Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

1336 articles

Africa

Africa on the move

Africa with which I have stayed is a woman that crosses the continent to open land or along roads and sidewalks, if any,. Always with a pack-and the baby if it has- to the back or on the head. Always alone. Always silent. The millennial silence of hunger and death.

byContributors

8 March, 2017

Nicaragua: chromotherapy poverty

Managua has some scar to close in sutures still be seen on your skin. Central American capitals handle a disorder in the slow movement that has some appeal. Probably are not beautiful places from an aesthetic point of view but the complexity of coming and going one always finds a distraction for which meander.

byJavier Brandoli

27 February, 2017

Summer in Montevideo: city ??field

Montevideo in summer is a city as flat as a field under a blue sky. It is the summer solitude of the rural environment brought to the concrete streets, in whose lethargic afternoons the birds sing, the groups of friends stationed on the sidewalks drink mate and walk, with enough parsimony and calm, dogs, some cats and some long-legged birds that I haven't managed to find out their names yet.

byLaura Berdejo

14 February, 2017

Asia

Thirty-six hours without fear in Nagorno Karabakh (II)

Three spirited soldiers circumvent all my questions. Farewell is imposed when there is nothing more to tell. Everybody here seems perfectly trained not to talk about war.

byContributors

8 February, 2017

Asia

Thirty-six hours without fear in Nagorno Karabakh (In)

Three years in a row I tried to enter Nagorno Karabakh. Last spring I finally got it. I was short and very curious. I wanted to know that small province of the South Caucasus between Azerbaijan and Armenia. And know of his war.

byContributors

3 February, 2017

Mesola: the gift of the Holy Innocents

It was the third time in the last six months I was heading towards the same hill, but circumstances, in any case, They were very different. This time it was the day of the Holy Innocents and had already begun the winter.

byRicardo Coarasa

25 January, 2017

Texturas y colores de Yellowstone

El planeta puede ser un lienzo. Un trozo de tierra en la que se desparraman texturas y colores. Una tela de barro y piedra con olor a azufre, a pino, a agua enloquecida. Un sin sentido de humo, estelas verdes y vientos fríos. Las rocas se recuestan sin pasos en su lomo y en las laderas que partieron en dos a golpes de corriente se agolpan las bestias indecisas. El planeta puede ser un lienzo, sometimes, sólo a veces...

byJavier Brandoli

19 January, 2017

A Place in the World

innocence, essence of travel

"Se buscan hombres para viaje peligroso. Meager salary. Extreme cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Return is not guaranteed. Honor y reconocimiento en caso de éxito".

byJavier Brandoli

27 December, 2016

20 años tarde en San Francisco

¿Qué más hacemos? Y se nos ocurrió una idea magnífica que hace siete años que no realizamos (viví cinco años en el sur de África y llevo dos años en México donde eso no existe): nos fuimos al Ikea de Oakland!!! It was brutal, funny, lleno de emociones. Con esa sensación ya sí de euforia tomamos un avión de noche camino de Salt Lake City. Fuck, costó pero al final encontramos el SF irreverente que habíamos imaginado.

byJavier Brandoli

8 December, 2016

Ephesus: Duel in the Sun with history

Hell was hot and there was a shadow in hundreds of meters around. We were helpless against the overwhelming story of Ephesus, Walking on the Aegean between the ruins of what was one of the main ports of Antiquity.

byRicardo Coarasa

28 November, 2016

On the path of Big Sur

From Los Angeles to San Francisco there should only be one way: the Big Sur. Its name evokes a pending route or crossed out route.. There are always some trails in every country that have something legendary about them., this is one of them. By the sea, at the edge of a cliff, The Pacific is on one side and the mountain on the other..

byJavier Brandoli

15 November, 2016

Fremont Street: the old heart of las vegas

In a country with such a brief history behind it, the 111 fremont street years is an eternity. The Las Vegas Pleistocene is, therefore, Fremont Street, where Las Vegas was Las Vegas for the first time.

byRicardo Coarasa

2 November, 2016

Lello: the ex most beautiful bookstore in the world

Instead of a bookstore, I came across a theme park, a crowded museum where patrons struggle, as in any tourist claim, before for a photograph than for a book

byRicardo Coarasa

21 Oct., 2016

Siete canciones y ocho películas en Los Ángeles

Las altas palmeras torcidas de la avenida dan sombra a moteles baratos que se anuncian bajo viejos carteles mugrientos y en los que no es complicado imaginar prostitutas maquilladas a lápiz de carbón.

byJavier Brandoli

5 Oct., 2016

Asia
Pacific

El pueblo donde secuestran a los niños

En Colabora Birmania se han acostumbrado a hacer milagros, a multiplicar el arroz y las sonrisas. Han desafiado a la fatalidad y han levantado escuelas junto a barrios hechos con cajas de cartón.

byDaniel Landa

1 Oct., 2016

Europe

Recorrido por las iglesias desconsagradas de Nápoles

Estos y muchos otros lugares encerrados en las angostas travesías de Nápoles siguen alimentando las fantasias y las creencias populares desde siglos. Sitios que celan un pasado misterioso e insondable hecho de personajes legendarios, antiguas maldiciones, cerimonias esotéricas, logias masónicas y rituales supersticiosos.

byContributors

28 September, 2016

Coimbra: the pyramid of knowledge

There are cities in which one has no doubt where to start. Coimbra is one of them. Its renowned university, elevated on a hill next to the Mondego River, permeates the Portuguese city with knowledge since medieval times.

byRicardo Coarasa

24 September, 2016

The rare route from San Diego to Palm Springs

The first one I guess is Thor or an Icelandic firefighter, the second is another comic character called Green Lantern despite the fact that he seemed more like Peter Pan millennial version. They left quietly talking down the street. “Vaya, San Diego is going to be weird ”, thought. This is how our route through California and other parts of the United States began.

byJavier Brandoli

19 September, 2016

Mesa de los Tres Reyes: solitude above the clouds

Hearing his name on my curiosity immediately spread the charm of medieval times. They say that up there the kings of Aragon met, Navarre and the French viscount of Béarn to settle their border cuitas.

byRicardo Coarasa

16 September, 2016

Mister Tourist en el país de los persas. Crónicas de Irán (II)

Las rinoplastias están causando furor en el país desde hace un par de años, en especial entre la clase media alta. Por apenas mil euros, eliges una nariz a la carta que en el caso de la mayoría de chicas suele ser la misma, larga y rectísima para realzar las facciones. “En Irán las chicas no podemos mostrar mucho de nosotras, así que lo que puede verse, queremos que esté perfecto”, confiesa Neda.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

13 September, 2016

The women of the Casa Xochiquetzal

I found them to be especially brave and strong people. I realized that they had never said a single bad word from anyone, even of those near or far who destroyed their lives. They always narrated everything without rancor.

byJavier Brandoli

5 September, 2016

Mister Tourist en el país de los persas. Crónicas de Irán (In)

Disparan unos contra otros, mothers, uncles, sobrinos… incluso a sus propios hijos. Disparan abuelitos con bastón, y mujeres ataviadas con hiyab, negrísimas como cuervos. Desenfundan sus móviles y pasean entusiasmados con sus palos selfies al hombro. If you're not careful the Iranians shoot at you, while they hug you smiling and ask you to look at the little bird. The selfie revolution has come to the country to stay and among the ruins of Persepolis a shooting blaze rages.

byEnrique Dominguez Vaquerizo

25 August, 2016

The full story of my encounter with Magico Gonzalez

"Se quedó un tiempo en mi casa, always I am playing with my son if need guns under the table, and once he told me he was going outside to smoke a cigar. He returned two days later. He appeared dressed in a shirt and shorts when not wearing down. They had recognized some Brazilian and went with them to nightclubs and bars to another city. That's Magic"

byJavier Brandoli

8 August, 2016

Spain
Europe

Mountain races, but not cleaning

I have nothing against racing mountain. It is a way of loving nature far removed from mine, but also respectable. Yes I have a lot against, however, of those who do not respect the mountain or get dirty with impunity.

byRicardo Coarasa

2 August, 2016

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