Rodolfo Romero and his trip through the "faces of Africa"
A sample of photos made with hands and feet
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A meeting in Madrid and for travelers
The IATI Conference of the great trips returns to Madrid on days 1 and 2 April, to the auditorium of the IES Beatriz Galindo. As in the four previous editions in this city, will bring the attendees the experience of globetrotters who have made sensational trips, of several months or years by bicycle, Motorcycle, and auto stop, by public transport, solo, a couple, with his kids…
Salacot stories and FORTASEC
Enrique Vaquerizo is masterfully describing us the folly of wandering hove for a continent already desnortado and, at the same time, convinces us to follow him on his way
Diego Cobo wins the Beca Michael Jacobs of chronic viajera
Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Latin American Journalism (FNPI) y el Hay Festival han galardonado al colaborador de VaP por su proyecto "Huellas negras", which delves into the embers of slavery in Jamaica, Gambia and southern United States
Presentation of “Land of witches” in Madrid
The next Friday 10 June, to 20:00 hours, María Ferreira presenta en Madrid su libro "Tierra de Brujas", edited by Traveling Past. The appointment is in the library of Tierra Fuego (Conde Duque crossing, 3).
Travel the globe without leaving Madrid
People, examples, narrating incredible routes, talking to us, disengaging laughter and tears, chairs and sinks, sunsets and meals in cans, impossible landscapes and party nights where one does not understand anything ... They are not heroes, or special beings, son sólo esa tribu fascinante que se llama "viajeros". People wanting to kick the Earth will be in Madrid 28 and 29 May, in a conference purporting to be a great trip just shared. Nothing else... a great trip.
African Macondo presentation in Madrid and Barcelona
[st] A book needs to be blessed, digest and be provided. For those who want to attend such a significant event, the…
Dante: the book which lasted thirteen years
Dante was not a birth, were one hundred. My first novel thirteen years hard in and out in a drawer or opening and closing of a computer that many times was nothing more than an old forgotten file. Dante times are explained in the illustrative example that the first draft is crafted, with pen and cuartillas, then I still had confidence in understanding what was able to draw with fingers.
Spanish Geographical Society awards the Guadarramismo
The Spanish Geographical Society has awarded the Heritage Award, which recognizes Geographic outstanding contributions of groups and movements to geography, travel and exploration for knowledge of the planet- the Guadarramismo as a lifestyle and humanistic view of the mountains.
Diary of a Wanderer
Coinciding with the broadcast of the documentary on TVE, Miquel Silvestre presents the book of his particular adventure of a hundred days, ten countries and more than 20.000 kilometers on two wheels. A trip through the Andean mountain range, Aconcagua, the Perito Moreno glacier, the estuary of the Río de la Plata, Atacama desert, or the Amazon, until you reach the Bay of Chame and finish your trip before the immensity of the Pacific Ocean
Around the world in eighty books
The Geographer, viajero y escritor Eduardo Martínez de Pisón dará mañana una conferencia sobre "El Planeta Verne" con motivo de la publicación de "La Tierra de Jules Verne", written by Martínez de Pisón, and reissues of two Verne classics: "César Cascabel" y "Claudius Bombarnac, corresponsal de El Siglo XX", from Editorial Fórcola.
Introducing Sentiment Mountain
Eduardo Martínez de Pisón and Sebastián Álvaro, two references of mountaineering in our country, presented today at the Desnivel bookstore in Madrid (Matute Square, 6) to 19:30 hours the extended edition of The feeling of the mountain, an essential work to know the two centuries of history of man in the mountains.
Diego Cobo talk about his trip to Alaska
Diego Cobo, Contributor VaP., will count next thursday 18, in the library Slope, your alaska biking experience.
The Viajesalpasado book jumps to the media
The news of the launch of the first book in the Viajesalpasado collection, "El mundo de equipaje", had a hole yesterday in numerous web pages. From television portals such as Tele 5, National newspapers such as La Razón or economic newspapers such as El Economista picked up the edition of this travel book that has the peculiarity of telling the world through 27 voices.
Martinez de Pisón, at the Book Fair
[st] The geographer and mountaineer Eduardo Martinez de Pison, Contributor VaP., will be on friday 6 June,…
Presentation of The world of luggage
Yesterday, in the number 3 of the Conde Duque Crossing, Madrid, we met a few VaP friends (if the chronicler were not an interested party, he would even dare to point out that the room was full) clothing long for our book.
El mundo de equipaje, and bookstores
[st] and the Hay Festival have awarded the VaP collaborator for his project "Black Footprints", the first book of the publishing collection Travel to the Past, It is already in…
El mundo de equipaje
"El mundo de equipaje", the first book of the new editorial collection Viajes al Past, you can already buy it on our website. stories 27 travelers who have written in VaP in these more than four years of existence. Do not miss it!
Meeting of great travelers
The II Hostelworld Conference on Great Trips brings together eleven travelers in Madrid who tell stories (14, 21 and 28 May, the next appointments) your adventures of several months or years around the world on a motorcycle, bicycle, hitchhiking, car, as a family… or alone.
Literature and travel workshop with Reverte
What does traveling mean? Why we travel? How does a writer travel? What are our favorite geographies?... The writer Javier Reverte will talk about all these topics in Mongofre (Menorca) of 10 the 13 next april. Do you wanna hear him?
April Ruta 2014: camping by the water, savannah and desert
What we propose at Easter, worth 1160 EUR (airline tickets not included) It is a route out of Victoria Falls and cross the most beautiful and emblematic parks in Botswana. Close, touching, the most spectacular nature of South Africa. Maximum group 10 People.
A thousand stories in VaP: a long journey around the planet
Rules of use: we recommend reading this text first and then pay attention to the photos. Then they will understand that the world is more alike than they think, that we are closer than we think and that this is only discovered by going very far.
Did: looking color
I have a friend artist, always in search of color and textures. I listen carefully when I explained their progress, but where are the colors? I already know my intention imaginareis, my intention. Anyone who knows anything about Fez you will come some places known image of tanners.
Basic tips for the first cruise trip
If someone spends his vacations at sea for the first time, he has to get used to one or another incidence. The vast ocean and its houseboats have too many peculiarities that perhaps you have never considered. Here are some basic tips from an experienced cruise company to enjoy your water baptism.
