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Tuscany: the secret of Chianti Route

Florence, Siena, Pisa .... There are few places in the world with more beauty accumulated Tuscany. Art history and overwhelming that this time the mix with the allure of Chianti Route. Small towns, medieval aspect, scattered around a small road through Tuscany. Good restaurants and good hotels to go to one of our favorite routes.

byJavier Brandoli

11 August, 2011

Normandy: the footprints of the «Longest Day»

The beaches of Normandy are a fascinating trail of war who has lived most cruel man. Between sand, museums, churches and cliffs can discover everything that happened 6 June 1944 in which the sea dawned with a date with history.

byJavier Brandoli

1 August, 2011

Three week visit to Zimbabwe

(...) sail on Lake Kariba and sleep three nights on their, I hope, calm waters; and I'll get to the mountains of Nyanga park where tumbling water see you again, this time at the falls Mutarazi (...), porJavier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

29 July, 2011

Sport in South African townships

...Only a few used condoms with the band, in the grass, remember that we are in territory fucked. The rest is an installation of the first set in a third zone. Langa is one of those neighborhoods where the salads are dressed with oil from the car..

byJavier Brandoli

22 July, 2011

Epupa Falls: the water of the tribe of mud

It is without doubt one of the nicest places I've gone for Africa. North of Namibia, difficult to access, there are some spectacular waterfalls. Next to them the primitive tribe of the Himba and their ancient customs that are sold to the dollar. A fascinating world.

byJavier Brandoli

21 July, 2011

The story of a hero in the Republic Center- African

A Spanish doctor who was left alone while the rest fled by the arrival of the guerrilla. One night healing people and seeing how they killed. He saved dozens of lives. Passed fear, very afraid, but decided not to leave. The story of a hero.

byJavier Brandoli

15 July, 2011

Memories of the World Cup in South Africa

The World Cup is in my heart the night that after the Spain-Portugal ended up at the Cuban bar in Cape Town watching an average Spanish team got drunk at five o'clock surrounded by ladies of paid and unpaid.

byJavier Brandoli

7 July, 2011

Almería: the cave where the Indalo was born

What is the symbol that appears in many car sticker in Spanish that seen hugging a man holding a rainbow or arc? Where is the Indalo, symbol of Almería? Who pinto? Why? Can be? All the answers are in Vélez Blanco, town in northern province, fascinating in Prehistoric Cave Signs.

byJavier Brandoli

6 July, 2011

Three days with the "pure" Afrikaner

"So I grew, thinking it was impossible to talk to her until after my grandmother died and came back to South Africa knew other English-speaking, just refused to use. He hated the English and everything having to do with them."

byJavier Brandoli

1 July, 2011

Isla de Skye: Coral Beach

The road shows a wild, understood the green pastures wild Scottish twist on the hills; jump rivers among the rocks; the cliffs that seem made of marble; the persistent rain that seems to sprout from the ground

byJavier Brandoli

22 June, 2011

Mozambique: The dilemma of corruption in African cooperation

Nothing in this post a fascinating story of my trip. There is a special night where I heard many voices that narrate here. I was used to learn a lot, I hope that you would also serve. He told about it so unworthy of a toll as necessary, as nauseating as essential. A dead end? By Javier Brandoli.

byJavier Brandoli

17 June, 2011

Nantes: between Jules Verne and Anne of Brittany

My weakness is Anne of Brittany, perhaps because the first time I met her figure was in the fascinating city of Saint Malo, only place I know where he built a wall to protect themselves from bullies people living within, not possible attacks from outsiders

byJavier Brandoli

14 June, 2011

Tofo: backpackers beach in Mozambique

Tofo is a haven for backpackers, Travellers without a compass seeking redeem lost much time in your day to day or eternal quest disenchanted. It is also home to divers and surfers. Troupe international matches in the same place guided by the lack of maps

byJavier Brandoli

9 June, 2011

Mozambique: bus and ferry hens mud

We pay the ticket and hope, hope, until we realized that decayed wooden boat before us in which dozens of people came up was our ferry. The climax was when the end came a guy who got his bike.

byJavier Brandoli

3 June, 2011

The short life of Albert and Sweet Baby

We ordered two glasses of wine. Viene. He puts on the table and abruptly says in a whisper "baby is gone" (the baby is gone). He says point-blank, as spitting sadness, as we look to shake her hands compulsively. No loss of half smile even announcing that his son is dead.

byJavier Brandoli

26 May, 2011

Benguerra Island: welcome to paradise

There are two ways to read this post. The first is read by looking at photos (the best thing); the second reading the text and check if it says something not seen in photos. It is difficult to describe the paradise. Try to imagine.

byJavier Brandoli

17 May, 2011

Mozambique: sense of freedom

The city falls apart like cardboard soaked by rain. Its rugged skin of tall buildings in the center, of concrete sidewalks with reluctance and constant hole, does not prevent the city has the same philosophy that all major African cities I've visited: throng outside misery, unsuitable sales stalls, fruit stored on timbers or shoes littered the streets. City, however, perhaps by the beautiful sound of Portuguese, seems closer; almost, at times, more Caribbean than African.

byJavier Brandoli

14 May, 2011

Potters of Pisuerga: the enigmatic rock-cut church

The church of San Justo y Pastor is at first sight is a unique place; after the second and third look all becomes impossible (...) Right there, bar below (Mason principal symbol), is carved into the rock a cross that resembles the one used by the Templars.

byJavier Brandoli

10 May, 2011

Velokhaya: "Let Alberto Contador come"

"We dream of being the first team" black "runs the Tour of Spain or the Tour de France", Monde said jokingly Mpongoshe, the director of a cycling school located in the heart of Khayelitsha, the poorest suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. "We are the only black team there", Focus.

byJavier Brandoli

6 May, 2011

Shoes skin and blood transfusions

The cynicism reached its zenith when the very Ngonyama said "I did not fight to stay poor". It's one of those who continues to take, in cash and in the first person to have fought for the freedom of their own.

byJavier Brandoli

29 April, 2011

Swaziland: the satrap and his five thousand virgins

His harem of fornication is multiplied at the same rate as their finances emetic. Mswati, lord of an estate called Swaziland, landlocked country bordering South Africa and Mozambique, amassed a fortune more than encrypting 100 million .

byJavier Brandoli

22 April, 2011

Ring 300 miles to go El Bierzo

A nature trail around the whole region. More 300 km, in 15 steps monographic. A kind of Camino de Santiago, the famous route signposted Xacobea, in the midst of steep peaks. Almost abandoned villages, ancient trees, huts, brañas and animals (...), by Javier BRANDOLI.

byJavier Brandoli

16 April, 2011

The newest hotel in Africa

Agulhas Country Lodge Posada de la Almay. The hotel's southernmost continent. No more. Is final. Es Cape Agulhas. Return is only.

byJavier Brandoli

15 April, 2011

A sex shop in the desert

The first image one has of the sex shop is a small bar Roonie, flimsy chairs and hundreds of panties, bras and underwear hanging from the ceiling. On a case there is a trophy that holds a set of lingerie XXL.

byJavier Brandoli

9 April, 2011

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