Javier Reverte trips

Javier Reverte tells us about his travels. He is the most important travel writer in Spain and in Viajes al Pasado we have his stories from around the world..

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Javier Reverte trips

“Ithaca, the homeland of writers »

Imagine a place where there is only sun, blue sea, song of cicadas in summer, some vineyards and a restaurant, Tsiribis, where my friend Dimitris, owner, invites any Spanish it reaches a glass of wine and, dusk, if you like him, recites in the beginning of classical Greek Odyssey.

byJavier Reverte

8 March, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

The refuge of the Mediterranean

February is a strange. We're like in November: both are cold months, sometimes wet, rainy, unkind, no parties that rejoice. Of course we speak of our hemisphere. However, If the memory does not betray me, I think one month is February not too kind to many of the territories of southern Ecuador, because it brings endless rain and heat of oppression.

byJavier Reverte

8 February, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

Aran Islands: literature hostile land

There is a "pub" in Galway, city of the west coast of Southern Ireland, on whose door a poster announcing: "Last place where a beer before Boston (U.S.)”. Of course I took a pint to celebrate the ingenuity of the owner. And of course, also knowing that the statement was not true.

byJavier Reverte

27 January, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

In wild seas: the new travel book by Javier Reverte

As, occasionally, question any reader of this "web" on the issue, say that, for next April, I have a new book in bookstores traveler, to which I called "In wild seas (a trip to the Arctic)”.

byJavier Reverte

20 January, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

Tanganyika and the Queen of Africa

A little over a year since last time I traveled to Black Africa. And for a few days, I sailed on an old ferry, the "Liemba", on the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, one of the largest in Africa; lake area full of stories and legends ...

byJavier Reverte

3 January, 2011

Javier Reverte trips

"The literary shores of the Mississippi"

The Mississippi is a river that goes a long way. Uninformed people say that America has no history, as if history were an issue related to old age and time. Instead, I see history in relation to the intensity of life.

byJavier Reverte

22 December, 2010

Javier Reverte trips

History and McDonald's

Last week I wrote about battlefields and, a little side, reffering me to the field of Gettysburg, wandering through which I walked a cold morning in March this year. The fierce fighting on 1 the 3 July 1863 on the outskirts of this small town in Pennsylvania ...

byJavier Reverte

14 December, 2010

Javier Reverte trips

The "poetry" of the battlefields

Graham Greene wrote that "over time, even the battlefields seem poetic places ". I've seen a few in the course of my travels, for historical inquiries inevitably push me towards them.

byJavier Reverte

9 December, 2010

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