Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

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The river of deception

Where in Southern Patagonia was beached the boat of an old engraving? What intrepid sailor took advantage of this estuary to repair your boat and, passing, explore the river in search of an Andean lake that never saw? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome made the same route. He did manage to see the lake. I will in a week in VaP..

byGerardo Bartolomé

3 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

La Gomera: the well and last prayers of Christopher Columbus

(...) In the capital gomera, San Sebastián, are places (Today monuments) linked to Columbian history such as the Torre del Conde, the church in which the Admiral prayed one last time before leaving, the house-museum of Columbus or the Pozo de la Aguada (where it supplied water for the journey). A sign at the well says "this water was baptized America, year 1492.

byContributors

29 June, 2011

London: Churchill's cave

The Cabinet War Rooms were commissioned in June 1938, transforming a former underground storage to 10 meters deep in a bunker against bombing. The visit may be the facilities as they were after the war ended in June 1945. Some areas that can be visited are the rooms of the Churchill, control rooms or PBX.

byEduardo De Winter

28 June, 2011

Pashupatinath: the river of the dead

Kneeling, head down, man waits patiently for his head shaved, a rite de duelo Hindu. His late father is now a handful of ashes, in the waning fire, about to join the current holy Bagmati River. A few tourists aim their telephoto lenses from a nearby bridge. Can you imagine a group of Japanese poachers shooting his family during the funeral of a loved?

byRicardo Coarasa

27 June, 2011

A journey through Africa

The “Zip Zap Circus” project

Clarification on the end of the project to help Zip Zap Circus. There is nothing shady, there is a communication. Good luck to this beautiful and fascinating children program.

byJavier Brandoli

26 June, 2011

Istanbul: tea among the graves on the hill of Eyüp

Istanbul is a city without parallel, with countless reasons to visit. With one foot in Asia and one in Europe, is full of tourist postcards. But without detracting from its popular mosques and the Grand Bazaar, my predilections point in another direction: the Asian district of Uskudar and Eyüp Cemetery.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 June, 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

Swayambhunath: the temple of the screaming monkeys

On a hill on the outskirts of Kathmandu stands the temple of Swayambhunath, known as the Monkey Temple by the large number of monkeys that roam the neighborhood. To reach the stupa have to climb 365 stone steps, each more vertically, closely stalked by a legion of macaques. Up, you seen the giant eyes of Buddha. By Ricardo COARASA.

byRicardo Coarasa

20 June, 2011

The chapel stained with blood

What reminds this old Spanish settlement lonely chapel? These walls evoke a meeting, or collision, between the old and new worlds in a remote colonial settlement. Now become prime tourist destination, el lugar guarda una historia de supervivencia que nos contará el próximo fin de semana el escritor y colaborador de VaP Gerardo Bartolomé en su blog "Desde la Patagonia".

byGerardo Bartolomé

19 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

Kathmandú: the slaughter of the royal family

When I visit Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, King Gyanendra is still reeling and the city is surrounded by Maoist rebels. The cannon that sat on the throne was a massacre that turned the world 2001. The crown prince shot dead his parents, Kings, and the cream of the royal family. After the regicide, the crown could only sit at the head of Gyanendra.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 June, 2011

On the trail of the last mylodon

The naturalist and his assistant kept digging, looking to find what they believed. The cave was large and had spent several days digging in various places. When they were about to give up the shovel dug up a hide with fur intact. "It's the skin of a milodon!”, exclaimed the enthusiastic naturalist to examine.

byGerardo Bartolomé

11 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

Cadiz: strong sea

Cadiz is one of those cities that you never want to go. Its prime location has been, throughout history, object of sieges and sackings. The danger came from the sea almost always. A tour of defensive fortifications and defenses is a journey through time with a superb cicerones: the Mediterranean and the taverns of old Cadiz.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 June, 2011

Kodari: Captain Haddock's syndrome

"Life does not wait at the border, is all you need to know ", Al Green singing. In the Nepalese Kodari, the corruption not know how to wait. Seeking to recover for the second time the visa and five dollars for not giving a picture card. Captain Haddock's syndrome is about to unfold.

byRicardo Coarasa

6 June, 2011

The enigma of extinct species

An animal species extinct for thousands of years. A surprising finding in the cave of the picture and a question. "They survived some copies of these large mammals until today? What do you call that cave and what a wonderful discovery was made in it? What does it say about Patagonia ago 10.000 years? The answers have a contributing writer Gerardo Bartolomé VOD. Within a week, en su blog "Desde la Patagonia".

byGerardo Bartolomé

5 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

Lucien Briet and "God gun" Ordesa

And these words were not uttered by an Aragonese, although it could have been,, even for a Spanish. Out of the mouth of a Frenchman, coming from the neighboring valley and nothing Gavarnie setting foot for the first time in the valley (1881) pleaded deep love Ordesa Valley. From that moment, Lucien Briet Parisian became a frequent visitor to the valley, you wrote about different works.

byContributors

2 June, 2011

The unknown area of ??the Spanish explorers of California

Juan Bautista de Anza was born in 1763 in the current Mexico, near Arizpe. The son of a Spanish soldier killed by Apaches, Young enlisted in the Army. With 24 years and was captain. Featured in what is now Arizona, requested permission from the Viceroy of New Spain to attempt an overland route to California. And 1774 marched 20 soldiers, 3 priests and 140 horses through the desert bare and unknown, Yuma Indian Territory and rattlesnakes.

byMiquel Silvestre

31 May, 2011

Zhangmu: the deconstruction of the Adventurer

Zhangmu, on the border with Nepal, is a motley bunch of houses hanging from a cliff in thick vegetation where the monsoons wreak havoc. Landslides are common this time of year and, inevitably, every so often a piece of people rushing downhill, toward the stream, swallowed by the mountain.. By Ricardo COARASA.

byRicardo Coarasa

30 May, 2011

Carretera Austral: Conservation SOS

"Do not know the southern road?"- We asked the owner of a stay when, For many years, we made our first trip in Patagonia. (...) Some years later, I spent three weeks to tour almost its entire length.

byGerardo Bartolomé

28 May, 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

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