Twin Truths

Travel Guide

The journey of  discovery takes her to Argentina, Brazil, Greece and the UK

Buenos Aires

“And so I came to Argentina – somewhere different and faraway – to getaway, to forget, to start again By the time, I had finished talking, the blue light of early morning was pushing down the edges of the tallest buildings, whitewashing over the concrete.”

Cafe con leche y media de manteca. Breakfast, Sitting outside at a pavement cafe in fresh Saturday sunlight. Alone with coffee and papers. I watched with interest the people who inhabit early Saturday morning in Beunos Aires.

Casa Rosada:

“The square needs crowds to breathe and the crowd was deeply engrained in the Argentine psyche” Someone in the novel sits here and thinks about Eva Peron and the history of Argentina.

“Buenos Aires had a way of making six degrees of separation feel vey evident. For al its sprawling size, social circles overlapped time and time again”

Brazil – Iguzu Falls

From Iguazo airport, we tool a tourist bus direct to the Brazilian side of the falls, where the hotel awaited us to extravagant ownership of a view to die for. Despite my heady start, despite all the pictures I had pored over, I was gob-smacked. A picture always limits. A picture cannot stretch from one blurred extreme of your range of vision to the other.It cannot sound and smell and engulf you. A picture after all, is just a symbol, a metaphor for something that cannot be translated. I faced the panorama of the falls, felt the continuous rain of gentle spray and listened to the incessant crescendo of falling water, in awe of the misterly monotony of this living , breathing view”

Greece

The sun is low in an orange sky. Heather stretches, blurred, into distant hills, and below us now is the sea, a dark desert in the shadows of sunset.”

“Later, we are sitting in a taverna, picking lazily at olives and a menu of fragmented conversation”