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El sortilegio uruguayo del tiempo

Those who are not from here were somewhat spellbound with those Uruguayans. Not so much for its ability to go running from one job to another or knowing knit, to make cakes, fix engines or dance, but because of its value to bring to the fore everything that smacks entails, disorder, chaos or emptiness that frightens both the Western world.

byLaura Berdejo

29 November, 2018

Blue imaginary

Bright sun deck and toasted midshipmen showed us their lives on board, They spoke to us of the discovery of America and Columbus, the frozen lands Magellan Strait.

byLaura Berdejo

30 May, 2018

24 hours "Ritmo de la frontera"

"Sonaba una banda de bossanova uruguayo-brasileña, and whiskey and roast ran from one table to another in an atmosphere of border fraternities and imported beers."

byLaura Berdejo

15 January, 2018

Summer in Montevideo: city ??field

Montevideo in summer is a city as flat as a field under a blue sky. It is the summer solitude of the rural environment brought to the concrete streets, in whose lethargic afternoons the birds sing, the groups of friends stationed on the sidewalks drink mate and walk, with enough parsimony and calm, dogs, some cats and some long-legged birds that I haven't managed to find out their names yet.

byLaura Berdejo

14 February, 2017

Pacific Time

Montevideo. The blues of the bus

The first time I got on a bus in Montevideo, my heart went back twenty years, thirty, forty, sonaba “In the army now”, it sounded with all its load of surrender, defections, impeccably harmonized litanies and chords.

byLaura Berdejo

25 February, 2016

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