Posts Tagged 'Miquel Silvestre’

"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 ".

(...) 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.

(...) I tell him I am only interested in something very specific, a ghost. "Agree", accepts the challenge. "I look for traces of a Spanish ambassador who came here in the fifteenth century" loose. "I seek the spectrum of Gonzalez de Clavijo".

(...) 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 ...