Here is the office of Puerto de Palos in Buenos Aires. I love it for its turrets, for its scruffiness and for its anonymity. The problem is that the wiring is pre-historic, the offices are tiney and not very well ventilated and some of the corridors and staircases are, to put it gently, a little unsound by modern standards. The guys outside might be issuing the certificate of safe business premises. They might equally be from the local branch of the protection of businesses society. Or even the management eyeing up a potential real estate opportunity.

As this is the first of the month I share with you the blog statistics for the previous month. In April we had a disappointing 68227 visits. This is down from March's record 81424 bringing the total visits to 689184. Any ideas for boosting traffic (apart from the obvious ones) gratefully received.

I'm returning to London this morning, just another seventeen hours travelling. Thank goodness for books.