolivia-conceptual-intro-animation-3d-rendering_r3annilhz_thumbnail-f-190x107.png
Bolivia, Bolivia, have you met Bolivia. As I noted at the end of the previous post, for us, Paraguay was little more than a way stop between our days at Iguazú and our time in La Paz – the capital …
Posted in South America 2019
Leave a comment
Paraguay, Asunción and a significant ascent – part 2
https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DSCN2485-190x143.jpg
One final echo and a cautionary note. Previously I wrote about Fernando Lugo the one-time Catholic bishop who was elected president of Paraguay in 2008. Lugo’s election ended a 61-year hold on power by the Colorado Party and they were …
Posted in South America 2019
Leave a comment
Paraguay, Asunción and a significant ascent
https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1124px-1864_Mitchell_Map_of_Brazil_Bolivia_and_Chili_-_Geographicus_-_SouthAmericaSouth-mitchell-1864-171x190.jpg
I closed the previous post with a brief and superficial description of the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia. The context for this was to note that, while the country’s population had begun a slow recovery from the devastation of …
Posted in South America 2019
Leave a comment