Karen from California

“Travelling makes men wise and understanding.” Vicente Mari Turn, Botha, quotes Cervantes to summarize why I like it so much see the world “is a way to learn.” The first trip I remember, “the initiation, any child who was then in Ibiza,” when she was six years (mid 50), was in car until it is Calumet (Sent Joseph). It retains a few pictures of that experience in next to his mother, Antonia, wearing a bathing suit and diving goggles.

Then came the childhood trips to Barcelona, ​​also with his mother, who keeps in mind the images recorded Berge, Perforce, Montserrat and the train that went up.

His third stage as a traveler goes back to his high school years, when his brother Antonio (former mayor of San Antonio) and Joan (exconseller of Culture) were taking him to Spain with one condition: that they do pack. And he knew a great time to prepare because he had noticed how he did it with care, his mother, who was “a clever woman, discreet … and a sense of humor! With four children studying abroad, coming and going, suitcases were on the agenda. The … as everything was impeccable, “he recalls. Thanks to this ability toured Extremadura and Andalusia.

His first trip abroad was to Wales. It belonged to a university theater group in the prestigious Atlantic College performed the work of Garcia Lorca ‘Love of Don Perlimplín Belize in his garden’. The year was 1973 and Vincent University, studying Philosophy, and then, after the stage became a teacher-known restaurateur, did not hesitate to go back to London to buy a ticket for the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar ‘.

For among his great passions, as well as travel, are movies and musicals. In 1988 he gave vent to his love for cinema when she visited a couple of friends living in San Francisco (California, USA). Pathological liar who accelerated his pulse when he sees black films, at that time could not resist a visit to Alcatraz Island, the setting for many films, and even make a trip to the Pacific coast of Mexico to know where ambient ‘The Night of the Iguana, “directed by John Huston and starring Ava Gardner.

During this and other trips to the United States visited the house where he filmed “The Great Gatsby ‘, crossed the bridges of Madison, toured Napa Valley vineyards where they grew Angela Channing, and even walked around with the illusion Caramel (did not happen there) to run into on the street with his then-mayor Clint Eastwood.

Not too many pictures with your current camera, a Fujifilm pocket and 12 Megs a gift from a nephew: “I’d rather see the places that stuck in my heart and memory,” he explains. The view takes you to the extent that there is at home hanging pictures or photos, to manage and view the magnificent landscape seen from his home in Pig des Moline. No doubt, however, in portraying with their favorite flowers, the color mauve, like lilacs, peonies and Licentious. Of the latter shows an image captured in a garden in Lausanne, where he also was photographed next to the hotel school. As a child, “when I was a stove,” I wanted to study there.

Nature is another of his passions, so that if the road runs into a natural park, such as Jasper and Banff in Canada, draws its Chirac (which called the Way) and walk. But sometimes you do not know to stop in time, as happened in Machu Picher, when after being stunned by that environment decided to climb the 2634 meters of Wayne Picchu. Increased, but on reaching the summit and rotate the view back towards that extraordinary slope, had a panic attack. A pair of French helped him cope with his dizzy and fall.

The funny thing is that despite that fear of heights; do not hesitate to hop on planes flying boats or whenever you can, as it did in Newfoundland or on the Hel Peninsula (Poland) in the Baltic, where in 2005 he went to see bison in the wild. ”Definitely, I will progress,” he says.