Melissa wrote: > > --- Fernando López Arbarello <uktkayak_at_uol.com.ar> wrote: > > > Today we celebrate the " Friend's Day " in Argentina, > > > > I don´t think it is a International Date but I´ll make it extensive > > to you, so thinking of you as my new PaddleWise Friends, I wish you > > all my very best wishes from here ! How do you term it in Argentine Spanish "Dia de La Amistad" or is it "Dia del los Companeros" One of the most famous tango songs which I am certain everyone has heard the tune for goes "Adios, muchachos, companeros de mi vida...." Farewell, boys, companions of my life... I always liked how the word _companeros_ sounds in that tango, a haunting lingering effect. Interestingly, in Castro's Cuba they picked that word _companero_ to designate comrade as in "Companero Ralph or Companera Melissa." > Thank you Fernando! Happy regards to you too! Please do tell us all > about the paddling there. I would someday like very much to paddle in > Argentina (and about a thousand other places all over this planet). My first visit to Buenos Aires was 41 years ago at about this time on a winter school break from Junior Year Abroad in Chile. Near the end of our stay we took the overnight ferry from Buenos Aires to Montevideo, Uruguay across the Rio de la Plata. Me and my companeros had a crowded cabin below that we shared. One of them was a fresh air fiend and went to open the port hole. I had to tackle him. He didn't notice that the waterline was just at the port hole and looked like the window on a washing machine with all the water sloshing around. :-) I often have thought of making that crossing, albeit I bet it would be quite a long one as the ferry took five or six hours to cross. There are shorter trips across the Rio de la Plata to Uruguay. Of course, there are nicer paddling places south in Argentina but I am an urban paddler. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jul 21 2000 - 12:24:11 PDT
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