IMPRINTS By Antonio Ramblés AKA Tony Passarellowww.antoniorambles.comantonio.rambles@yahoo.com Gone full circle The Jalisco villages of Cajititlan and San Juan Evangelista face each other across a couple of kilometers of lake, but on the day of my visit they’re also separated by 300 years of Mexican history. I can’t take credit for planning this trip to
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Blind Spot Fiction by Antonio Ramblés Myra’s husband Paul had been dead nearly a year when a couple young enough to be her children moved into the long-vacant home next door. Throughout the long vacancy, a gardener had faithfully tended their yard, and while Myra often admired the flowers through its wrought-iron fence, she
Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Redeeming Works Alberto in the carpentry shop: Contagious enthusiasm Santa Cruz de la Soledad is less than 4 kilometers east of Chapala, but by many measures it’s separated from Chapala by light years. It sits back from the coastline, connected to a string of even more remote villages by
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Guanajuato’s Centro Historico Plaza de la Paz, Guanajuato, Mexico The first sight of Guanajuato is breathtakingly beautiful. Thousands of brightly colored buildings are draped across the hills like a mosaic carpet, and the colors are warm in the morning sunlight. It’s picture postcard perfect. Guanajuato has played an important
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Rivera’s Roots Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter whose large scale wall frescos dealt mostly with social and political themes arising from Mexico’s 1910 revolution. He painted in Mexico City and in the U.S. between 1922 and 1953, and was instrumental in establishing the Mural Movement in Mexican
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Lakeside’s new “virtual bookstore” promotes local authors By Antonio Ramblés English-language writers have been coming to Lake Chapala since D. H. Lawrence first visited and wrote about the area in 1923, but even many local writers are surprised to learn that nearly 200 books by over 50 Lakeside authors are currently available on Amazon.
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Shanghai’s Taikang Food Market I’m always drawn to local food markets. The Foodie in me is always intrigued by foods I’ve never before seen, and there’s no better way to get a candid look at everyday people than in a market. The Taikang Food Market in the French Concession
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Chinese Buddhism & Jade Buddha Temple Like the Yu Garden, Shanghai’s Jade Buddha Temple is an island of tranquility in an urban sea. Here, though, it is the worshipers – rather than nature – which infuse it with a palpable spirituality. The Temple sits on an otherwise obscure side street
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Barbados’ Andromeda Gardens What happens when a traditional English garden is infused with a big dose of the tropics? The answer is Barbados’ Andromeda Botanic Gardens, and you don’t have to be a horticulturist to appreciate the beauty of this six acre tropical garden in St. Joseph Parish overlooking the
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com P.S. – The Argentine wine country For reasons unclear this remaining blog entry from my Argentina trip has remained parked in “draft” mode for over two years, but the experience is far too rich not to share, and it’s a fitting epilogue! A taste for Malbec honed during my visit to
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