If it's about presenting a book, What better than doing it surrounded, precisely, Book. And if, also, It's a travel book, Few more appropriate sites than a bookstore as evocative as Tierra de Fuego. Yesterday, in the number 3 of the Conde Duque Crossing, Madrid, We met a few friends from
VAP (if the chronicler were not an interested party, he would even dare to point out that the room was full) clothing long for our book, El mundo de equipaje, the first of the new editorial collection, we hope prolix, Travel to the Past.
We are not crazy. We already know that books are not sold. We already know that the crisis does not help. But, nevertheless, A good day we decided
Use the scarce four years of hard work in editing the world of luggage, An invitation to travel the world with well open eyes, the attentive ear and the ability to surprise intact. Moments like those lived yesterday compensate for that effort.
One day we decided to use the scarce four -year booty of
hard work in editing a book
Because yesterday, In the Tierra de Fuego bookstore it was heard of travel, of many trips, of that vap philosophy that so well recreated Pepe Martín, the AUTHORS AGENCY (thanks María Jesús González), but, Above all, that restless spirit that has allowed us to publish more than 1.100 Travelers reports: The curiosity of childhood that none of those who were there has let it go out completely. And that's why Raul Garcia (Grytviken: a toast on the grave of Shackleton) He arrived convinced that his therapy to try to travel less was on the right track and dreamed with Libyan deserts, Pacific Islands and Cameroon jungles before his wife's resigned gaze.
That same spirit led to Vincent Marian Plédel and Ocaña (Angola: Centinelas del Camino and Libya: Stones that speak) to remove agendas and quadrate impossible (something to what, moreover, They are very accustomed) To be with us. Some regretted it, Because after listening to Vicente's first intervention, With their overflowing traveled experiences in more than a hundred countries, more than one would have begged the land to swallow. But no one was swallowed, fortunately. And hearing Laura Berdejo (The circular time of Manono and Sydney: The opera ghost), With that ease you have to sweeten the words, We listen to break the Pacific waves, before Alicia Sornosa (Chiloé: THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK ESTER), 76.000 km in motorcycle and a return to the world after, We showed us the courage of a woman with a fragile appearance now moved now in a restless snake (for your own confession) Waiting for the next trip.
In Tierra de Fuego that restless spirit was felt that has allowed us to publish more than 1.100 Travelers reports
And then he got up Enrique Vaquerizo (Ouagadogou and shooting stars, The endless interfula of El Lamido and Madidi Park and the secrets of the Toromonas), that has not done the mili but an erasmus, And we captivated us how his written words captivate us, With that traveling passion that has broken down on VAP all these years, From Bolivia to Niger with a stop in Cameroon. And, also, He likes Paris.
Olga Moya (Mae Ra Moe, The jail without bars and Puerto Galera, story without a moral), after, He reminded us that distrust is a bad travel companion, Even if expensive is paid, or maybe that's why. With his paused verb, ended up confessing that, That there was moral. And what if there is.
Olga Moya reminded us that distrust is a lousy travel companion
It was time to follow the steps of the Basque Tata in the beloved Mexico. Goyo G. Maestro (Michoacán: trip to the Basque utopia of Tata), very generous with VAP, It fueled everyone's curiosity for this singular character, evidencing one of the hallmarks of which we make trips to the past: The passion for places where history has left its mark. Behind the cumin, The Rice&Curry and Guindillas travel Alex Zurdo (De Kandy a Nuwara Eliya: eating tea on the train). First travel your stomach, And behind the. Reading your chronicles is, also, smell them and, almost, eat them. So the aromas of Sri Lanka's kitchen accompanied his words and some dreamed with the cane and lid.
But there was still time for Juancho Sanchez (Kiss of God 5.416 meters high and choquequiraw: Machu Picchu unknown), With an unbeliented infiltrate awareness, will praise the spirit of vap and drop, Like who does not want the thing, That one day he rebelled against prudence, He left everything and lost many months by Asia. Go with the infiltrates!
Juancho Sánchez one day rebelled against prudence, He left everything and lost many months by Asia
Thousands of kilometers from Madrid, In the Japanese city of Takayama, One of the VAP struts, Daniel Landa (Lesotho: a forgotten country in the mountains, Kamchatka entre the bruma, Diomedes: Island doomsday, The story of the indigenous that moved Google Earth and Canaima: water flights), Surely he was smiling at happiness in full recording of his documentary series "Pacific". And on the other side of the globe, South Africa, Javier Brandoli (Cape Town: woman from my balcony, Girls soldier: his tale of horror, Lower Zambezi: the couple who came to say goodbye to Africa, Cayambe: the maternity of the middle of the world and the false mythical of the lonely traveler), VAP co -founder, Surely he was cursing not being able to be with us despite the joy of completing his long journey by car from Madrid to Cabo. In Madrid, Your partner and friend Ricardo Coarasa (The magic of the Nile, Debre Damo: The monastery of the Monks-Pájaro, Ngorongoro: the melancholy of fleeting pleasures, Everest: The routine of beauty and eyipantla: Viridian girl's eyes) He missed them.
All those who could not be, They were too. A book with so many parents can never be helpless.
And all who couldn't be (a Sebastián Álvaro He crossed an unexpected conference in Burgos along the way), Gerardo Bartolomé From Buenos Aires, Mayte Touch From London, Edward Winter Brussels, Maria Ferreira In Cairo, Gonzalo Guajardo in Addis Ababa, Diego Cobo About to face the great north by bicycle, Josep M. Palau Barcelona, Nacho of the Currency, The teacher Eduardo Martinez de Pison, Nacho Melero, Juan Ramon Morales, Miquel Silvestre and Cristina Trujillo, They were too, in one way or another, In the presentation of El Mundo de luggage. A book with so many parents can never be helpless.
As the thing was baptized, In the end there were wines and beers, for the kindness of the people of Tierra de Fuego (Thanks Miguel Ángel), and a snack full of signatures (Thanks Santiago, Paquita, Rosa, Carlos, Curro and a long etcetera today more than ever surely unfair). And then, clear, more beers and more wines because the book was born with health and had to be celebrated. Thank you all at heart.
