Posts Tagged 'ricardo coarasa’

Bruges is a city used to looking in the mirror. Otherwise it is unthinkable that it has been able to preserve intact that medieval beauty that made it one of the nerve centers of commerce in old Europe..

Adorning facades of historic buildings, chiselled spectacular fireplaces, rooted in popular celebrations, admirable and portrayed in stained glass, even, brands of beer. Belgium has not forgotten Carlos V.

An idyllic car-free island in the Marmara Sea that, throughout history, it has been the refuge of princes who have come to fewer and millionaires with no more homeland than money. Prohibited to use any motorized means. Can only be traveled by carriage, bicycle or on foot. It sounded so good you had to get close.

"Excursion to Collarada". Thus had my father headed, in 1944, a sheet that now seemed unable to resist a puff: that of his ascent to Collarada from Villanúa, one of the highest slopes in the Pyrenees. I had been around my head for a long time to try to emulate him. Seventy one years later, the time had come.