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Namibia, ten images

Sometimes it is better to let the images speak. After nearly five years of life and travels in Africa, a photographic summary of the country to another harsh reality, the progress and the immense beauty of this continent. My eyes and my camera sits today in beautiful Namibia.

byJavier Brandoli

11 Oct., 2024

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

byvap

31 August, 2022

A Place in the World

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.

byJavier Brandoli

26 July, 2022

Shiraz, the triumph of spring

Recognized for its open and university spirit, this city in southwestern Iran is full of flowers and poetry

byRicardo Coarasa

21 April, 2022

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

byRicardo Coarasa

26 March, 2022

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.

byRicardo Coarasa

16 February, 2022

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...

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

30 December, 2021

Lima: route through the city of legends and cliffs

Route Lima and its monuments, restaurants, legends and unique corners.

byJavier Brandoli

6 August, 2021

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 ....

byJavier Brandoli

22 February, 2021

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.

byMaria Ferreira

12 February, 2021

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.

byMaria Ferreira

23 January, 2021

Desde un hospital de Kenia

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.

byMaria Ferreira

10 January, 2021

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

byRicardo Coarasa

7 November, 2020

A Place in the World

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

byJavier Brandoli

12 June, 2020

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

byRicardo Coarasa

13 September, 2019

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.

byJavier Brandoli

9 May, 2019

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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

byMaría Traspaderne

22 April, 2019

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

byGerardo Bartolomé

5 April, 2019

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

byGerardo Bartolomé

1 April, 2019

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.

byJavier Brandoli

25 March, 2019

In a strange land

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?

byRicardo Coarasa

30 January, 2019

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Asia

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.

byMaría Traspaderne

28 January, 2019

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.

byJavier Brandoli

23 January, 2019

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?

byJavier Brandoli

17 January, 2019