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Q&A Part 2: Travel journalist Vicky Baker

Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Laura Byrne Paquet

Buenos Aires buildings

Buenos Aires. Last Friday, I ran part 1 of my e-mail interview with British travel journalist Vicky Baker, who now lives in Buenos Aires. The interview took place back in the fall; it’s only due to my disorganization that it hasn’t appeared here before now! Here’s part 2 of our virtual chat. I was fascinated […]

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Q&A Part 1: Travel journalist Vicky Baker

Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by Laura Byrne Paquet

As promised, here is Part 1 of my e-mail interview with Vicky Baker, a Buenos Aires-based freelancer who blogs at Going local travel (a blog inspired by the “Going Local” series she wrote for The Guardian). Note that Vicky answered these questions way back in October 2009; the delay in posting them is all mine, […]

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Confessions of a disorganized blogger

Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Laura Byrne Paquet

OK, so it’s a new year, and it’s time for a wee confession: I have been a terribly disorganized and erratic blogger lately. Well, that’s probably not much of a confession to anyone who has been following this blog for any length of time; my posts haven’t been very frequent over the last few months. […]

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