Author Archives: myuytips

Cookbooks – Part 1

Without question I AM A COLLECTOR and friend of interesting things, I love history and I am a fan of good cuisine, according to the motto: „Life is to short for bad food or wine“! During the last 60 years … Weiterlesen →

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Vegetable Ivory

     Finest Tagua Nut art. For many years we lived in Panama, there we came of course across the indigenous local artists. Just visiting one of the many souvenir markets or events could bring you in personal contact with … Weiterlesen →

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Collecting – Luggage Labels Uruguay 2

Hotel El Mirador, Colonia. Jose Sande, current Director of Hotel El Mirador, was born into a very humble family in La Piedra, a tiny village in Galicia, Spain. He was called Pepe. „Pepe“ was never an ordinary child, and his … Weiterlesen →

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Trumps Corona-Farce

U.S. Death Toll Reaches 50.000. How many of these 50.000 – there are many more to come – are going on to this morons account ? Update 2 days later:  Over 1.000.000 infected and over 55.000 DEAD ! Update 6 … Weiterlesen →

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Collecting – Luggage Labels Uruguay 1

LUGGAGE LABELS HAVE AN INTRICATE LANGUAGE. I wish they could also speak, as the story’s they could tell would be of far greater essence than what we see through them or what we can learn from researching hotel history. Some … Weiterlesen →

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Germany – Worth a Visit

Sitting at home during the Easter weekend because of the Corona Virus Quarantine, just like you, I thought why can’t we take the time to travel together through my beautiful home country Germany. Just a few explanations and some nice … Weiterlesen →

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Corona Virus – Street Art

At the moment, the world has turned to Corona. Everybody knows „The Virus“. Covid-19 stands for COrona-VIrus Disease, 2019. I don’t want to write about the Corona Virus, many many other, much more predestined, people have done this already.   … Weiterlesen →

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Corona – Uruguay is Different

With these „German Air Force Plane Hospitals“, Italian seriously ill corona infected people are flown to Germany. So positive such mutual help in hardest times. Friday, 13th of March 2020. The date will be marked in the memory of all … Weiterlesen →

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Fake The Wine Connoisseur

My last article about the wine connoisseur has brought a lot of comments. Thanks for that. Anyway, I want to stick to the content, but I have to admit that some people’s knowledge of wine, or what they think they … Weiterlesen →

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Wine Connoisseur

„But where there is no wine, the charm of life dies“.  Anyone who can agree with this quotation from the Greek tragedian poet Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) is well on the way to become a wine connoisseur. Bust … Weiterlesen →

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