A Collection of Writings
Down Argentina Way - Part One
In the Travel Brochure it said 'No y montanas en Uruguay' but with the promise of six films and a TV series on the table I wasn't about to argue.
Down Argentina Way - Part Two
Presidenta Isabelita insists I sit and meditate beside the mummified body of Evita and a few days later she is ousted from office. We are advised to get out of the country and hightail it for Uruguay.
Down Argentina Way - Part Three
Hiding out in Montevideo, money problems, film industry in the hands of an Admiral and the backer drops out. Time to come home.
On the Dracula Trail
Ingrid spends a night in the Borgo Pass and pays Vlad the Impaler a home visit in the house in which he was born in Sighisoara.
Persian Nights
The question remains - should I have taken the sapphires? Or just be satisfied with the award?
Under the Southern Cross
Manuel de Anchorena used to be Argentine Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Back home his influence was much more all-encompassing.
Paris in the Springtime
The Homage was ego inflating but the deluge looked like shrinking it and the flowing wine didn't do the old green jacket any favours.