BIG EYE BEING THE TERM coined by scientists to describe the state of sleeplessness experienced in 24 hours of Antarctic summer daylight (or in the perpetual dark of its winter).
The summer is waning, and we´re in Buenos Aires, but the term is too apt to throw out on a technicality.
To combat Big Eye our group has self-prescribed a double-dose of tango to spice up an evening meal in a metropolis of one-way streets and steaming subway vents. The traditional tango - a leggy lovesong of a dance - seems to me, tonight, a natural reaction to the heat of the Argentinian capital.
The sheer span of the Rio Plato (the Silver River) maintains a high humidity in the churn of its not-so-silver waters and we, the jetlagged, join the pious in the cool of a Catholic cathedral.
In Buenos Aires we are one tango from Ushuaia and the ship to take us to Antarctica...
The summer is waning, and we´re in Buenos Aires, but the term is too apt to throw out on a technicality.
To combat Big Eye our group has self-prescribed a double-dose of tango to spice up an evening meal in a metropolis of one-way streets and steaming subway vents. The traditional tango - a leggy lovesong of a dance - seems to me, tonight, a natural reaction to the heat of the Argentinian capital.
The sheer span of the Rio Plato (the Silver River) maintains a high humidity in the churn of its not-so-silver waters and we, the jetlagged, join the pious in the cool of a Catholic cathedral.
In Buenos Aires we are one tango from Ushuaia and the ship to take us to Antarctica...
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