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The carrerita Medellin

Virgin is directed towards the image of Jesus in a hurry, with the exultation of one who is reunited with her son three days after his death. Es la popular "Carrerita" Medellin, a tradition that will be repeated next Sunday in the village that gave birth to Hernán Cortés.

byRicardo Coarasa

21 March, 2016

The mills: the weight of the stars

I do not know how much they weigh the stars, but tonight I thought we were falling all over. It could not be that heaven soportase together without falling apart so violently upon us. Anytime, there was no doubt, They start to rush.

byRicardo Coarasa

17 March, 2016

Monarch butterflies

In a creek, surrounded by pine forests and milkweed, descending a path of dirt and rock. First are shadows, invisible flaps, motion without sound. Then they appear in a group, some, stirring the air. Finally, Where the heat and food abound they appear by the thousands, by tens of thousands to millions. Monarch butterflies, in Sierra Chincua, Michoacán, Mexico. Nature without fences or borders. From Canada to Mexico, alien to the rules of man.

byJavier Brandoli

2 March, 2016

Pacific Time

Montevideo. The blues of the bus

The first time I got on a bus in Montevideo, my heart went back twenty years, thirty, forty, sonaba “In the army now”, it sounded with all its load of surrender, defections, impeccably harmonized litanies and chords.

byLaura Berdejo

25 February, 2016

Ghent: forbidden to flee before nightfall

Ghent's main merit, that the traveler perceives as soon as he accumulates a few hours of walking on his feet, is to have overcome the temptation to become absorbed in its rich medieval past, languishing petrified in the meanders of its history.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 February, 2016

The old book "cemeteries" of Mexico City

When the teenage uncle Nicolas, almost 90 years, started buying used books by Tepito, one of the most marginal neighborhoods in Mexico City, and his mother asked him one morning what he planned to do with so much paper accumulated between the narrow walls of his house, did not imagine that almost 100 años después su familia acumularía millones de obras de segunda mano en "cementerios" alive where manuscripts wait for decades, spilled on the floor or accumulated on huge shelves, someone give them life

byJavier Brandoli

11 February, 2016

Lier: the secret of Flanders

Anyone who comes here to walk its cobbled streets soon receive sensitivity of a municipality that has the heroes not politicians or generals, but to a watchmaker, poet, a painter and a blacksmith.

byRicardo Coarasa

5 February, 2016

Navigating the Bosphorus: Istanbul at the gates of Black Sea

Trace the Bosphorus to the Black Sea is browse history. De Eminönü, next to the Galata Bridge and close to the unmistakable New Mosque, departs daily ferry that makes the crossing to Anadolu Kavagi.

byRicardo Coarasa

29 January, 2016

The letter

From Melissa to Dad- Hi father, I love you, I miss you. I would like you to join me to spend Christmas together. You are the pope #1. I love you. I really want to see you, I send you many greetings and hugs. Dios y María te bendigan".

byJavier Brandoli

27 January, 2016

Voces de Somalia: ablation

At 14 years they married and had to stop studying. At 16, She gave birth to a girl in a hospital in Nairobi. She wept inconsolably for days. 'I wanted to have a child- repeated tearfully. "My daughter will suffer so much! Sorry, sorry, sorry…", she told her baby.

byMaria Ferreira

25 January, 2016

Bruges: the medieval fascination of flamenco Venice

Bruges is a city used to looking in the mirror. Otherwise it is unthinkable that it has been able to preserve intact that medieval beauty that made it one of the nerve centers of commerce in old Europe..

byRicardo Coarasa

22 January, 2016

The Paraguayan Chaco, Mennonites and Ayoreos

"Plus, many more, although most are sick. The shamans forbade them to eat deer meat and now they only eat honey, also from some anteater, they are slow and easy to catch, "he says, while smilingly rubbing his belly.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

19 January, 2016

Flanders to Brussels: the route of Emperor Charles

Adorning facades of historic buildings, chiselled spectacular fireplaces, rooted in popular celebrations, admirable and portrayed in stained glass, even, brands of beer. Belgium has not forgotten Carlos V.

byRicardo Coarasa

15 January, 2016

David's journey. Mid-afternoon coffee

"Hoy se murió David Bowie y luego entré en este café lleno de sol y vacío de gente y a unos decibelios exactamente propicios para mi alma ronroneante en la mesa de la ventana, right in front of the sun, and on the other side the sea, sonó The man who sold the world".

byLaura Berdejo

11 January, 2016

Querétaro: History Buff

"Supongo que la mayor y más peligrosa locura es la de sonreír a los demás sin ninguna razón para hacerlo, cuando lo que se espera de ti es un llanto", I thought when I heard in that beautiful porticoed square a man howl and laugh as if there was no sadness in the world capable of turning off his morning...

byJavier Brandoli

16 December, 2015

wat Muang: The most surreal temple in Thailand

A giant Buddha barged between rice paddies. Nothing seemed to explain why precisely there emerged, a golden figure 92 meters high. In the shadow of the Buddha work daily farmers in the province of Ang Thong, overwhelmed by the dimensions of one of the 10 largest statues in the world.

byDaniel Landa

14 December, 2015

Marwan: «There is no one to put him 20 times the finger in the eye and do not drop a host »

The Spanish singer-songwriter and poet, Palestinian son, speaks clearly of the Israeli conflict, the bombs of paris, the Iraq War, Islamic radicalism and abuse, in your opinion, from west to east. And also of his poetry, love on both sides and the meaning of his works.

byJavier Brandoli

30 November, 2015

Big Island: jam on the island without cars

An idyllic car-free island in the Marmara Sea that, throughout history, it has been the refuge of princes who have come to fewer and millionaires with no more homeland than money. Prohibited to use any motorized means. Can only be traveled by carriage, bicycle or on foot. It sounded so good you had to get close.

byRicardo Coarasa

27 November, 2015

Monarch butterfly: the arrival of the dead

“It was like this. Industrialized products arrived and we began to consume. Before, our women would walk four hours to the city and exchange tortillas and fruit.. Barter was previously practiced. Now we need money for everything.”.

byJavier Brandoli

16 November, 2015

1944 Collarada 2015

"Excursion to Collarada". Thus had my father headed, in 1944, a sheet that now seemed unable to resist a puff: that of his ascent to Collarada from Villanúa, one of the highest slopes in the Pyrenees. I had been around my head for a long time to try to emulate him. Seventy one years later, the time had come.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 November, 2015

The battle narco in the Golden Triangle

Do you feel that every day can kill you? "I care for will not happen, but it will always be probable ", Eden responds Leopoldo Molina, mayor of Guadalupe y Calvo, municipality in the Sierra de Chihuahua ....

byJavier Brandoli

11 November, 2015

Bangkok, 15 years after

One tends to return to the happy face bobo places. Longing to return to Bangkok was distorted by those endless nights party, that youth who now longed to wander the neighborhood of Sukhumvit Road, 15 years after.

byDaniel Landa

9 November, 2015

Cofete: the most spectacular beach of the Canary Islands

Twelve kilometers of sandy unspoiled beach Cofete, protected by a succession of mountains that seem to rise tonne soot, contrasts with the vast expanse of sand saffron separating it from the Atlantic.

byRicardo Coarasa

6 November, 2015

Patzcuaro: the night of the dead

Mrs. Luisa is in the same chair, the same day of the year and before the same photos that he has been praying since one by one they were leaving. Since then, the night of 1 November, she pampers her altar, place your photos and light candles to show your dead the way, the way back home. We are in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán.

byJavier Brandoli

3 November, 2015

Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	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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