The golden era of the Mafia in Havana
New Year's Eve 1959, Bautista was fleeing the city..
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Jamaica: Bob Marley is no longer king
Reggae fever is on the decline in Bob Marley's land. Jamaican youth prefer to listen to much more pounding mixes on the radio.
The traveler's reasons
Travel has always been the perfect excuse for not looking at ourselves, to turn your face to the mirror. And I say this with the awareness of having traveled a handful of countries from every corner of the planet, from Alaska to Ushuaia, from South Africa to Iverness, from Australia to the Himalayas.
Peru Bus: praise of despair
The first trip was to last 20 hours, but it was extended to 36: first "hill he fell" -as they say in Peru when there is a shift of land-, then he fell another and then came the night, the tropical heat and despair.
Concord: reading Thoreau with his feet
In this quiet Massachusetts town I began to understand that the author who has scratched me the most; that has changed me the most, nurtured, unclothed, separated from the ground ("My house in the clouds is quiet", wrote) and dressed again he talked about things that I, now, he had before his eyes.
Nantucket: return to the island of Moby Dick
I had decided to go long ago, without knowing it, when i read moby dick. I told myself: I want to live in Nantucket. I pictured little wooden houses with candles burning away as the wind rolled down narrow streets and fishermen, exhausted, heated around the fire.
Harlem: one night with Marjorie
The first time he threw the door in my face. The second, whispered a friendly "come in". The third began to caress the piano. Marjorie Elliot doesn't like to be disturbed in her work time, that seems to swell just before each performance.
Don Quixote cycling through Alaska
My journey started cold. I had decided to tour for five weeks 1.600 kilometers through these lands by bicycle, with no company other than a tent, the saddlebags packed with food and four pairs of socks.
Valley of the Sugar Mills: Scars sugar
This valley is the symbol of the glorious heyday of the sugar industry. Located around the city of Trinidad, this immense plain of more than 200 square kilometers is no longer upholstered by sugar cane fields, But references from that past are kept alive.
Baracoa, the end of the enchanted world
The La Farola viaduct is the window to the world - a road of unmatched beauty, but quite devious- from Baracoa. And it is the most authentic way to get to the "primate city" from Santiago de Cuba.
From Havana to Santiago: flood, and revolution are
Talking about eastern Cuba is talking about colonization (This is where Columbus appeared for the first time), of resistance and independence, economic and cultural development, policy, of revolution and, finally, History. A trip to Santiago feeds all that.
Santa Clara and the spirit of Che Guevara
Here, Higuera unlike, the people of Bolivia where Che was murdered and whose claim operates more intensity every 9 October, legend roars between the streets and in the imagination when the visitor hovers between the intricacies of the biography of a universal symbol.
Culture in Havana: Pull off the beaten track!
Havana is a cultural universe that is often unknown, although there may be a small obstacle: meet the vast programming activities. Nothing that is not exceeded with interest.
Sarajevo: a trip to the memory
Today, Bosnia-Herzegovina, tries to shake off the dust from the ashes of history.
Walking the streets of Sarajevo to recall, inevitably, more immediate memories in time.
