Little chatting from BA Tuesday??

Hi Everyone,
I have just written this once and then deleted it - grr! The weather is getting hotter and the bin men have been on strike for 3 days. There are loads of demonstrations but it is hard to work out exactly why. There was a large one last night that I passed on my way home from tango and apparently one person was shot in a personal feud. No one seemed to be very surprised. The Labour party is aligned with the government which is right and the Mafia also plays its part. Who knows!

Last week-end I went out to Tigre which is on the River Plata. It has over 5000 islands where many portenos have their week-end houses. Some houses are still under construction, some very beautifully tended and some falling apart. I took a boat trip. For me it could be a perfect situation boats, water, swimming but the river is very polluted with hundreds of dead fish and others gasping for breath. Sad.

I am very impressed with the way that the potenos treat their disabled - electronic ramps on buses and at every junction there is a scooped out part of the pavement to allow for wheelchair access. However on the other side of life I have a lasting image of this poor man running barefoot away dressed only in binbags from head to foot - like some wild ghost haunting the streets.

This is just a short chat to let you all know I am alive and well - apart from Spanish doing my head in and being deconstructed with my tango - it will all pass and tomorrow is another day.

Lots of love to you all
Sal xxx