At the gates of Namibia
My last look at Cape Town, real, from the Table View, how my mood at that moment: fog, that you could not see the city across the bay, and a sunken ship, and corroded iron, before my eyes
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Salamanca: Columbus springboard
A Dominican willing to dream. A sailor with a reckless adventure under the arm. A brother who wants to believe. An alien tired of no one will believe. Fray Diego de Deza. Christopher Columbus. We are in Salamanca, in the year of grace 1486.
A dollar beers at the bar who visited Van Halen and Elvis
Some even say that played there. Nobody really knows if that was true or an urban legend that the joint owner never dare to deny.
Gracias/Thank you
Now tomorrow I leave Cape Town, after four and a half months of a wonderful life, I would like to thank some people that I've come across and that have been, forever, me.
Abducted by lakes and mountains sacred
As are 1.200 million, and I just know I have three weeks to a residual percentage of its territory, anything you say about China has about the validity of what we say in Norway, where I've never been.
Cape Agulhas: the southernmost point of Africa
Behind is the image of a lighthouse worn and front a wooden walkway leading to a monolith. At its base are two arrows: a, left, indicating that it is the Indian Ocean; the other, right, points to Atlantic. The plaque reads "you are at the southernmost point of the African continent".
Not refrain from reading wine lovers
I have the feeling that when you leave this country next August 6, on the border with Namibia, will start a few hectares of vineyards that are useless. My passion for wine, that comes from afar, just had to stumble on my last week in Cape Town where he was looking for: Wine tastings at three euros!
A change in the look
The grand finale are never easy. The World Cup in South Africa left a trail of nostalgia, new calm. The streets were emptied of people, Environment, of wild nights and returned, in part, Shadows.
Zanzibar: explorers home, slave nightmare
Zanzibar, the pearl of the Indian, essence of odor and taste, is a mask with two faces disparate. Starting point of the great explorers of the nineteenth century was also, for centuries, one of the nerve centers of the slave trade, the most terrible wound in the heart of Africa.
A mountain that falls
China, first day. After the dazzling arrival in just about signing autographs and making pictures with a group of Chinese crazed fire at a party, We have ridden on a bus bound for the mountains.
The message sent to us by Forest
First face descompones, I guess slow motion image must be worthy of National Geographic, then loose a scream, constant, it takes forever. You embrace the tus friends, Dani and Albert, while you scream, only scream and jump in a state of alienation transient.
The other Spanish chronic swollen
They spend the days leading up to the final tracking Wi-fi places from which to check again that it was jokingly 500 euro will cost entry into the sacred City of Joburg Soccer.
Santo Domingo: a nod to the queen Anacaona
Visit the old capital of Spanish is to dive in the history of the legendary first conquistadors and local caciques. The Caribbean flavor filled lung breathe in cities like Santo Domingo.
How could…?
How to describe the last days? How to convey what it is to cross the border of Swaziland and that the police will explain the tactics you need to do to beat the Germans? How do you tell what is that police stop you suazilandesa, I put a ticket for speeding and end up making you pictures with them?
Drinks, How often or Arbeloa Busquets?
Entering, a friend who lives here very funny, Borja, tells us that there pasándoselo half selection is big. Borja go to the bathroom and begins to loudly greet one of our: “Busquets, they are great, are the best "
A short bald Brad Pitt walking in China
Make no mistake, We have all heard so much about these formidably tight Chinese, I imagined crossing the border and finding a guy in machine gun that forced me to kiss a picture of Mao to avoid jail.
Tips and practical guide to Cape Town
Cape Town is a beautiful city, quiet, chosen by nature and history. Here are the best spots to enjoy.
Malta: Spanish stronghold in the great Turkish siege
If you are looking for beautiful beaches, better not read. In Malta, go ahead, not find. But if you enjoy ferreting the traces of history, this is undoubtedly the island. VaP. traveled there to step on the stage of the great sixteenth-century Turkish siege, in which the struggle of the Spanish soldiers was decisive in defeating the Turkish Navy.
What World is not available
The World Cup has completely changed the atmosphere of a European city surrounded by skin African soul. People walk through the streets and experience the city with a new freedom. "There are more cops than tourists"
The countdown to the opening of World Cup 2010
An explosion of illusion breaks when they are aware, after countdown, they, an African country, hosts the entire planet.
Dominican Republic: there rock after the merengue
Yes, yes, I already know that this blog is titled “In the Miami Sun” and consequently only…
Black Guardians of the Holy Sepulchre
On one of the domes of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, temple on the roof of the world's most revered Christian, a small community of Ethiopian monks refuse to be marginalized by their brothers in faith. And 1808, a fire destroyed the documents that supported their rights custodians and guardians of the holy places blacks were confined to the roof of the basilica. And there are.
Sexual miracles of Prince Abed
It was a tupper sex that Elena Ochoa was regulated area will now have clientele, kind of boring, to see their husbands in off in front of TV
Blessed is this car
One of the unconfessed pleasures of tourists in Asia come to our temples, called Wat,…
