Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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South Africa: in no man's land fucking

South Africa is highly developed, too much for his photos with friends to show that he has a moral commitment to misery and yesterday. There are no tribes, no mud roads on which to boast that the car stopped, no reed huts in which lives are accumulated without water or light.

byJavier Brandoli

30 June, 2014

Passion for train stations

Traveling by train is one of the greatest pleasures I could enjoy throughout my travels. Is, more than a means to reach a certain place, an end in itself, something enough left over to me and enjoy.

byContributors

27 June, 2014

San Francisco streetcars

The icons of big cities are usually emblematic buildings, historical monuments or glittering avenues. But when someone thinks of San Francisco, almost always does it on a tram. A city that has made urban transport its universal emblem has, course, my sympathies.

byRicardo Coarasa

20 June, 2014

Spain
Europe

Bárcena Mayor, The varyed village in time

The isolation has greatly contributed to the conservation of its medieval and mountain character, that manifests itself in the ancient zaguanes, laundries, bread ovens, Pajares, stables or windows of their rural houses of the 16th and 17th centuries.

byContributors

18 June, 2014

Those beautiful photos of South Luangwa

A country that has a lot of my image and my heart on this continent. I hardly ever go and somehow never let me go. Now too, by breakdowns, for commitments and that Zambia will never know where it ends the whole. South Luangwa, as I was the Lower Zambezi Park, Iran always with me, Iran always in my memory Africa.

byJavier Brandoli

16 June, 2014

And suddenly, Petra

I was aware of being about to live one of those moments in life that will become part of the list of unforgettable, indelible, eternal. Like the first kiss. Like the birth of a child. Like when you finally see the Taj Mahal and you can't stop your eyes from getting wet. And there are icons in the world to which it is impossible to be oblivious.

byOlga Moya

11 June, 2014

Malawi: Den backpackers

Accommodation in the middle of a mountain Malawi lost ridden by young travelers from around the world. A retreat to live away from it all, You help others and believe in the utopia that can live in this laneta out of it.

byJavier Brandoli

9 June, 2014

Dodging rocks

Diary of a Nomad «touches land»

All continents have something that makes them unique. Africa offers wild animals, Europe and Asia the monumental wealth that sinks in a millenary history, but America is above all synonymous with grandeur. The landscapes that are contemplated here are so immense that they leave you speechless

byMiquel Silvestre

7 June, 2014

Birds Lagoon: Peñalara in privacy

At the geodesic vertex they have painted a republican flag, anticipating the King's abdication in a few days. Someone who climbs to a peak with a spray to paint a flag, be the republican, the constitutional or that of the Thirds of Flanders, He is a complete idiot opponent who should be disqualified from mountaineering.

byRicardo Coarasa

6 June, 2014

Ishak: "It's still spring, the revolution lives on

Topara chance made me George Ishak, political founder of Kifaya, movement in 2004 He paved the way for the Revolution. broke, somehow, the culture of fear of getting the right to demonstrate under the Emergency Law and the right to elect president.

byMaria Ferreira

5 June, 2014

Afghanistan: defeated door

Afghanistan is right there, at our feet, but like a bad dream, it immediately becomes unreachable. In the nebula traveler dream we face chaos reigns. The victorious mujahedeen, now confused fighting spirits drunk, They destroyed between them and annihilate everything that moves in its tribal territory

byVincent Marian Plédel and Ocaña

4 June, 2014

And 25.000 miles after… The end came

we watched the sea, that sways violent L`Agulhas, in search of nonexistent shadows of the horizon. And understanding they were not, there no corners, We had understood that the way and we had reached our destination. And we feel the emotion of the child and dreaming of the adult who makes their dreams come true. We had done, were there.

byJavier Brandoli

2 June, 2014

Elections in Egypt: the retransmitted truth

It's exhausting trying to find something real. I look at the pictures and see the joy of the people and I think happiness is sustained by the desire to be happy, not by the facts.

byMaria Ferreira

27 May, 2014

The best sunset I saw in Africa

It was a new hotel, strainer, the 15 the fourth euros, I had a restaurant with big bows on chairs and shiny boxes on the parking. But, We soon discovered that our room smelled of sewage. Clean hole in the floor which was the toilet gave off an odor that filled the small room, almost giving arcades.

byJavier Brandoli

26 May, 2014

Homage to the Canfranero

Waiting for an old train at a lonely station is a good way to start your day.. One, also, dragging in their wagons a history of resistance against the laziness of the authorities on either side of the Pyrenees, get on it is, especially, an exercise in insubordination.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 May, 2014

Francis: the hero betrayed by his memory

You have 95 years, a white mustache that makes you look like a wise mouse, a smile that lights up the world a thousand times and an early Alzheimer's that sometimes makes him forget that he is a hero, and turns him into a little boy who pees on himself

byMaria Ferreira

21 May, 2014

300 Days in Havana

There is a kind of syndrome that always attacks the traveler who sets foot in Cuba and that he will not understand until after a while. It is a virus that, once inoculated, It can only grow to devour us. Too many people suffer from it. I also, and irreparably. And it's called nostalgia.

byDiego Cobo

15 May, 2014

Europe
Books

Sing Ireland, Javier Reverte

Sentence: “Para mí constituye un placer supremo viajar solo y en coche”.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 May, 2014

Southern Ethiopia: Tribe looks dead

And days later went down to Konso and we met by chance with samai. We were seated at a rustic bar when they appeared spectra as I had never contemplated. No man nor beast they seemed, seemed clay molds made little shade. And all the people of Konso began to surround them and watch as you look at the ghosts.

byJavier Brandoli

13 May, 2014

Palencia, down the road

[st] At 40ºC below zero, everything was frozen, snow plows, lashes and our adventurous spirit. Were…

byDaniel Landa

12 May, 2014

Spring in Ordesa

There are landscapes that permeate your life, that soak her with experiences that linger in her memory until they become confused with her. Landscapes of memory, landscape memory, so much of. They are places you never say goodbye to., to which you always return.

byRicardo Coarasa

9 May, 2014

Ethiopia: goodbye to a good man

Perhaps the most important lesson of this pudgy friend 63 years is the forcefulness with which one can speak quietly. We have not had in two months of route one discussion between the three. How would the, travel with you "are favors that never pay me". Goodbye friend, It was a pleasure to travel with such a good man.

byJavier Brandoli

7 May, 2014

¡¡Kilimanjaro, Hakuna Matata!! (part 2)

During the long night I checked the intermittency of my level of concentration with an improvised mantra: "I'm powerful, very powerful, do not fatigue rules, do not govern ". The mind went into a trance, and she lays with her.

byNacho Melero

6 May, 2014

¡¡Kilimanjaro, Hakuna Matata!! (part 1)

Reconozco que todo empezó con la segunda línea "rosa" a predictor. A woman awash in happiness, a man locked in uncertainty, and a gynecologist witness. "Laura, Mario is on his way and. Now I ask you to let me climb Kilimanjaro"

byNacho Melero

5 May, 2014

"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