South America
23 Sep
Francis Mallmann’s Restaurant Garzon is arguably Uruguay’s best restaurant and one of the finest in all of South America. But what is less well known is that it is also one of the world’s most charming inns – an eatery (albeit a fine one) with a few rooms attached. 5 to be exact, each of which makes you want to settle in...
21 Sep
A child’s travels begin in the imagination, down the rabbit hole, in Mr. McGregor’s garden, under the floorboards, across a treasure island. We never forget our first destinations, the stories that have often taken us there and the frissons of emotion – fear, wonder, surprise, warmth – that subtly color every place we go thereafter.
25 May
Tenderness lives where the touch is lightest and the heart lingers. Souls speaking to each other in the quiet. It is a sharing, not a possessing, between two beings. Photographer: Asuncion Pineyrua Ballylinch Stud , Ireland http://lisalindblad.com/american-stories/lexington/
2 Dec
It’s a quiet time of year here in Garzon. Summer officially begins just after Christmas and “the season” – which extends for about 6 weeks – welcomes to the coast a flood of Brazilian and Argentine revelers and, to the pueblo here, the few foreigners who have fallen in love with its simplicity and calm. I come before the season begins...
16 Oct
13 Oct
Where else in the world would you find the bottom of your road blocked off by spreadeagled carcasses? At the Punta del Este Food & Wine Festival, set up in the Garzon villa square yesterday morning for the final event of the two-day event. By far the most successful venue of the weekend, the plaza never looked as wonderful, with long communal...
13 Oct
5 Apr
It took a birthday, a friend, and three sisters to lead me to UnderOurSky, a delicious (and dangerously desirous) website of beautiful objects. My birthday occurred in March when I was in Buenos Aires; my friend, Maita, in her inimitable generous fashion, dropped a present off at the hotel; the three sisters are Maita’s beautiful daughters and...
26 Mar
This is a place where land floats on water; where caimans soak in the shallows, and capybaras graze on flowers; where marsh deer nestle in tall grasses, and otters weave through the lagoons. This watery paradise of islands, lakes and marshes, planted with lilies and willows, ceibas and palms, is a Mecca for birds. And on the shore dart foxes, wildcats...
16 Mar
An hour and a half from Puerto Valle, In the Province of Misiones, is the authentic, family owned and run, Estancia Santa Cecilia. Occupied by the current family since 1950 – the house was constructed in 1908 – it’s principal industry is the raising of cattle and the growing of pine tree plantations. Eight years ago the mistress of...
16 Mar
This is another Argentina, a place remote and untrod, where water meets sky along a flat horizon, where land is not land as we know it, firm and hard, but rather a matrix of root and soil, supportive yet flexible, as bamboo is to pine. A place of capybaras, those strange yet strangely lovable giant rodents, and black caimans whose pert, upturned snouts...
14 Mar
Located 1.5 hours by flight north of Buenos Aires, in the Mesopotamia region of Argentina, is a remarkably rich and beautiful area called Esteros del Ibera. Still one of Argentina’s secret natural wonders, the Esteros del Iberá is a vast nature reserve of lagoons and marshes and home to an astonishing array of bird and animal life. The area...
9 Mar
Just a long weekend in Pueblo Garzon that was full of jaunts..to La Huella for Sunday lunch, of course, checking out Alium’s new look on the Garzon square (fabulous), a site inspection of the Vik’s new Bahia Vik and lunch at La Susana, their new beachside restaurant with Betancourt’s yummy food. But it is my furry friends that make...
8 Dec
There is much about Pueblo Garzon that is magical. It speaks to us in many different tongues, but for me, in the still of the night when the noise in the mind settles, it is the details of my life in the village, that come floating by. And then, of course, there are the smells and the sounds..Oh, those birds just before dawn, the bleating sheep...
25 Jun
The Maasai say: You know where you are coming from but not where you are going. Mysteries in the well of the past. The strivings and yearnings, the trials and errors – we have a beautiful planet strewn with Mementos of other times. They fire the imagination and move the human core. They help us understand the past and offer us a roadmap to the...
9 Jun
pergola in winter- Garzon. A short weekend in Pueblo Garzon. We spend four nights in Uruguay and make the most of it and love it. The weather is glorious – 60’s cloudless – and our friends, dear, sweet friends, are here living the real life, reminding us of what is important. One task at hand…this is the time to transplant,...
14 Feb
A drive up into the hills around Garzon to see the vineyards of Colinas de Garzon brought me face to face with him. And after I scratched his nose and he did his share of licking, I left him just as miserable as he was when I encountered him.
27 Dec
There is something healthy and invigorating about the Atlantic Coast. The ocean has character and mood. It is chock full of marine life whose remains wash up amidst the flotsam and jetsam in great long trails of beach combing heaven. Mussel shells, bleached vertebrae, beach glass, starfish arms lure me down the miles of beach and over tide...
25 Dec
One of my son’s passions is fishing. Bone fishing in Harbor Island, surf casting for stripers in Long Island, trolling for Nile Perch on Lake Victoria, rod and reel and line are the stuff of his dreams. So, on arrival at our house in Uruguay yesterday, we headed off to Tienda Ingles, the big shopping mall in Punta del Este, for fishing gear....
16 Jul
Perhaps the true test of any kind of love is that it endures in all seasons.
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