A tuc tuc to "escape" from Sudan
I'm tired of waking up with a Sudanese glued to the hump, however sympathetic it. What I want is to get out and leave behind the black hole and all its inhabitants.
wild miquel
Silvestre Mikel and his million stones. This is a two -wheeled story, A return to the world in Moto, an extraordinary adventure told on the way.
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The black hole of Wadi Halfa
Wadi Halfa is a moridero. We can stay here forever accompanied by dust and life goes slow. My routine is always the same, sometimes lively night visits as of last night. I heard noises bag, like someone in our olives hurgase.
The Coptic maze
"Why should we do it?”, replied the owner of a hotel. "This is our country. We were before. We just want our rights. We silent centuries, enduring humiliation, but things are coming to a intolerable. They want us out but we will not go. Addition, Where do I go? This is my home and my business. It's my life ".
Border Tourism, adventure sports
(...) We were inside a closed room and dark. I looked incredulous and suggested the intervention of an American president. "Which of them are talking?”, he asked with a toothpick sticking between the teeth. “¿Qué tal Andrew Jackson?”, suggested. “No, ese is no me, Ulisses mejor. S Grant”. And so the president whose face appears on the fifty-dollar bills helped me cross.
Bosnia: when the bullets are souvenirs
(...) Going from Split, the territory is mostly Bosnian Croat. At the pump allowed the Kuna, Croatian currency, and sell alcohol and pornography. Bosnia does not have its own currency, works with euro. There are many churches. May not devotion but political. Like the minarets, crosses are flags ...
Libya: a meeting with Gaddafi's "boys"
(...) Arriving at the check point appears to the passenger car made by my disobedience basilisk. Dressed in camouflage, with tight-fitting T-shirt, very short and slicked back hair, mirrored sunglasses. Pushes and jostles, forces me to dismount rudely, requires a passport.
Towards the Grand Canyon
(...) A Mexican told me that the teacher hit them when they spoke Spanish. Almost on the border with Mexico, Columbus appears, a tiny village that had its moment of fame when Pancho Villa made in 1916 one of their raids. The raid would bring death.
On the trail of the Spanish explorers forgotten
With the support of the Spanish Geographical Society, the writer and traveler Miquel Silvestre, contributor to this magazine, begins a motorcycle expedition around the world, to last more than year and a half, on the trail of the Spanish explorers who were strangers to show, how were the sights they saw and how they look now.
The unknown area of ??the Spanish explorers of California
Juan Bautista de Anza was born in 1763 in the current Mexico, near Arizpe. The son of a Spanish soldier killed by Apaches, Young enlisted in the Army. With 24 years and was captain. Featured in what is now Arizona, requested permission from the Viceroy of New Spain to attempt an overland route to California. And 1774 marched 20 soldiers, 3 priests and 140 horses through the desert bare and unknown, Yuma Indian Territory and rattlesnakes.
Albania: Surrealism in the last European frontier
Came to several dead villages. Sunken roof, crumbling shacks, mangy and sickly dogs. Some human beings are moved between the stones as survivors of a bombing.
Biosphere II: the failure of the Eden of human guinea pigs
Those chosen for the glory had passed demanding entrance exams, were supposed to mature, stable and committed, but as soon began living together, were divided into factions almost immediately, conspired among themselves, openly hated and even hid food. Although it could be argued that finding such phenomena of selfishness and conflict, might not have been necessary to spend many millions of dollars and a mangrove planting in the desert.
Miquel Silvestre presents his book in Barcelona
All travel lovers and travel books have an appointment this week in Barcelona.…
A bike at the Cervantes
When the stories are true, no euphemisms or complex, and count what you see and hear, the reader stops reading and begins to make a trip. Ésa es una parte del secreto de "Un millón de piedras". In VOD We are proud to have a staff of top-level staff. Miquel Silvestre teaches a different view of the world through his motorcycle. His book has already exhausted the first edition and just have the recognition of the Instituto Cervantes in Rome.
The life of Christians in the Middle East
A bishop afraid in Uzbekistan, a priest who plucks the bells in Iran, a group of women who smoke and do not wear headscarves in Iraq, a community of respected Christians in Syria, a cathedral next to a mosque in Lebanon, un hombre que se niega a irse "de la tierra en que nació Jesús" Jordan. A great story of Christianity in the Middle East.
The future of Egypt: Modernity and fundamentalism "?
Outside the resorts, villages are miserable and children threw stones at motorists. Cairo, congested and wrapped in a permanent haze; the capital of the Arab world has forsaken God. It seems that the sweepers take twenty years to strike.
Riders for health: African Motorcycle
Solidarity with the Third World poses a risk: that its practical application in the field of adventurers trick is to escape the demands of work and social First. In Africa, Official solidarity white donors tend to travel in Toyota Land Cruiser.
"A Million Stones", Miquel Silvestre
Sentence:"A continent, Africa. A princess, the bike. A stone Milo. Tres mil estrellas".
Africa on a bike. One million rocks
An authentic account of a motorcycle trip through Africa. A book detailing the reality of the black continent beyond the postcards and luxury safaris. En "Un millón de piedras" chewing desert dust, they suffer the corrupt, sometimes, African bureaucracy and finished the night drinking with the strange bedfellows who always invents the way.
