Valparaíso / Chile · 2014 Once brought from Europe to secure freight in the ship's hold, the sheet metal soon was reused for the facades along the cobblestone and what was cheap and handy back then, now looks artsy and unique.
To me Chile was...
... arriving to a Tsunami, leaving before a fire · wild horses · a latitude-crossing looooong country boasting Patagonian dreamscapes and some of Latin Americas most bohemian cities · hitchhiking · drastic differences in lifestyle and architecture coming in from South America's econonomically least developed country Bolivia · more elbows and frowns than in other parts of Latin America · listening to Lollapalooza from the outside.
What's it gonna be to you?
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a glimpse
These highways seem to stretch on forever, or at least to the end of the world, well this continent's world.
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Patagonia / Chile · 2014
wild horses
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Chiloe, Patagonia / Chile · 2014
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places / stories
explore
Patagonia / Hitchhiking Chronicles & Idle Waitingexplore
Santiago de Chile / Outside the Fence with a Whisky Flaskexplore
Valparaíso / TV, Tsunami, Neruda & the Quintessence of Hills & TimingShow More
Patagonia / Hitchhiking Chronicles & Idle Waiting
why waiting doesn’t feel like leisure
Just why do moments of waiting feel so dull and wasted? Why do we have to “kill” that time? Usually we can’t wait to get a break from our duties, but once leisure time imposes disguised as idleness it becomes an annoyance.
Santiago de Chile / Outside the Fence with a Whisky Flask
the morals of sneaking in and getting what you pay for
...because it’s true what they say: “If you want to see a music festival you buy a ticket. If you don’t, you can be glad if you end up listening to some of it from outside with a whisky flask"...
Valparaíso / TV, Tsunami, Neruda & the Quintessence of Hills & Timing
a matter of perspective and timing
...still, there was no denying that this little TV set now beamed some baffling information at us: an 8.2 earthquake off the Chilean Pacific coast was sending a Tsunami right our way and suddenly we appreciated every meter our journey had led us up the raven hill...
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