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How to travel with friends (and not want to kill them)

Jun 22, 2011 10:45:36 AM

How to travel with friends (and not want to kill them)

  • Leif Pettersen
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I have two permanent, oddly positioned bald spots on my head. Though my mother claims they’re from a scalp thing I had as a kid, I have it on good authority from my oracle that they’re probably where the Martians attached the electrodes.

However, spontaneous balding frequently has nothing to do with alien abduction. I’ve encountered many wretched travelers with unexplained bald spots formed during particularly challenging trips with incompatible friends. Whether they yanked that hair out during angry sleep or they were shaved by their vindictive companions is extraneous. What’s important is this hair-loss could have been easily avoided if these people had honestly communicated their travel styles and priorities during the trip planning stages.

Even your closest friend of 20 years, who saved your dog with mouth-to-mouth and donated a kidney to your sister (or vice-versa), can sometimes drive you to a stuttering rage while on the road. The divergent day-to-day circumstances of travel can expose and magnify irritations and disparities you never knew existed. And that’s if you’re compatible. If you’re not compatible, sooner or later that corkscrew you packed may be used for removing things its designers never intended.

Countless tent-pole duels to the death might have been prevented with pre-trip contemplation and dialogues. Some of the more pertinent criteria to consider in advance include:

1. Natural selection

Spontaneity during travel is great, but not so much when selecting a travel companion. Pick a friend whose company you consistently enjoy in a variety of situations. More often than not, blasting off with someone you don’t already know well is going result in trip-curdling disharmony. That includes your drinking buddy, that smokin’ hot babe you’ve dated for two weeks, and even the achingly attractive, witty, travel writer you met in the hostel’s breakfast room.

2. Setting expectations

Discuss your general vision of the trip. Vacation? Work trip? Urban exploration? Beaches? If one person is a go-go-go, see-see-see type and the other is a chill-at-sidewalk-cafes type, friction will quickly arise. And have you ever seen control freaks travel together? Messy. Carefully consider what you’d like to accomplish on your trip and communicate this with your prospective co-pilot.

3. Budgets

The last straw for many strong relationships has occurred while standing on a busy street in pouring rain, two miles from the hostel, when one person would rather walk, saving the €1.50 bus fare, and the other just wants to be dry. Ditto for the salivating foodie whose friend can only afford self-catered bread and jam dinners. Before you start planning, establish each other’s comfort preferences and available funds for things like accommodation, food and transport.

4. Divide and conquer

It’s perfectly fine to split up when you’d each prefer to do other things. Resentment grows quickly when one person is made to feel like they are catering to the other person’s itinerary too frequently. Equally, splitting up, whether it’s for three hours or three days, will soothe mounting frustrations. It’s not a sign of trouble or failure, it’s just good policy. Additionally, you’ll have copious stories to share when you reunite.

5. Night and day

A discussion about daily routines is a good idea. An incurable night owl is going to wear down a morning person in a hurry.

6. Be considerate

After you’ve found the right companion, a little on-the-road finesse is essential. Be conscience of your companion’s mood and fatigue. Balance each other’s needs. Be neat. Don’t hog the bathroom. And for the love of Buddha, don’t bogart the wine.

Have you used any clever strategies to maintain friendship harmony while traveling?

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10 ways not to be a travel writer by Lonely Planet

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10 ways not to be a travel writer

Vivek WagleLonely Planet author

It’s the dream: travelling around the world and getting paid for it. Every day, thousands of aspiring travel journalists start up blogs, pitch pieces to editors and put pen to paper (at least metaphorically) in the hopes of making travel a full-time job.

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The good news is that it’s achievable. While only a select few attain the high life of sipping margaritas by the pool while churning out leisurely prose on their Macbooks, travel writing for a living is a real possibility for those who have the talent and are willing to put in some really, really hard work.

However, we’ve noticed that there is a subclass of potential travel writers, photographers and video journalists who don’t really seem to have their heart in it. For some reason, they do their best to sabotage any chance of success. We believe you can learn a lot from them, so we’ve put together a list of their most common traits. Engage in these behaviours and you’re pretty much guaranteed to lock yourself out of a career in travel journalism.

10. Be sloppy

Whether you’re pitching a 500-word essay to the New Yorker or dashing off a quick blog entry, you’re presenting your professional face to the world. Is it the best face possible?

No one is perfect, and everyone except the stodgiest subeditor will forgive the occasional typo. But when you’re an aspiring content creator, any form of communication you produce becomes part of your portfolio. If your work is amateurish in quality, don’t expect to be paid for it.

9. Treat your pieces as personal journals

If you’ve started up a blog to keep your friends and family informed about your travels, go crazy! But all too often, we see works that are all about the creator and not at all about providing real value to the audience. They have the stink of those WhatWeDidOnOurFamilyVacation slideshows that everyone used to dread.

Use Facebook or personal blogs to reassure your mother and make your friends jealous. Use the avenue from which you hope to derive income to inform, educate, entertain or otherwise improve the lives of your audience.

8. Be flaky

Have you promised an editor that you’ll have that sample in for next week? Have you told your blogging audience, ‘Stay tuned for a big post tomorrow?’ Then please deliver. Nothing alienates people more than broken promises. Editors have tight, busy schedules and they are primarily concerned with getting great content out on time. Your audience has a ton of options vying for their attention, and if you fail to earn their trust they will go elsewhere.

7. Act like a jerk

You’d think this one would be obvious. But we’re constantly surprised by content creators who appear to lack any respect for those who are there to help them.

Here are a few simple tips:

  • Don’t call your editors names or make bombastic demands from them. (Any reasonable editor will listen to calm, professionally delivered opinion, but no one wants to be yelled at.)
  • Don’t belittle the people who comment on your website.
  • Don’t be rude in any form of communication with anyone who might have anything to do with your getting your work published. These people are here to help you live your dream. Don’t ruin it for yourself.

6. Stay shallow and general rather than building expertise

Bill Bryson may be able to say anything he likes about whatever he likes (no matter how general), but you can’t just go out and make observations about ‘stuff’. Build your niche and establish your credibility in it – this is crucial to earning trust. Are you THE authority on hiking in northern Spain? Are you an incredible wildlife photographer? Are your videos mordantly funny? Figure out what it is you’re amazing at, and go after that. Once you’ve established your area of expertise, you can begin branching out. But start focused.

5. Demand respect without earning it

Not too long ago, having your words on a printed page provided an instant credibility boost. But nowadays, anyone can self-publish – to the web, to ebook readers and even to print-on-demand machines. What this means is that you need to provide better evidence for your claims to expertise than being a published writer. Have you won any credible awards? Can you demonstrate having a large following? Have you produced something truly meaningful? If you can answer ‘yes’ to these questions, then let people know! And if you can’t, get to work on it. We’d all love to be paid $5 per word, but before you get there you need to demonstrate your value for more realistic returns.

4. Lack voice and personality

Most travel writing is insanely boring. If you can make someone smile, cry or act, you’re well ahead of the game. Gimmicks and tricks can help, but it will come down to how authentic you are. If you don’t put enough of yourself in your work, your travel content will be as woeful as the rest of the dross that pollutes the travel-blogging universe, and even the Travel Literature section of your local bookstore. Please be interesting.

3. Act without integrity

Trading unverified links with others to bolster your search-engine juice? Made deals with the devil (eg sketchy ‘advertisers’ who put malware on people’s machines)? Lied about your accomplishments – such as where you’ve been? Making promises you can’t keep to your editors and audience?

Sorry – there’s just no room in the travel-content community for you. Get out.

2. Ignore or disrespect your audience

Your audience is by far the most important factor in your success as a travel journalist. And yet we so often come across people who have no idea whom they’re writing, photographing or making videos for. If you don’t know who is going to consume your content, you haven’t targeted it appropriately. And you’ve demonstrated that your priorities are all wrong.

If you’re pitching or creating a piece, make sure you know exactly whom it’s intended for. (Case in point: if you’ve read this far down this list, then this list is DEFINITELY intended for you.)

1. Never try

Of all the mistakes aspiring travel writers make, none is more catastrophic than failing to enter the game.

It’s not an easy life. It requires a lot of talent, determination, perseverance and resilience. But the world is full of people who turn their travels into a living – through blogging, professional writing, video journalism and beyond. There are more resources than ever available to those who wish to travel for a living. If it’s what you want to do, then go for it.

What do you think?

Naples Tango News of the Week By Helaine !

Friday, May 13, 2011


Three days ago my brother left Naples to go abroad for an undetermined amount of time for his work and to reconnect with friends and colleagues.  He’s gone to an environment very different from that of SW Florida.  I miss him already, but I feel excited for him, and I can already imagine the “vibrational effervescence” (I made that up) that can fill one’s life when traveling and when living in another country.

A new vibrational effervescence can occur when one goes away on vacation or on a business trip, which is why traveling can be so exciting and stimulating. But what I’m calling “vibrational effervescence” (what would YOU call it?) can take on even greater meaning when we are not a tourist, a short-term house guest, or a hotel guest on business, but when we  become a temporary or occasional resident who seeks to integrate into the everyday life of the place.  When we take an apartment in another country with its different language, customs, and products, where the air in the street smells different, where the people have a different way of composing their facial muscles when at rest or when they talk, where they keep a different degree of closeness or distance when they speak with each other, where idioms in their everyday talk reveal the deep values of a people  . . . in our experience changing location for an extended period of time, for us, whether we’re a newcomer to the place or one who returns, the new quotidian can either be exotic or a familiar recollection brought back to life.

I wanted to share with you my excitement for the creative opportunities opening up to my brother now just because he got up and moved to another part of the world for a while.

It dawned on me as I was writing this message that I am particularly excited about my brother’s decision to relocate and integrate into a different culture for a chunk of time because it foreshadows my own establishing a seasonal residence in Buenos Aires at the end of the year!  And it reminds me of the creative life that this will make possible for me, and for some of my now and future North American students.  I chose to work with Nancy Landi, a porteña – a Buenos Aires native, to help me and later my students with the logistics of living in Buenos Aires, and thereby minimize the touristic aspect of the experience and maximize the vibrational effervescence that will come from our authentically participating in another culture, specifically the culture that over 100 years ago gave birth to Tango.

Nancy wrote me in an email this week:
“. . .  you must know and live the road and the motor of Buenos Aires if you are dancing tango. Same for your pupils. To be in contact with the real culture (kind of glasses, plates, services at the apartments, maid service, neighbors, door man: all of them from BA) is not to be in an American hotel where everything (employees too) are Americans.  So, for sure I recomend an apartment to drink the culture and show it in your dance because the culture is in your skin . . . ”

Nancy, for starters I’d like a sunny kitchen and a balcony with a view, please, close to a great produce market. :)

I just found this delightful blog by a young Asian, relocated to Buenos Aires, who calls herself “Buenos Aires Foodie”, and shares her discoveries of the culinary world of this city.  If you’re wondering about life in BsAs and want to see gorgeous photos of mouth-watering foods, accompanied by witty comments, please go here:  http://aayudame.wordpress.com/category/the-piglet-oinking/eating-out/.  I suggest you visit all the sections of her blog.

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To go directly to today’s feature article,  “The Second Tango Sin . . . and its antidote”, please scroll down toward the bottom of this page!

For my readers who are fascinated by tango but don’t have patience to scroll down to read the “Second Sin” article, here’s the video I chose as today’s example:

Have fun, but to find out who they are, you’ll have to scroll down to the article.
I also give our men a fun assignment.

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Naples Tango News of the Week

New elite study programs with Helaine in Naples/Buenos Aires
Starting June 2011

As you surely know by now, in my new Naples/Buenos Aires VIP program, I will teach  my entire 9-module “Permission Seduction™ Tango Learning System”, normally a 2- or 3-year course of study, in just 6-8 months, with the final month in Buenos Aires!  You can read more about it at http://naplesbavipprogram.blogspot.com/

This program is for people who would like to visit Buenos Aires and participate in its authentic tango world, not as a tourist or a shy beginner, but as a competent dancer of social tango who will feel comfortable on the dance floor in the midst of the locals.  I’m sure you’ve had some experiences of visiting a city as a tourist, and other experiences of visiting a place as guests of a local person or family who led you to experience the best of their town as only an “insider” can do.  I’m offering the latter kind of experience, including some intimate dinners and other private time with my own friends and teachers who are world class tango artists.

Nancy Landi, http://www.nancylandi.com/, a native of Buenos Aires who lives in Naples and specializes in Buenos Aires apartments, is helping me put together a special infrastructure in Buenos Aires to support every aspect of the local travel and daily living needs of my VIP students.

To learn even more about what this unique program can do for you, please go to http://naplestango.genbook.com,  or click on the “Book now” button anywhere on my website, to set up a free, 15-20 minute telephone or in-person session with me, to discuss your needs and desires, and get answers to all your questions about how my program can help you fulfill them!  I can only accept up to three individuals or couples this year for my intensive VIP Program, but I have decided to also offer the month in Buenos Aires to 3 more from my Diamond Accelerated Program, which is somewhat less intensive than the VIP program.

If this program is not for you, but you know someone who may be interested, you may enjoy a generous Referral Reward as my thanks for your helping me find one of the right people or couples for this very special program!  To make a referral or to find out more about how the Referral Rewards program works, please go to  contact me at 239-776-6535 or at helaine@naplestango.com.

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10 places of myth and legend by Lonely Planet

Snow covers the village of Shangri-la in November

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Snow covers the village of Shangri-la in November

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  • Fishing dhows, Zanzibar Channel.
  • Sign to the Tomb of Ramsses VIII in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor.
  • The face of Agamemnon (son of Atreus, brother of Menelaos, one of the leaders of the Greek expedition to Troy to reclaim Helen) in the Athens National Archaeological Museum.
  • The Sankore Mosque, Timbuktu at sunset. The 16th century structure is one of the oldest mosques in West Africa and was renowned as a place of Arabic learning in the Muslim world.
  • Remains of medieval Church of St Michael,  Glastonbury Tor.
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Even though we can get to the other side of the world in less than a day, there are still places that resist becoming everyday. Over the centuries they have accumulated tall stories like Manhattan accumulates tall buildings. So pack your compass, reading glasses and imagination for a journey to sites of myth and legend. Here are ten places that are caught in the imagination more tightly than on any map.

Zanzibar, Tanzania

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Just the name ‘Zanzibar’ conjures images of harem girls giggling behind gauzy veils, carved wooden doors opening to spice-filled rooms and other images from The Thousand and One Nights. Only in this case, they’re not fiction. Zanzibar grew into a powerful city state between the 12th and 15th centuries, sending ships laden with slaves, gold, ivory and wood to Arabia and beyond. Eventually the Sultan of Oman moved his court here – 100 concubines and eunuchs included – and started Zanzibar’s famous clove plantations. He’s long gone, but an Arabic influence and the scent of sweet spice still lingers over the sultry island.

El Dorado, Colombia

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Veiled behind vine-draped trees deep in the Amazon jungle gleams a dazzling kingdom of gold. Or so the story goes. When the Spanish conquistadors caught wind of El Dorado (literally ‘The Golden One’) after washing up on Colombia’s shores in the 1500s, they scattered like frenzied piranhas to find it. They began in the Andean highlands, and whacked through the forests of Peru, Venezuela and Guyana over the next two centuries in their savage quest. No one ever found the fabled city, perhaps because it has the ability to retreat from unworthy seekers.

Valley Of The Kings, Egypt

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On the west bank of the Nile River, across from the city of Luxor, lies the final resting place of Egypt’s pharaohs. You know the guys – Ramses the Great, Tuthmosis, and the funkiest pharaoh of all, King Tut. They ruled between 1500 and 1000 BC, pooh-poohing pyramids for elaborate tombs carved into the valley’s rocky hills. More than 60 chambers have been unearthed so far, containing mummies in gilt sarcophagi, bejewelled statues and a curse that lands on those who dare disturb the graves. Visitors remain undeterred, as the valley ranks as one of Egypt’s top attractions.

Ys, France

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Celtic Princess Dahut asked her dad, King Gradlon, to build her a city by the sea. Ys sprung up, and to protect it from the high waves, the king built a dyke around it. The sole entrance was through a brass gate, and only Gradlon had the key. Meanwhile Dahut, taking advantage of her new digs, chose a different lover every night and had him killed afterward. Eventually a demon outwitted her, persuaded her to steal the key, and opened the gate. Ys flooded, and everyone drowned except Gradlon. The ruined city lies beneath the bay at Douarnenez, now a popular beach town in Brittany.

Troy, Turkey

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Fans of mythology will recognise Troy as the old stomping grounds of folks like Hector, Paris and Helen, as well as one giant wooden horse. The city was ground zero for the Trojan War, sparked when Paris kidnapped Helen from her kingly husband in Greece. The Greeks ganged up and sailed straight over to Troy, determined to kick ass. And they did, especially after Odysseus Trojan Horse idea. Modern-day visitors can tromp around the walls, temples and ruins at the area, also known as Truva, in Turkey’s northwest corner.

Karakorum, Mongolia

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Genghis Khan set up house here in the mid-13th century, then headed out to conquer half the world. Karakorum was his Mongol capital and became known as the Empire of the Steppe. Alas, the glory didn’t last long – about 30 years, in fact – and then the city was destroyed. Current visitors will need to muster serious imagination to envisage the great walls and gates that once encircled the place. Many bits were incorporated into the nearby Erdene Zuu monastery’s long white walls and 108 stupas.

Carthage, Tunisia

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Located on the outskirts of modern Tunis, Carthage was a city-state superpower and the archenemy of Rome during the 3rd century BC. Its might came from a killer navy of Phoenician ships that patrolled the Mediterranean Sea, and an army of elephants that marched over mountains with a military commander named Hannibal. Despite being dubbed ‘the shining city’, Carthage couldn’t hold on for long. The Romans stormed in and razed it, ultimately building their own city on the site. It’s their baths, houses, cisterns and basilicas that visitors see today.

Timbuktu, Mali

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A byword for ‘place that’s way the hell out there’, Timbuktu earned its reputation early on as the terminus of a rich trade route linking West Africa and the Mediterranean. All you had to do to get your gold, slaves and ivory north (or salt to come south) was join a camel caravan and plod for months across the Sahara through sandstorms, blazing heat and insanity-inducing isolation. It’s still a mighty trek to reach Timbuktu, and though salt caravans continue to pass through led by blue-clad Tuaregs, the city only hints at its 15th-century grandeur of wealthy merchants and mosques.

Avalon, England

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King Arthur rests on the enchanted isle of Avalon, sleeping off the wounds accrued during a lifetime of knights, crusades, sorcerers, Round Tables and magical swords. As Britain’s ‘once and future king’, it is said he will return wielding Excalibur and the Holy Grail to unite his country when it needs him most. Today the modern town of Glastonbury spreads over the site where Avalon once floated. True to its mystic roots, it attracts free spirits who come to buy crystals, consult with psychics, lick vegan ice-cream cones or attend crop-circle symposiums.

Shambhala, Tibet

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The kingdom of Shambhala hides somewhere deep within the snow-stained peaks of the Himalayas. An enlightened, peaceful ‘Pure Land’ of Buddhist lore, it can be reached only by individuals who have racked up the appropriate karma. Explorers in the past century have set out to find Shambhala in Tibet, which is also where James Hilton placed it in his novel Lost Horizon (under the name of Shangri-la). Since no one has yet discovered the kingdom, perhaps the next best thing is the town of Zhongdian on the China–Tibet border. It was renamed Shangri-la in 2001, claiming to be the place’s inspiration.

The best countries for food by Lonely Planet

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The best countries for food

Steaming street food. 

Food and travel go together like planes and airports. No matter where you go you’ll have little trouble finding at least one culinary experience that will help you understand the local culture. In some countries the food is the highlight, drawing many a foodie to its borders, like a moth to a flame. Here are 11 countries (in no particular order) that your taste buds will thank you for visiting.

1. Thailand


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Standing at the crossroads of India, China and Oceania, Thai cuisine is like a best-of of all three’s techniques and ingredients. Dishes generally go in hard with garlic and chillies (especially the phrik khii nuu variety, which literally translates as ‘mouseshit peppers’). Other signature ingredients include lime juice, coriander and lemon grass, which give the cuisine its characteristic tang. Legendary fish sauce or shrimp paste looks after the salt.

2. Greece


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From olives to octopus, the true taste of Greece depends on fresh, unadulterated staples. Masking or complicating original flavours is not the done thing, especially when you’re dealing with oven-fresh bread, rosy tomatoes and fish fresh from the Mediterranean. The midday meal is the main event with a procession of goodies brought to the table as they’re ready. With Wednesday and Friday traditionally reserved as fast days (ie no-meat days), vegetarians are also looked after.

3. China


From back-alley dumpling shops to four-star banquet halls, China has one of the world’s finest palates. Cultural precepts of Yin and Yang (balance and harmony) are evident in the bowl: with food for the day including cooling foods such as vegetables and fruit to counter warming spices and meat. The Chinese revere rice but also choose noodles, with either almost always accompanying a meal. A range of regional specialities exist, variously influenced by geography and history.

4. France


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From cheese and champagne to snails and baguettes, the French are famous for their foodstuffs. French cuisine has long distinguished itself for dallying with a great variety of foods. Each region’s distinct climate and geography have influenced the array of regional specialities. Many in France consider lunch as the day’s main meal, though the two hour marathon meal is increasingly rare. The crowning meal is a fully fledged home-cooked dinner comprising six distinct plats (courses).

5. Spain


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Best in Barcelona, Catalan cooking is racking up the accolades from gourmands around the globe. Like other regional Spanish cuisines, Catalan cooking favours spices such as saffron and cumin, as well as honeyed sweets. A mixture of ingredients and traditions adds flair to Barcelona’s fare: using seafood and meats in a rich array of sauces. Dinner is the main event, but never before 9pm.

6. Mexico


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Would you like some magic-realism with that enchilada? The Mexican sensibility for enchanting influences is also brought to the table in its food, particularly during celebrations. Mexican cuisine has an overriding Spanish influence, with a twist of French and African thanks to its history. Corn and bean-based dishes are prominent – prepared in a multitude of world renowned ways including tacos, enchiladas and quesadillas. And who could forget the worm that waits at the bottom of a bottle of Mezcal?

7. Italy


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Its food is arguably Italy‘s most famous export, and it’s with good reason that the world wants it. Despite all the variations that exist between regions, some common staples bind the country’s culinary creations. Think thin-crust pizza and al dente pastas and risottos. And to drink? One word: coffee. The Italians do it best – from perfecting a distinguished roast to the gentle extraction of its essence into the cup. Perfecto!

8. India


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India’s protean gastronomy changes shape as you move between neighbourhoods, towns and states. The basis of all meals is rice in the south, and roti in the north. These are generally partnered with dhal, vegetables and chutney. Fish or meat may also be added. Whatever the ingredients: the dish usually contains a heady cast of exotic spices that make the taste buds stand up and take notice.

9. Japan


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If you can wrap your tongue around pronouncing the menu, Japan’s cuisine is a most rewarding mouthful. Most Japanese restaurants concentrate on a specialty cuisine, such as yakitori (skewers of grilled chicken or veg), sushi and sashimi (raw fish), tempura (lightly battered and fried ingredients) and ramen noodle bars. The pinnacle of Japanese cooking, kaiseki (derived as an adjunct to the tea ceremony), combines ingredients, preparation, setting and ceremony over several small courses to distinguish the gentle art of eating.

10. Indonesia & Malaysia


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Indonesian and Malaysian cuisines are one big food swap: Chinese, Portuguese, Indian, colonists and traders have all influenced their ingredients and culinary concepts. They are nations well represented by their food. The abundance of rice is characteristic of the region’s fertile terraced landscape, the spices are reminiscent of a time of trade and invasion (the Spice Islands), and fiery chilli echoes the people’s passion. Indonesian and Malaysian cooking is not complex, and tastes here stay separate, simple and substantial.


Cine argentino: Lo que viene en 2011

Comienza la temporada fuerte de estrenos en un año que superará nuevamente el centenar de propuestas locales, entre dramas de época, comedias y documentales

Jueves 17 de marzo de 2011 | Publicado en edición impresa
Cine argentino: Lo que viene en 2011

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Claudio D. Minghetti
LA NACION

En 2010, en 832 salas, se vieron 328 películas de estreno, que fueron a ver 38 millones de espectadores, dejando una recaudación de 174 millones de dólares. De ese paquete, 114 títulos fueron nacionales, que llevaron a las salas 3,4 millones de espectadores, con una recaudación de 15 millones de dólares. Las películas más convocantes fueron Igualita a mí (830.000 entradas vendidas) y Carancho , con 615.000. Las dos tuvieron apoyo de la TV en sus lanzamientos. Otras películas, como el dibujo animado en 3D Gaturro y la comedia Dos hermanos, superaron cómodamente los 100.000 espectadores. En 2010, el cine local se quedó con el 9% del mercado cinematográfico (según datos del Boletín del Observatorio del Cine y el Audiovisual).

Los números hablan de números, pero no de contenidos ni otros temas relacionados con la calidad de un film. Hubo una buena cantidad de cine nacional presente en salas, no obstante una buena porción (alrededor del 40%) se proyectó por fuera de los circuitos comerciales (como los espacios del Incaa, Malba, Proa, el flamante Cosmos-UBA y algunos otros). Del total recaudado por las películas en 2010, alrededor del 9% fue para las producciones locales. Demasiados títulos no llegaron a los 10.000 espectadores. Y aquí surge un problema, cuando ya se anuncian tantas o más producciones que las de un año como el que pasó, que fue récord histórico en estrenos. Es que la exhibición sigue siendo un tema difícil de resolver.

Mientras el cine local sigue en la casi utópica tarea de recuperar un público propio, cientos de cineastas buscan diferentes alternativas para que sus películas no sólo se terminen sino que, además, se estrenen con alguna repercusión.

El 2011 comenzó con el estreno de títulos como La vieja de atrás, Sudor frío y Fase 7, y hoy mismo de Familia para armar (ver aparte), y seguirá, la semana que viene, con comedias dramáticas como Un cuento chino, de Sebastián Borensztein, con Ricardo Darín y Huang Sheng. En abril llegará Los Marziano, de Ana Katz, con Guillermo Francella, Rita Cortese y Mercedes Morán. Para septiembre quedó Querida voy a comprar cigarrillos y vuelvo, la última de Mariano Cohn y Gastón Duprat (El hombre de al lado), con Emilio Disi, Darío Lopilato y Eusebio Poncela, según un cuento inédito de Alberto Laiseca.

Si bien hay todavía incertidumbre con respecto a las fechas y lugares de estreno (en especial para las más independientes), un largo listado incluye más de un centenar de títulos, como la docena de preestrenados en Pantalla Pinamar y la veintena que irán desde el 7 de abril en diferentes secciones del Bafici (como Vaquero, el debut como director de Juan Minujin).

La comedia, por lo dicho, es un género que crece acompañando el crecimiento de la producción local y tendrá, por lo que se anticipa en 2011, un año para recordar. Otro de los esperados ejemplos en esta línea es Juntos para siempre, de Pablo Solarz, con Peto Menahem, Malena Solda y Florencia Peña. Pero no es el único, porque en la lista también están Las viudas, de Marcos Carnevale, con Graciela Borges y Valeria Bertuccelli, y Cruzadas, de Diego Rafecas, con Moria Casán, Nacha Guevara y Enrique Pinti.

Vuelven las “de época”Entre las películas con recreación de viejos tiempos, costosas precisamente por esa característica, figuran seis adaptaciones y un guión original. Las adaptaciones coincidentes con el Bicentenario son la varias veces postergada La revolución es un sueño eterno, de Nemesio Juárez, de acuerdo con el relato de Andrés Rivera; La patria equivocada, de Carlos Galettini, según el libro de Dalmiro Sáenz, con Juana Viale, en este caso junto a Adrián Navarro; Aballay, el hombre sin miedo, de Fernando Spiner, según el cuento de Antonio Di Benedetto, y El Fausto criollo, de Fernando Birri, según Estanislao del Campo. También de época, pero en la década del 50 del siglo XX, transcurre El derrotado, de Javier Torre, también con Navarro, en este caso con Romina Gaetani, que toma una trama imaginada por su padre, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, y Dormir al sol, de Alejandro Chomski, con Luis Machín y Florencia Peña, que recrea la historia original de Adolfo Bioy Casares, ubicada al filo de la década del 60.

Histórica pero sin bronce se anuncia Revolución: el cruce de los Andes, con Rodrigo de la Serna (que irá el 14 de abril). Todavía en preproducción, Aníbal Uset eligió Polvo y espanto, de Abelardo Arias, con el título Agustina, 1841, con Charo López. Y de alguna forma también recrea viejos tiempos la animación de marionetas stop motion Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe, del uruguayo Walter Tournier, en coproducción.

En materia de cineastas debutantes, la lista aporta los nombres de Santiago Giralt, que volverá a la pantalla con Antes del verano; Victoria Galardi hará otro tanto con Cerro Bayo, mientras que Miguel Angel Rocca eligió el tema del abuso sexual en el seno de una familia con La mala verdad, protagonizada por Alberto de Mendoza.

Entre los consagrados, Carlos Sorín apuesta por el suspenso con El gato desaparece; mientras que Daniel Burman repetirá el tono acomediado de sus anteriores propuestas en All In, que estará lista para estrenarse en diciembre.

Este año, Luis Ortega (que viene de estrenar Los santos sucios) llegará con Verano maldito, su “versión” de un relato de Yukio Mishima con las actuaciones de su hermana Julieta Ortega, Joaquín Furriel y Alejandro Urdapilleta. Pablo César ambientó el drama Orillas en Dock Sud y Benín, en Africa, país con el que armó una coproducción (la primera argentina con un país africano), para la que contó con actuaciones de Dalma Maradona y Javier Lombardo, mientras que Eliseo Subiela anuncia dos títulos para 2011, a saber: Rehén de ilusiones, con Daniel Fanego, y Paisajes devorados.

Ariel Wynograd volverá con Mi primera boda, reunión de los uruguayos Natalia Oreiro y Daniel Hendler (ahora en rodaje). La primera también es de la partida en Infancia clandestina, de Benjamín Avila (en posproducción), y más adelante lo será en Wakolda, de Lucía Puenzo (estos dos últimos títulos fueron producidos por su padre, Luis Puenzo, quien a su vez piensa llevar a la pantalla, finalmente, El niño argentino, con Mike Amigorena). Oreiro también será una justiciera en Mala, de Israel Caetano, una vez el director concluya el documental acerca del ex presidente Néstor Kirchner que acaba de comenzar.

De Hendler se estrenará (después de pasar por el Bafici) además su ópera prima como director, Norberto apenas tarde, sobre un tardío aspirante a actor, filmada íntegramente en Uruguay. La vuelta del año será la de Alejandro Agresti, que actualmente filma en Buenos Aires con el norteamericano John Cusack.

También se esperan óperas primas como El agua del fin del mundo, de Paula Siero, con Facundo Arana; Medianeras, de Gustavo Taretto; Caño dorado, de Eduardo Pinto, y De caravana, de Rosendo Ruiz, las dos vistas en el festival de Mar del Plata, y unos cuantos documentales.

En este último género se destacan los de Eduardo Montes Bradley (Waissman, acerca del artista plástico); de Pino Solanas (Tierra sublevada: oro negro); Ulises de la Orden (Tierra adentro); Miguel Rodríguez Arias (Rotas cadenas y Civiles y militares), un compilado con trabajos de Mariana Arruti y Carmen Guarini, entre otros (D-Humanos), y hasta un documental sobre Cumbio, titulado Soi Cumbio, de Andrea Yanino, cuyo estreno mundial tendrá lugar la semana próxima en el Festival de Málaga.

GONZALEZ AMER: ” ES UN TEMA QUE ME APASIONA”En 2007, el escritor Edgardo González Amer (El probador de muñecas, La mujer perfecta, La danza de los torturados) sorprendió con su ópera prima, El infinito sin estrellas, en la que abordaba el tema de una familia acorralada por el drama de sobrevivir. Ahora, en Familia para armar, encuadra a otro tipo de núcleo que también carga historias a cuestas.

“La familia es un subgénero -asegura González Amer en diálogo con LA NACION-. Uno vive rodeado de familias disfuncionales y por más que uno pelee por la cohesión de la propia familia, pareciera ser que tienden a dispararse hacia la disfuncionalidad. A lo largo del tiempo he visto muchas chicas abandonadas por sus padres, casos de olvido extremo, muchas veces dañino”, dice. “Escribí varios cuentos con esta temática, siempre tratando de ver qué pasa en la persona que abandona, cuál puede ser la motivación que lo lleve a alejarse de un hijo, por qué alguien desaparece para siempre de la vida de una persona que ama y le es necesaria. Mi idea con esta película es acercarme a esa verdad -insiste-. Mi interés era contar a través de lo implícito antes que con lo explícito; no sé si eso es acertado o equivocado, pero si fue una elección muy pensada, algo riesgosa, pero me parece que más efectiva. Quería hacer una película de silencios, de espera, y no poner todo en palabras. Los actores, además, se entregaron cada uno y en bloque, como la familia de actores que conforman”, concluye.

Buenos Aires de fiesta! De Toulouse-Lautrec a Picasso: el Malba festeja sus 10 años de vida

Obras de los siglos XVIII y XIX / No se exponían desde hace tres décadas 

LA NACION
Se inauguró ayer una exhibición de 85 trabajos realizados en papel por grandes artistas
Jueves 17 de marzo de 2011 | Publicado en edición impresa
De Toulouse-Lautrec a Picasso: el Malba festeja sus 10 años de vida 

Uno de los grabados, bajo la mirada de expertos y visitantes. Ver más fotos

Julieta Molina
LA NACION

Para una institución privada dedicada al arte, cumplir diez años de vida no sólo es motivo de alegría y orgullo. También es la confirmación de que sus propuestas culturales han encontrado como respuesta un público tan ávido como exigente.

El Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) cumple este año una década de vida, y para celebrarlo realizará cuatro grandes exposiciones. Hoy, a las 19, se inaugura la primera de ellas: Papeles modernos, de Toulouse-Lautrec a Picasso .

Con la curación de Angel Navarro, la muestra con la cual la Fundación Constantini comienza sus festejos es una selección de ochenta y cinco trabajos en papel, realizados por artistas europeos de fines del siglo XVIII y la primera mitad del XIX.

Las obras pertenecen al Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes y muchas de ellas no eran exhibidas desde hacía tres décadas. Todas pertenecen al gabinete de dibujos y estampas, creado en 1896, pero actualmente cerrado.

La exposición marca además el puntapié inicial de una alianza entre el Malba, LA NACION y Telefé. Como parte de esa iniciativa, por la cual LA NACION se desempeñará como media partner del Malba, se realizará durante el año y en el auditorio del museo el “Ciclo de adn .cultura”, que cubrirá un amplio espectro de manifestaciones culturales.

La muestra artística inaugurada ayer, que cuenta con el apoyo de Citi, incluye, además de obras de Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec y Pablo Picasso, trabajos de Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, James Ensor, Georges Rouault, Honoré Daumier, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Braque, Käthe Kollwitz y Paul Klee, entre otros.

“Elegimos estos siglos porque los trabajos en papel de esa época, en general, están poco estudiados y, fundamentalmente, porque estos artistas son el umbral de los contemporáneos, que los miran a ellos”, detalló a LA NACION Angel Navarro.

“Desde tiempos lejanos, el papel ha sido el gran compañero de los artistas; para esbozar la primera idea de una gran obra o como elemento fundamental de una pieza definitiva”, afirmó el curador.

“La muestra está organizada por el rol del papel. Primero, por el uso que los artistas le dan -todos en algún momento lo utilizan- y después como medio de difusión, cuando a partir del siglo XIX su fabricación fue más sencilla, más económica y se agrandó el tamaño de las hojas, antes tan pequeñas y caras que los artistas utilizaban el derecho y el revés de la hoja”, añadió.

Con siete ejes temáticos, la muestra incluye estudios, desnudos, la figura individual y en grupos, retratos, la elocuencia de la imagen, los paisajes urbanos y el papel como medio de difusión.

Joyas

Integran esta exposición joyas del patrimonio histórico mundial, como dibujos de 1900 realizados por Picasso para ilustrar un libro de Honoré Balzac; un estudio de Giorgio De Chirico que incluye un figurín de un centímetro de altura; tres estudios de desnudos de Rodin de 1900; un Picasso abstracto que lleva a la mínima expresión los rasgos de su mujer; un paisaje urbano del escritor Federico García Lorca y muchas otras obras.

Pueden verse bocetos con un nivel de detalle impactante, como uno de Mario Sironi. Según explicó el curador: “Frente al avance del coleccionismo, los dibujos/bocetos pasaron a ser obras de arte en sí mismas”. La selección de trabajos permite también observar en las figuras la búsqueda de los artistas por crear un clima, transmitir una sensación o la psicología de su personaje, detalló Navarro. Un ejemplo claro de este ejercicio es la obra de Au mont de Pietat, de 1850, que muestra el profundo abatimiento de una mujer que empeña sus objetos personales en el Monte Piedad, en un dibujo que carece de contexto casi por completo.

Se destacan obras como Bañista , de José Antonio Ramón Parra Menchón, realizada en tinta y témpera en 1960; Maternidad, de Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz, y un autorretrato de la misma artista de perfil, donde se observa un gesto triste de una mujer que ha perdido a un hijo y un nieto en la Primera y Segunda Guerra Mundial; un dibujo de Chagall de 1925, Mujer en el campo , donde puede verse a su mujer en gran tamaño y, casi imperceptibles, él y su hija en la parte inferior del papel.

La muestra contiene dibujos y grabados de gran calidad y poco exhibidos en la región: “En América latina, las generaciones anteriores no tenían interés en las obras de arte realizadas en papel, pero últimamente esta industria se ha revitalizado mucho”, afirmó Navarro.

MUESTRA EN EL GRAND PALAISPARIS (EFE).- Del encuentro fortuito a la amistad y el flechazo, la exposición Aimé Césaire, Lam, Picasso abrió ayer al público en el Grand Palais de la capital francesa. La muestra revela la fructífera relación mantenida por el poeta martiniqués, el gran pintor cubano y el maestro español. La serie de obras presentadas es el resultado de esos encuentros clave.

PARA AGENDAR85
Dibujos y grabados
Son obras en papel de artistas europeos del siglo XVIII y la primera mitad del siglo XIX

Inauguración . Hoy a las 19 en la sala 5 del Malba, en Figueroa Alcorta 3415, con entrada libre y gratuita.

Entradas . La muestra podrá visitarse hasta el 23 de mayo, de jueves a lunes y feriados, de 12 a 20 y los miércoles hasta las 21. La entrada tiene un valor de $ 22; para docentes, estudiantes y jubilados, $ 11.

Socios . Los 450.000 socios del Club LA NACION podrán acceder al beneficio del 2×1 en las entradas y descuentos en el Gift Shop. También habrá material editorial en el restaurante del museo.

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