Northern Cape, where it ends Europe

For: Daniel Landa

The armillary sphere appeared in the distance, on top of a cliff, Stoic, announcing the end of the trip, and in an epilogue. "Here ends the continent, come home ", seems that the world's most melancholy out. Only hay tourists, only dreamers and bikers, that this is a destination to feel fearless, although one is in Norway with its perfect road.

The dial marking the latitude of 71 ° 10′ 16»N is the ancient representation of the movement of the stars around the Earth and precisely there, the traveler who rests the miles of road can see the midnight sun does not want to hide in the horizon. In the northernmost point of Europe the sky goes crazy: borelaes auroras dance in autumn and summer day refuses to give way to the night. The place is rare and has built a center to house unclassifiable traveler. There an empty theater and a museum that tells the story of a Thai king who arrived in a strange perchance latitude. There is a chapel for devotees to thank the open end of a route cold, that permeates the bones. This place is the most northerly post office around the globe, A restaurant and a small shop selling souvenir stuffed polar bears and keychains North Cape to brag back south. And all that-theater, museum, Chapel, restaurants, Post Office and Store- was completely empty. That is the natural state of North Cape, loneliness.

In the northernmost point of Europe the sky goes crazy: borelaes auroras dance in autumn and summer day refuses to give way to the night.

Except at midsummer, where young people applaud the non-sunset, the rest of the year belongs, as would the president Zapatero- wind. The wind blows with the same anger as it does in the Beagle Channel, south of Ushuaia. More to blow, moans, in a lament that no one hears from so far that has been blowing. The sea was gray and sad goodbye sky before nightfall.

We picked up the recording equipment and we turned around to look could not resist one last time to remote solitude, the metal sphere that accentuated her helplessness as we walked away and I could almost hear the words in the distance: "That, go back south and leave me alone ".

 

 

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