This notice was placed in the kitchen of the Hostel Carlos Gardel today by Juliette and Michelle, two young ladies from France.
They arrived in Buenos Aires the day before this notice was placed, the beginning of a two month journey.
Full of the spirit of adventure they set off to see La Boca. La Boca is notorious. All advice to travellers is to remain in one small area called, Caminito and should you wander from there the police usurer the unwary back to the Caminito.
I have been there several times and nothing untoward has happened. In fact if people I meet are reluctant to go there I offer an escort. I have become complacent and I was of the opinion that La Boca’s reputation was unwarranted.
Juilette and Michelle were stopped by three men and had their backpacks physically removed and then stolen but did not suffer any injuries. Their backpacks contained their passports, credit cards, cameras and guidebooks. All the eggs were in one basket. No assistance was offered by passers by.
At the same time this was happening I was in The Walrus Bookstore. I happened upon a copy of Aristotle’s Ethics. The last time I held a copy of this work was 14 years ago. I was in the ski village of Spindleruv Myln and had been told by Stepunka of her interest in Philosophy. Although I cherished the book, it was littered with my comments and passages of note, I didn’t hesitate in offering it to her.
Libor and Stepunka, were a couple that I met on the bus to the ski fields. They accommodated me on the mountain, entertained me, taught me how to snowboard on equipment from their shop and when it was time for me to leave, handed me a set of keys to their apartment in Prague where I stayed for a month.
It sounds fanciful but their generosity was extraordinary. The impression stays with me now and will for a long time to come.
In Aristotle’s words, ‘…the characteristic aim of studying ethics is not the acquisition of knowledge about action but action itself - we read Ethics, not in order to know what good men are like, but in order to act as good men do.’
In the pursuit of happiness Aristotle says, ‘By common consent the beginning is almost half the whole task.’ An eastern proverb may put it as, ‘every journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.’
Travel has its pitfalls and rewards. I have found this book again or it has found me but not by chance.
‘That the most important and finest thing of all [happiness] should be left to chance would be a gross disharmony.’ Aristotle.
They arrived in Buenos Aires the day before this notice was placed, the beginning of a two month journey.
Full of the spirit of adventure they set off to see La Boca. La Boca is notorious. All advice to travellers is to remain in one small area called, Caminito and should you wander from there the police usurer the unwary back to the Caminito.
I have been there several times and nothing untoward has happened. In fact if people I meet are reluctant to go there I offer an escort. I have become complacent and I was of the opinion that La Boca’s reputation was unwarranted.
Juilette and Michelle were stopped by three men and had their backpacks physically removed and then stolen but did not suffer any injuries. Their backpacks contained their passports, credit cards, cameras and guidebooks. All the eggs were in one basket. No assistance was offered by passers by.
At the same time this was happening I was in The Walrus Bookstore. I happened upon a copy of Aristotle’s Ethics. The last time I held a copy of this work was 14 years ago. I was in the ski village of Spindleruv Myln and had been told by Stepunka of her interest in Philosophy. Although I cherished the book, it was littered with my comments and passages of note, I didn’t hesitate in offering it to her.
Libor and Stepunka, were a couple that I met on the bus to the ski fields. They accommodated me on the mountain, entertained me, taught me how to snowboard on equipment from their shop and when it was time for me to leave, handed me a set of keys to their apartment in Prague where I stayed for a month.
It sounds fanciful but their generosity was extraordinary. The impression stays with me now and will for a long time to come.
In Aristotle’s words, ‘…the characteristic aim of studying ethics is not the acquisition of knowledge about action but action itself - we read Ethics, not in order to know what good men are like, but in order to act as good men do.’
In the pursuit of happiness Aristotle says, ‘By common consent the beginning is almost half the whole task.’ An eastern proverb may put it as, ‘every journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.’
Travel has its pitfalls and rewards. I have found this book again or it has found me but not by chance.
‘That the most important and finest thing of all [happiness] should be left to chance would be a gross disharmony.’ Aristotle.
I saw that note too! U did a good thing. Unfortunatly i couldn´t offer anything, but I hope they could have a good time then.
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