Dear travellers, Here is a last significant passage from the book The Zahir: [...] I saw the endless steppes, which, although they appeared to be nothing but desert, were, in fact, full of life, full of creatures hidden in the low scrub. I saw the flat horizon, the vast empty space, heard the sound of horses’ [...]
Archives for August, 2008
The Zahir – Part two
Hi Blog Firends, Here is another passage from the book The Zahir by Paulo Coelho. Enjoy the reading and let us know your opinion about it… [...] After supper, it’s the usual routine: they want to show me their city’s monuments, historic places, fashionable bars. There is always a guide who knows absolutely everything [...]
Domenica d’agosto che caldo fa…
Cari amici viaggiatori, Agosto è il mese dei grandi esodi, degli spostamenti in massa per raggiungere la tanto attesa destinazione turistica, è il mese delle città deserte e desolate, del relax e del distacco temporaneo dalla vita di tutti i giorni. Molti vanno in vacanza, ma molti (come me!!!) rimangono in città e si gustano il [...]
Travel as a human experience
“Travel, be it an individual’s displacement or the sum of the migrations of faceless masses of human beings throughout the millennia, is at the source of the human experience. It is one of the most elemental activities, almost as basic as the act of breathing” (MONGA 1996: 6)(1) (1) MONGA, Luigi (edited by), “L’odeporica/Hodoeporics” in [...]
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