Did Bangkok change or did we change??
Maybe no one changed. Maybe we just moved, the city and us, and we confuse being in another place with being in the same place being another
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Were they laughing or yawning?
The first time I lived outside of Spain, in Malta, upon returning a good friend asked me what have you learned? and I answered: “The secret is the people”. And every country I live in, every trip i make, I have it clearer.
Shiraz, the triumph of spring
Recognized for its open and university spirit, this city in southwestern Iran is full of flowers and poetry
From Tehran to Hormuz: From Tehran to Hormuz
It is essential to get rid of any cliché about the country of the ayatollahs and the women stuffed in black, also. Iran is a fascinating country, brimming with history and contrasts, that you have to walk without fear to enjoy all its charms
Guimaraes: journey into the bowels of Portugal
If you only have one day my advice is to start at the castle to continue to fall after the hill toward the palace of the Dukes of Braganza and the old town, leaving the end Mount Penha.
Scarlett Johanson and the Pyramids of Gizah
We are not here just to play the Indiana Jones, we also do foreigner things like everyone else. After all the holidays are over, we are tired and nostalgic and everything is the same to us. To the trip you have to give what is from the trip and to Instagram what is from Instagram...
Lima: route through the city of legends and cliffs
Route Lima and its monuments, restaurants, legends and unique corners.
Pasolini's Rome: the city that tourists don't go to
These are not human dwellings that line up on the mud, but pens for animals, kennels. Made from rotten planks, chipped walls, plates, waxed fabrics. As a door they often have just a dirty old curtain ....
Postcards in times of Covid (III)
How to name this end of the world, this helplessness of not being able to do anything as humanity collapses.
Postcards in times of Covid (II)
We are no longer lambs waiting for the sacrifice. We no longer wait for mercy to save us. Trust only in the meat, dwellers of the earth.
Postcards in times of Covid
In this survival we make trips through words. That's why we write. That's why we read. To try to sublimate all this that happens to us, that sometimes we are not even able to name.
On the death of Javier Reverte
Until his last day, has been faithful to his unwavering commitment to pursue his dreams. A hard-earned task that defines you more than any other
Venecia: the empty city and the strange carnival
In venice, the night of 5 June, the wails of the water were heard as we walked, barefoot, through the waterlogged plaza of high water in June, strange message from a city that doesn't hear. That day was the revival of a city that was created, in the 5th century, to flee from the conquests of the barbarians, and that was closed three months ago for fear of the virus and its shadows
Hong Kong: the routine of the convulsive days
The former colony a truce between given week in protests against China, that they have scared away tourism and have made the city a trail of painted protest, even in Spanish
Australia: the remains of the oldest culture in the world
The statue of Queen Victoria is untainted. In Mexico City, Columbus was always the red paint and a perennial sign of genocide. Here there is hardly anyone to throw paint indigenous sovereign venerated, while in Mexico live 11 million indigenous and 93% population is mestizo.
Adolescents in Mongolia
A Pagmaa does not like the city, family prefers steppe and help their parents with cattle, but she wants to work in a bank and see the world. He is aware that, according to tradition, must marry the 21 years
Rano Kau: Volcano bird men
The Rano Kau volcano is the most spectacular Easter. Most striking is its immense crater of a kilometer in diameter within which lies an amazing lagoon with floating islands
The four challenges of the Rapa Nui people
We arrived looking for sun and relaxation, but that was stronger than our desire to understand the intriguing past of this enigmatic island. And Anakena was where this story began with the arrival of the first thousand years ago Ariki
Qatar: the opaque realm that matter human
Taste is a rarity in the balloon, a country where the main population of the country is another country, India. One in four people living in Qatar is India. "They are the main population", We Faisal explained by an Indian who accompanies us in the car and nods.
London through the eyes of a child
The look of a child is not an adult, maleada and the digital information overload and drowning in topics. What catches their attention to the city?
The infinite sky Gobi
I do not know if the sky Gobi is bigger than others, but it is impossible to get tired looking. You do not feel small in the desert that almost killed Marco Polo, but part of that whole.
Return to the land of the angry and depressed
Those were times when he returned to Europe heard people complain about everything. Some told me that they could only play the lottery and I thought they did not know that the most important lottery had already touched: born in Europe.
Another umbilical cord around the globe
How can you not have fun in a country that Disney invented a children's film that deals with death? How not want to decipher a country with unpronounceable volcanoes are lovers? How not a surprise that pays street musicians to brighten their spicy foods because they like people mourn and laugh at the same time? How can we not admire a place that when you see her insides shaking more hands than rubble?
On a train climbing the Andes
He climbed a plateau between 3000 and 4000 meters. Can you believe it? As if the world could be turned upside down without falling anything. The train blew smoke and us life. From our window we watched the Andes and rain steppe grasses and leathery people by the cold sun.
