disquisition
Barcelona, \u200b\u200bMadrid, Costa Brava, Zaragoza, Pamplona, \u200b\u200bA Coruna, Bilbao, San Sebastian, Cudillero, Viveiro, Santiago, Rias Altas, Rias Baixas, Navarra, Aragon, Basque Country and Galicia, Catalonia and Madrid then again. I have turned Spain much. More than 20 years ago was that the only foreign trip that I faced with my parents and my brother after a difficult period, which was followed by another equally difficult, not beautiful, nor ugly. But so difficult. Even for this are linked to Spain. Gnappi we would move tomorrow, I work closely with the largest publisher of English, Iberian food excites me, Picasso, Bunuel, Almodovar, the Fear Factory, Javier Bardem, some of my personal myths come from there. is a nation that I love ... And for that I feel a bit 'green with envy. By the end of the dictatorship, the proud people rolled up their sleeves and, through a series of federal agreements noticed was able to create a decent economic machine. Aznar has steered the Spaniards in Europe and Zapatero was able to hurl into the new millennium ...
Madrid is a beautiful, warm and multicosmopolita (AWW) is governed by the proverb "if you're in Madrid, six of Madrid." A city with the doors wide open, welcoming and Latin America, with a dozen subway lines open until 2 am, the center closed to traffic cops friendly area, a district, Chueca, homosex friendly, fair rents, services available to all hours, exciting museums (Thyssen visit !!!!). Who cares if I was there it rained a lot. Spain I always see it with the sun.
Back in Rome is always a trauma. Rome is a beautiful city, full of things to see and do, is the best that Italy has to offer at this time. Florence, Naples, Bologna, Milan even have many pros and cons, but Rome is unquestionably a cut above all, for one reason or another. If you need to do at least an hour and a half of public transport every day to get home, you end up seeing that side of Rome would rather hide from view. See only the impossible roads, public transport maimed, the ignorance of people. See
Rometta lyrics Remo
Remotti and not that of Fellini's Dolce Vita. You see to what you can offer at that time. And what he offers is not very good. And then I feel sorry for those who live in the suburbs and works out of Rome, if Rome did not have their own. Manco see it, they think that Rome is just an abbreviation on car number plates, the only place where he opened the first Italian Apple Store, where there are more movies that virgin girls between sixteen and seventeen years (which is not necessarily a bad thing, I like the metaphors but stupid). That is not Rome. And I do not know if they are lucky to live in a happy unconsciousness, or the Rome I "real" the pool every evening and watch the parade in the dirty windows of a bus and out of breath and sudoso shabby.
Rome knows well hidden. Between St. Petrine and another, between the holes of national road, between the seats of a taxi at large, including the minutes spent waiting for buses from the bolts loose. He hides among the crossroads of the employees of the Minister of Agriculture who are fighting the corner bar, between the inflated bills, including the municipal payroll deductions. Rome slips between the police that crave certain rules, including the paperwork of divisions between the uncomfortable seats of crowded emergency room.
not want to be misunderstood, but you know Madrid well hidden: high inflation, the uncertainty of labor contracts, social inequality, lack of energy and the continuing separatist anxieties are major problems, petty crime, the ruthlessness of banks and misinformation too. But Madrid may discuss these issues calmly "macro" with the awareness of having a city that the problems "micro" it has already been solved long ago. The Romans could say the same thing?
PS good news: A force to go to Spain, to work with the Catalans and English magazines to read, I ordered at the bar and restaurant, pick up and talk about comics in Castellano. In practice my English survival has become something more.
PSII in July to be released the second volume of Nemesis The Warlock. A masterpiece by Pat Mills and Kev O'Neill. Accattatevillo!
PSII
reborn When I do the hepatologist in Madrid. With all that fried swallow, 'sti English, I think the hepatologists are the billions!