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Two days (and nights) in San Francisco

27/11/2012 19:44
It’s Parisian. Very Parisian. The square is so much that could be unabashedly compared with place du Marche de Sante Catherine in the heart of the Marais or the Latin Quarter Contrescarpe of the French capital. Arguments not lacking. At one of its side rises the Hotel de Francia y Paris, that's the...

Australia Adelaide

27/11/2012 19:04
Somebody said Adelaide looks like a British city. I found it rather an American one, thought its people are with no doubt genuinely Australian. The spacious layout of its streets and avenues is as rectangular as it could be Manhattan in New York or San Francisco's North Beach, with large murals and...

Reunion An Expeditious Saint

27/11/2012 18:35
Some believe he does really existed, as evidence proves. Some believe he is fake; he didn’t exist and is just a myth, a sort of urban legend. Some believe maybe he existed even though hagiographic transcription could be wrong or mistakenly written. Some do not believe anything at all. What is...

Berlin A Wall’s Piece

27/11/2012 17:35
Before November 9, 1989, the day that the border between the German Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic opened, no one would have ever believed that the Berlin Wall would be offered for sale. Thirty years have gone since nearly ninety-seven miles of concrete barrier that split the...

Crosses, High Crosses and Calvaries

27/11/2012 17:18
In the mid of the fog peek, as in that famous Michael Jackson’s zombies choreography, slabs and tombstones stands up everywhere in the cemetery. Even crows caw on one of the gates that define the space while the last day’s light provide a glimpse of a great cross that emerges and stands out among...

Australia A place called Alice

23/11/2012 11:40
Masiko's face reflected in the glass of the bus window. She sat in front of me. Numb, had left her meanwhile, kilometre after kilometre, the tiresome and monotonous landscape slid across the Greyhound Pioneer window. Green bushes coloured by the glass alternated with endless rows of huge termite...

Reunion The Treasure Island

23/11/2012 11:13
Olivier Levasseur, better known in his time as La Buse, still must be laughing from his grave. From his grave? No, because he is not buried there. For a simple reason: the Cemetery Marine of Saint Paul, at the northwest of Reunion, formerly known as Ille Bourbon, did not exist when Levasseur was...

2,500,000 Rivets

23/11/2012 11:02
Two and a half million cast iron metal clinches solidly join 18,038 different pieces of the same material up to a high of 1062 feet above ground level, counting antennas. 109 feet should be added to match the height above the sea level. All these parts are equivalent to a weight of 10,100 tons, of...

The Celts (no filter)

23/11/2012 10:01
As French schoolboys, no matter where do they born, were inculcated in the notion that their ancestors were Gauls, even in any of the tiny Polynesia Islands or any Amazonian tribe in Guiana, Spanish pupils sought to identify with celtiberic roots, regardless these were Iberian-blooded or just...

Algeria About Gazelles and Camels

23/11/2012 09:46
Benabderramane Mahdi is tall. Very tall. He’s also very thin. And if we add a four feet long chèche, the turban kind used by touaregs, he is even taller. In his stays in Barcelona, sometimes he wandered through Gracia neighbourhood streets, looking for the same sort of tea he and his friends used...
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