The driver looked back at my girlfriend in the rearview mirror. “Norwegian? No, no, we don’t like Norwegians” he said roughly in his very basic English; “they only like Palestine and talk bad about Israel.” My gal, in her very polite Scandinavian custom, responded with a “but my boyfriend is Chilean.” The cab man changed…
Read moreLove Trip, Episode 02: London, England.
What can I say about London? Not much, really. Only spent one and a half days there, so I’m not able to give an advanced talk on the city and everything related to it. But I can share some facts I saw during my stay. London is big, so it has a clock of similar…
Read moreTransatlántico. Capítulo 00: Expectativas.
Sinceramente, no sé que esperar de este viaje. Cruzar el Océano Atlántico, desde Chile a “las Europas,” no es algo que uno haga todos los días. De hecho, con suerte yo he salido de Chile algunas veces; volando en esos vuelos económicos que se sienten como viajar en un bus interprovincial, pero con alas y…
Read moreLove Trip, Episode 01: Swansea, Wales
Dylan Thomas, poet and Swansea’s only renown character, once called his hometown the “graveyard of ambition.” When I had just arrived to this city in Wales, I didn’t know this phrase, this character nor any reasons to judge Swansea. After a few days there, I noticed something was fishy, and I’m not talking about the…
Read morePasado
Hablar del pasado no es un problema, desde el punto de vista racional. Pero cuando se tocan temas delicados, como, por ejemplo, la vida sexual de tu actual compañero o algún trauma infantil; la racionalidad no se puede usar como parámetro válido para analizar las consecuencias de una conversación de este tipo. Si bien el…
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