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Djurgarden: the green heart of Stockholm

I did not feel part of Stockholm until I got on a bike and toured the island of Djurgarden, the green lung of the city, embedded in a natural park full Swedish capital. Stockholm is difficult to understand without getting on a bike.

byRicardo Coarasa

17 January, 2013

Alaska: to around motorcycle history

It is a moment that can be worth a life, that justifies all the efforts and sufferings. I realize that this is the best ending I could have my trip, I'd rather have them come to conclude the REO as a hermit. Here and now are the true explorers who have come to seek.

byMiquel Silvestre

16 January, 2013

The life of a nun in Africa: the courage of Carmen

“Renamo, Renamo, Where is the blood of your brother Frelimo?”, told, or vice versa, paraphrasing the story of Cain and Abel. Everyone looked, silent, and some began to mourn. Wastes were. Who is without sin, Who did not kill, cast the first stone? Returned to sink in, to llorar ", recalls.

byJavier Brandoli

15 January, 2013

Singapore: City people happy

Few places in the world where cleanliness is a must. Known as the city that never sleeps, Switzerland of Asia, Singapore is the center of an explosion of colored lights.

byMayte Touch

12 January, 2013

Getting to Africa: Niger

er the hippos that are in the Niger River on the outskirts of the city? Ugh complicated, gasoline has hiked, I can not get a picture 100 EUR! On the brink of insanity, faltered, I beg leave cockroaches company not too greedy and wishing me a good firing stroke.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

11 January, 2013

In a strange land

The big trip

Alargad right hand. You can still play your dreams with the fingertips. They have not moved from there, but now I watch scary.

byRicardo Coarasa

10 January, 2013

Plaza de Mayo: Do not cry for me Argentina

I stood in the center of the square, interested in how the place had changed little over those 400 years. I smiled when I remembered the newsprint happened José Moreno Carbonero, the painter's famous painting.

byGerardo Bartolomé

9 January, 2013

Routes in Africa 2013: map, drive and adventure

Johannesburg, across all Mozambique, to Malawi; Vilanculos to Cape Town through Zimbabwe, Botswana and Nambia; Angola to the mouth of the Zambezi in Mozambique; Joburg to Kruger Vialnculos and crossing the Limpopo ... A whole menu ahead in travel 2013. !What advantage!

byJavier Brandoli

8 January, 2013

The blue skin of Libya

South, far south, reach Ghat. His lavish oasis city houses a crouching on the threshold of the desert magnanimous. Its labyrinthine medina retains the flavor of ancient times, when it was an important stage of the trans-Saharan caravan routes crossing the desert.

byVincent Marian Plédel and Ocaña

5 January, 2013

Alaska: encounter with a bear

It can be wild beasts, Paramilitary the terrible storms truenos the arena, But not me who shoots. I'm not there. I have actually disappeared from the scene and is like nothing could touch me except the thrill of meeting just two days' journey from Valdez after a year on the road.

byMiquel Silvestre

4 January, 2013

Christmas in a hotel in Mozambique

I've never experienced this side of the trench. Rarely was the doer, waving the corks for others. Today, things coincidences, also work in a hotel, Villas do Indico, where madness becomes routine.

byJavier Brandoli

2 January, 2013

Year goodbye at the top of Peñalara: Happy 2013!

It is a tradition for many mountaineers, VaP. did not want to miss the appointment today and has done so with two companions of emergency: Sebastián Álvaro, creator of "The Edge of the Impossible", and Mariano Izquierdo, camera operator's legendary adventure.

byRicardo Coarasa

31 December, 2012

Hammamet: the amazing Medina of doors

Is a city marrow convoluted, tentacles that trap the traveler and immerse you in walking stopped clock, of timeless souks, a certain anxiety when you think instead of running away than you think.

byRicardo Coarasa

28 December, 2012

Poorva Express: the Varanasi a Delhi a trend

Once in the carriage, printed in the sweat shirt, beep, a. The station.

byContributors

27 December, 2012

The funeral of Mrs. Enora

[st] Under a chestnut had dozens of men sitting on the floor. They all gathered under the protection…

byJavier Brandoli

26 December, 2012

In a strange land

If tomorrow the world ends

The apocalypse predicted by the Maya is a chore. There are many trips that still to do and too many places you would like to return. You really do not have time to bring a smile to our shoes?

byRicardo Coarasa

20 December, 2012

The Dark Side of the Moon

Travel by dhow to Zanzibar: the full moon…

I give up my life for a vague dream awakened in pages read in volumes of youthful adventures, travel books, Navigation trials. And now just wait for the moon and tides make it possible to lift the hulls of 10 meters of Jahazi, beached on the sand of Africa, without rigging or covered, as abandoned tortoise shells.

byJuan Ramon Morales

19 December, 2012

The greed and dreams

This conversation, cases literal, I had it yesterday with Acasio, a co-worker who was taking some pictures for the new hotel website. Married, has two daughters. Not enough money. Walk three hours every day to come to work. The whole conversation started because we talked about dreams.

byJavier Brandoli

18 December, 2012

Canal Imperial de Aragón: the locura de Pignatelli

I do not know what led me to that Sunday morning stroll along the banks of the Canal Imperial de Aragón. Despite having lived in Zaragoza and visit the city frequently, I had never done before. Perhaps it was the memory of my father ...

byRicardo Coarasa

14 December, 2012

40 years: water in the sink

The distance is in my mind time and time has taught me that I'm confused with my own distances. Now that today I am 40 years, that figure terrifying pushing some to bungee jumping in the sink, I am more than ever strokes on the map. More vitally ordered and disordered than ever, that in all my virtues hide my main defects.

byJavier Brandoli

11 December, 2012

Uribelarrea: Anatomy of the pampas

It is close to Buenos Aires, has nice restaurants and lots of history to see and feel, ideal for a getaway. It is a place that reflects very well what happened in the pampas of Argentina.

byGerardo Bartolomé

8 December, 2012

Cairns: Australian diving Nirvana

Diving is flying below ground. Move effortlessly and in slow motion in a world completely unknown, where you are a guest in a world of goldfish, sand walls, water winds.

byMayte Touch

6 December, 2012

The landscapes of the Generation of 98

The rereading of 98 Ortega and enthusiasm brings us back to the landscapes in the proper measure of its necessary support and melancholy intelligence. A look back might be, in this sense, a necessary look at the future.

byEduardo Martinez de Pison

5 December, 2012

Lebolo: The "purchase" of a woman

"I bought a kid, a suit with shoes and tie for Father, a suit with sneakers for mother, one case of soda, a case of beer, five liters of wine, two liters of Nipa (local firewater), 5 Rolling snuff packages, 500 MZN (15 EUR) and six transport guests (70 meticais per person)”

byJavier Brandoli

4 December, 2012

"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
Strengthen the foundation: Africa raises its voice	8,15/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10

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