Beglrade fruits

What great colours! And shapes. I could not help taking photos of these boxes of fruit outside some corner stores in Belgrade. Perfect weather too.

Earthquake Albania style

I have always wanted to experience an earthquake (a little one), and last night I got my wish, as the following report shows. As happened when I got my wish to see what a car accident was like up close, it was a little unsettling. It was a bit hard to fall into a deep sleep knowing that the 6 floors above could easily come down on me.

A strong earthquake, 6.0 on the Richter scale and 5.4 on the Richter scale, according to separate media reports, struck Albania and Macedonia at 11.49pm local time, 0.49am on September 7 Bulgarian time, Focus news agency has reported.

Seismologist reports have pinpointed the tremor's epicentre near the town of Bulqize, Albania, close to the Macedonian border.

The earthquake, which was followed by as many as 58 aftershocks, was felt in Tirana, as well as Macedonia, but it was not felt in Greece.

Walking the dog BA style

The people in Buenos Aires love dogs. It seems that everyone has one. And almost everyone lives in a small apartment. So dog walking is a big deal, and also an employment opportunity. The dogs seem to like it a lot.

Architecture in the Argentine

I was expecting great 19th century architecture in Buenos Aires, and there is plenty. But I was not expecting the great Modernist buildings - of which there are even more. Here are two that I particularly liked, although the photos from my phone-camera do not do them justice.

World Bank to the rescue (again!)

Victoria from the Bank office in Washington DC came down to Buenos Aires for a few days to see what all the excitement is about. Ever the humanitarian, she can be seen here advising the locals on how to blow their noses (nicely) in front of one of the many government-sponsored bird flu sign around the city - la Gripe A (H1N1) as it is affectionately known here. As these shots demonstrate, even on holiday, Victoria just cannot help helping - a pin up girl for the Bank.

On the (redeveloped) waterfront

Continuing with my new look of the tough guy Argentinean fisherman/peasant/labourer, I was down on the redeveloped waterfront here in Buenos Aires. They have a very nice new pedestrian bridge, which you can see from both angles in these shots.

An Argentinean necropolis

I am not in Europe, or an open air architecture museum, but rather the main cemetary of Buenos Aires. As you can see, they do a nice resting place here - big ones, little ones and even one that looks like the Tardis. The tourists love it. Eva Peron's grave is somewhere here but I missed it amongst all the over the top-ness.