Argentina - Patagonia - Glacier Perito Moreno

The Perito Moreno Glacier is one of the only 3 glaciers in the world that is growing. It accumulates more snow that it melts, so every year comes forward a bit more and eventually touches land. Because it is so close to land it is easy to see and visit. We can take a boat and get to the wall. We see pieces of ice falling down - the ice bergs - and we navigate among them. It is just so beautiful!

Argentina - Patagonia! The most amazing place in the world!

Glaciar Upsala and the Andes

 The Glaciers are formed as a result of the snow that accumulates in the top of the Andes and gets compressed by the weight of that snow. At the bottom ice is formed, and that is the glacier. Glaciers grow and at the same time retract as they unfreeze with the heat. The Upsala Glacier is melting faster than it accumulates, so it is retracting, and forming a lake of bright blue water that is still trapped in the middle of the mountains! In a couple of years the glacier will retract so much that the lake will join with another bigger lake (the Argentina lake). Meanwhile, while that small lake is trapped, you need to climb the mountains to see it, and it is the most amazing view that I have ever seen!

Buenos Aires, Argentina - a city full of contrasts!

I was simply amazed with Buenos Aires! A city full of contrasts, with old beautiful buildings arising in the middle of new sky scrapers, contrasting its worked stones with the cold mirror glasses that reproduce the blue sky.

The contrasts are also seen in the old neighborhoods, with graffiti covering the most ancient buildings.

Baker Library in the fall, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, USA

Another view of the Ansonia Building in NYC

Baker Library - Harvard Business School

Baker Library - this is the main Library at Harvard Business School, an incredible source of great knowledge in this amazing campus.

In front of it lays a long yard, with a green lawn where rabbits and squirrels play during Spring, and that is covered in white in the snowy Winter.

Peet's Coffee & Tea - Harvard Square

This is Peet's Cafe, in Harvard Square, Cambridge MA, a local coffee shop with a homey feeling, serving premium quality coffee and tea, and with those cookies that make us feel so comfortable in the snowy days.
With large windows with chairs looking to the outside, this coffee house invites us to stay for a morning or an afternoon, an hour or just some minutes, and enjoy its good ambiance.

Dean's House - Harvard Business School

Carmel, CA

The Spanish Mission in Carmel is another place that surprises each and every vistor. It keeps the history of the old times, when the first spanish people arrived to the West Coast, to explore this amazing part of the world.

It can still be seen the old building that was the church and the houses surrounding them. A very colonial spot!

San Francisco, CA

It is true! It is a beautiful city!! San Francisco is definitely worth a visit! Several actually! The bay is in fact very special, and even for me, a portuguese from Lisbon, grown near a bridge such as the Golden Gate, San Francisco impressed me for the light (so similar to Lisbon's!), and for the bay, so wide and clear, that the water seems to never end on the other side of the ocean :)