When I was a boy I stared during hours the big Atlas that belonged to my grandfather, whom I never got to know. Planning trips and finding out places where to go, has always been an activity that I always enjoyed. Many times it was necessary to wait until my work or the economic situation allow it, but in all cases everything was almost planned.

There have been also unexpected situations, being the most traumatic when I was deported from Mauritius Island in 2008, because the English Embassy gave me a wrong information regarding my visa. That deportation was to South Africa, from where we “jumped” the Indian Ocean to Australia and we end up going around the world through the Southern Hemisphere. I have always marked on maps the routes I made and I always looked for alternative journeys when the trip was to destinations I had already gone to. Since 1975 I have travelled almost always with Beatriz (with the exception of the business trips). Since the year 2000, when she worked in Uruguay during the summer, I also made several short trips, to somewhat complicated places. Until their adolescence, our children travelled a lot with us, but at a certain moment the four of us realized that, that beautiful period of travelling together was reaching to its end.

We have never gone to a travel agency, nor hired tourist packages nor went to an “all inclusive” resort or went to a cruise ship.. We have always tried to travel in a comfortable way and without luxuries. In the records I have of each of the trips we have done, the economic situation of Argentina is reflected, with their terrible ups and downs. There are periods with no many trips and few travels abroad. This indicates that the Argentine currency worth very little and that the work was complicated. There were other years with many trips, when the exchange rate our currency was artificially high, what, by the other hand, damaged the economy of our Country. All the images in this site have no other pretension than to be “photos of the moment”, being the ones of the last years images done with the cell phone, always with an eye on the architecture of the place.

Several years ago, in one Uruguayan passport (with which I travelled during many years) it was necessary that the counter personnel complete “by hand” some data that appeared printed on the main page. After the names, date of birth, and so on., it was necessary to fill out: “civil status” and “profession” and the clerk completed it this way: CIVIL STATUS: Architect; PROFESSION: Married.
I thought that the guy was right, so I didn´t claim for the issuing of a new passport.

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This site was started to make a rewiew of the “Hakel Forest” in former East Germany, whose name coincides with our last familiar name. That´s why it was called “Hakel at Hakel”. Then I added some other places that we had visited and it became an interesting set. Trips to Petra, Jaipur, Easter Island, Perth (WA), Faroe Islands, Kauai and several more remain to be completed in a near future.

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If anyone would like to contact me, my email is: 123gbh@gmail.com