Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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In a strange land

Praise borders

I like borders. They are the confirmation that the world is not ending, more paths are left to go. Whenever I get to one, I want to cross the other side. It is a matter, truth, Although administratives have taken over them and determine to turn them into simple customs.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 March, 2014

Asia

Langtang (II): peace under the stars

After dinner the men gather around the fire with an aluminum glass of tea that they put on the stove so that it doesn't get cold.. And they tell stories of ancient Sherpas, of mountains coveted by any mountaineer and own experiences on those peaks.

byContributors

13 March, 2014

Africa

In the darkness of a monastery of Lalibela

Wrapped in his white robes, men and women climbed the slope that led to San Gabriel in silence. White figures marked the meanderings of the path up to the horizon. The more timid, to the meet me, entornaban face, covered by the toga.

byContributors

12 March, 2014

Turkey: no way to africa

But you try to believe when you have nothing better to hold on to, so on Sunday we returned from Mersin town to Tasucu, We arrived at the port and found the deputy director who spoke perfect English and who confirmed that in Cyprus nothing expected us, that there is no ship for Egypt

byJavier Brandoli

11 March, 2014

Talkeetna, the town that inspired "Doctor in Alaska"

Much of the Talkeetna activity took place at the motel bar. Every afternoon the neighbors of the town appeared there. They did it on their snowmobiles, looking for maybe the warmth of a fireplace conversation.

byDaniel Landa

10 March, 2014

Intruder in Sausalito

Right off the ferry, after a journey of 35 minutes from San Francisco, you feel like part of the service of a mansion that the lords of the house exceptionally allow to snoop around the rooms.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 March, 2014

Spain
Europe

Where the Cantabrian has not yet left his childhood

The high estuaries from Viveiro to O Barqueiro have places that are really out of the ordinary and far from any tourist guide. Roads where the footprint of the pilgrim is strange, the people are cool as grass and the forests have eyes that, among ferns, they will appear in our path

byContributors

6 March, 2014

The story of the Black Ester

It, a Chilean woman living in San Antonio, prostitute, beautiful day is long, stylish and fun, It is the envy of local women, whether the "good life" or bad. A man, Roberto, I was in love to the bars of her unrequited.

byAlicia Sornosa

5 March, 2014

Meteora: the monks who were pigeons

One look from there the emotional abyss and remembers legends tell that in the nearby river that everything was chiseled god Apollo to abduct his beloved and even questioned whether those religious will not be actually bearded pigeons learned to pray.

byJavier Brandoli

4 March, 2014

Denali, the icy maze

As soon as we reached the town of Talkeetna, we had the feeling that the entire town was following our steps with whispers.. The arrival of some foreigners by car from southern Alaska would not have anything particular during the summer months, but in the middle of winter, That was certainly a novelty..

byDaniel Landa

3 March, 2014

Laila Peak (IV): the icing on a special love

We came being better than before leaving. Enriched, with the head aerated by the Karakorum wind and the soul full of emotions and feelings that we will hardly forget. I no longer aspire to more. But not unless.

bySebastián Álvaro

27 February, 2014

Chiquitanía, the case of the toad woman

What I saw scared me, I saw a giant toad that jumped out. I also, in shorts I got on the horse and got out of there, I didn't stop spurring until I got home. My wife was horrified, I didn't recognize how old I was.

byAlicia Sornosa

26 February, 2014

In Mostar Bridge

On the Mostar Bridge the shadows walk so fast at dawn that no one sees them. At the Mostar Bridge the maps are glass and the towers are centipedes. On the Mostar Bridge prayers and bells are heard and when the sun goes down the drunken dance the wind without knowing where to lose. On the Mostar Bridge it smells of generous food, to clay pot, to fish meat ...

byJavier Brandoli

25 February, 2014

Skeleton Coast: the desert against the sea

Advertised as advertised pirates: with a pair of warm and skull. Well presented one of the least natural parks in Africa. The coast of Namibia does not want intruders because nature pound their own battle of sand and water.

byDaniel Landa

24 February, 2014

In a strange land

The sedentary traveler

The sedentary traveler does not remember when or how he stopped traveling. A bad day, it happened. Maps fell from the calendar, planes and routes with the same ease with which, suddenly, winter is coming.

byRicardo Coarasa

21 February, 2014

Laila Peak (III): the happiness of impossible goals

We probably don't have a 10% possibilities of reaching that tiny summit that rises above six thousand meters in the middle of winter, lashed by winds that shake you and with temperatures incompatible with life. But we want to try.

bySebastián Álvaro

20 February, 2014

The road to another Europe

After the previous regional and exaltation chants of friendship night, We left for Trieste and stopped earlier in Brescia. Brescia is one of those wonders that Italy has scattered his map. As beautiful as real with its Saturday market where one watched with a smile that the disorder is not just a thing Iberian, It is a Mediterranean thing.

byJavier Brandoli

18 February, 2014

The round beaches of Morrocoy

In the collective imagination, the Caribbean is presented as a turquoise blue or emerald green vacation, because the stillness of the sea tends to be associated with the brilliance of precious stones. The Morrocoy keys are bathed rather in green, a glowing green, hypnotic, that hopelessly attracts tourists.

byDaniel Landa

17 February, 2014

Numantia: pedagogy facing the crisis

The successive goring of the economy should have long ago turned Numancia into a theme park with a non-negotiable slogan: "Lecciones frente a la crisis". No more.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 February, 2014

Eastbound, rumba to about

One November afternoon my friend Victor Hugo showed up at my house and told me about Maputo map. I said exactly: "In my house Azores years I have hung a map in which I pointed out some routes I wanted to do for the world. It is time to make the first.

byJavier Brandoli

11 February, 2014

Travel in company

I traveled alone a few times and have enjoyed spontaneous meetings, nights are fun and the feeling of freedom that produces a map without consensus. But I've also stumbled irretrievably with the boredom of an empty hostel, a dumb way or beer friendless.

byDaniel Landa

10 February, 2014

Murchison Falls: the blessing of the Nile

Time passed as quickly as current. The minutes were not seconds, but liters of water, the same water rushing to the vacuum sandwiched between the rock walls, to get lost in the clutter steam.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 February, 2014

Laila Peak (In): Man's Search for Meaning

You fall in love with mountains like this the same way you fall in love with a woman, for its beauty, for its powerful attraction that only causes mystery, for its apparent inaccessibility, because you close your eyes and you only think about them ...

bySebastián Álvaro

6 February, 2014

Tuvalu, climate change and the magic of simplicity

Read In Sweden there is a soap bubble, Read In Sweden there is a soap bubble. Read In Sweden there is a soap bubble, Read In Sweden there is a soap bubble.

byLaura Berdejo

5 February, 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