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Tibelle

Tibelle


18 places I want to go   11 places I've been
  2. 1. Spain
    Europe
    1 cheer     		8,603 people
  3. 2. Namibia
    Africa
    		521 people
  4. 3. South Africa
    Africa
    		5,468 people
  5. 4. Bulgaria
    Europe
    		617 people
  6. 5. Hawai'i
    United States
    		7,227 people
  7. 6. Russia
    Europe
    		6,252 people
  8. 7. Argentina
    South America
    1 cheer     		3,961 people
  9. 8. London
    United Kingdom: Great Britain: England
    1 cheer     		7,036 people
  10. 9. Morocco
    Africa
    		5,041 people
  11. 10. Curaçao
    Netherlands Antilles
    		92 people
  12. 11. Greece
    Europe
    		11,449 people
  13. 12. Valparaiso
    Chile
    2 cheers     		82 people
  14. 13. India
    Asia
    		8,295 people
  15. 14. Angola
    Africa
    		160 people
  16. 15. Mozambique
    Africa
    1 cheer     		500 people
  17. 16. Italy
    Europe
    1 cheer     		13,928 people
  18. 17. Senegal
    Africa
    		434 people
  19. 18. Israel
    Middle East
    		2,503 people

Recent entries

Angola, Africa

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The first time I learned more about Angola than the superficial fact that it was once a Portuguese colony was during a seminar on politics of African states- it has an incredibly interesting history and is a fascinating place! I wound up doing a policy analysis focusing on Angolan politics post its four civil wars, and then found myself really wanting to go there. A couple former professors of mine who have done some extensive traveling and work in Angola have been more than supportive, so perhaps after I get my master’s degree it will be something I can do.

over 6 years ago

Valparaiso, Chile

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I have a thing for temperate coastal cities, I love the sea- someone once told me that Lisbon, San Francisco, and Valparaiso have so much in common. And I’ve been captivated by this poem by Neruda, here is the English translation:

I love, Valparaíso, everything you enfold,

and everything you irradiate, seabride,

even beyond your mute nimbus.

I love the violent light with which you turn

to the sailor on the sea night,

and then, orange-blossom rose,

you’re luminous and naked, fire and fog.

Let no one come with a turbid hammer

to pound what I love, to defend you:

none but my being for your secrets:

none but my voice for your open

rows of dew, for your steps

on which the sea’s brackish materninty

kisses you, none but my lips

on your cold siren’s crown,

raised in the air of the heights,

oceanic love, Valparaíso.

Queen of all the world’s coasts,

true headquarters of waves and ships,

you’re in me like the moon or like

the bearing of the wind in the treetops,

I love your criminal alleyways,

your daggerlike moon upon the hills,

and amid your plazas the seafolk

decking springtime in blue.

Please understand, I beg you, my seaport,

that I’m entitled

to write you the good and the evil

and I’m like bitter lamps

when they illuminate broken bottles.

over 6 years ago

Portugal, Europe

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Almost there… I’ll be spending a week there at the end of August! :-)

over 6 years ago
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