I have to recognize something about myself, i really love to live abroad.
I always find new reasons to justify why i am always living and travelling far away from my home. I would be able to write something interesting or new about my experience every day in this kind of moving-life. Sometimes I became frightened in the middle of nowhere and i have to get ahead to my own route. Later you start to enjoy this feeling and call it freedom.
Later i have to thank my parents who began filling my young imagination with thousands of stories about exotic places: Paris, Morocco, London… They used to sleep my brain reading stories like Dick Whittington or Phileas Fogg who both decided to leave his home to find another world.
In my teen years i read “The Trip Around the World of a Novelist” of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez and with special interest the travel in India.
Many people could argue that there are already many things in my home city or even in Spain to discover…and they are right…and of course i will do it, but not now.
If i were still in Santander i would have never found a woman showing me a cobra in the middle of a city. I would have never listened from the voice of a Indian friend the history of the independence of India while drinking Chai. In Santander i would have never thought that in Europe i am free to love the person i love.
And of course i am not so inconsistent and i know its no possible to life always travelling but….i will try to find the equilibrium
Blasco Ibañez wrote at the beginning of his world trip: “However long or short my trip may be, it cannot help but be more interesting than staying at home in this pleasant corner of the globe. It is better to go around the world in a few months than never to go around it at all”
10 years after reading this book and 90 years later than Blasco i am here in India visiting the same places which my mind use to dream while reading this book.
And yes i really like this part of the globe. Why??
First his incredible people, extremely curious, friendly, helpful and funny.
Second, because each day it is a small adventure in which you cannot wait anything since the things will be always different…and that´s great.
Third, cause the deutsch invention called time, here is certainly a different magnitude or should be called in a different way….and thats also incredible. There is no hours or days, for Indian there is only the word “five minutes”….that could be finally half o three hours.
And other grate reason is his cheap errant hotel (sleeper class of train) but i will talk about it in other articles, cause it worths more than one line and also i will have more experience.
In 13 days i will leave Manipal to enrol myself in a quite long trip in hole India. First New Delhi then Bombay….and then…India will give us the answer.
I want to share with u all a fragment of the book of Blasco about Bombay:
“About the streets of Bombay, in the cafés, in the banks, in the hotel lobbies, one frequently sees pale yellowish individuals wearing white coats and
curious little helmets that are lined with rubber and are somewhat higher in front than in the back.These people are Parsees who practice the mosts ancient of existing religious. They are last followers of Mazdeism, faithful to the teaching and the rites of the mythical Zarathustra.There are only hundred thousands Parsees in Bombay.Some of them are enormously wealthy. Several were knighted by Queen Victoria as a reward of serving in the Government of India. Parsees are descended of the Persians who refused to accept the Mussulman domination….Mazdeism regards fire earth and water as a sacred elements. That´s why the cremations of bodies are regarded as the greatest of abomination in the Parsee religion, since such burial pollutes either fire or earth, just as burial at sea would pollute water.To escape from the dilemma they expose they dead body to the opened air in the famous Tower of Silence..On our visit to the garden where the towers of silence rinse we learned that no one except the priest is allowed to enter them..The Park of Death offers an attractive appearance.. “
I don´t know if we will meet a Parsee, or if we will be able to visit this towels. The personages from the trains or the secrets from the Indian nights are now a mystery. But at least I know what we definitely find: adventure.
P.D (Then i google it and i found that…Freddy mercury belonged to the Parsees.. :0 )













