“Somewhere in Korea 1″ by Manuel Alvarez Diestro
20 days/ 10 cities. I have just arrived in Cairo and doubt I have been in Madrid, Santander, Potes, Paris, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Shimono Seki, Busan and Seoul. I would repeat it again and again and again. In the coming days I will be posting stories on these cities.
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“window framing tree, towers and hidden river” by Manuel Alvarez Diestro
I was at 600 AM in the North West of Guangzhou. I was looking for holes on walls where I could see through and discover new vistas of the periphery. On a little street full of marble workshops I found a rusty gate with several openings. I bended my knees and saw a row of towers in the back perfectly aligned. The written red Chinese characters next to the wholes reminded me I was in China. Later I would discover that between the towers, the esplanade and tree lied the Pearl River or perhaps one of its many branches.
I left the gate and reached an iron bridge similar to those built by the Eiffel school. A train passed through and the structure vibrated. I closed my eyes and wondered I could be in the Colindres iron bridge traversing the Ason River or in the Imbaba bridge traversing the Nile River in Cairo.
I did not take a photo of the iron structure but I let you imagine that not far from the view that you can see there is a bridge on the left margin and a river between the towers and the tree.
Guangzhou will be coming soon to www.transitorycities.com
HKG from above by M. Alvarez Diestro
I wish I had the enough memory to have a souvenir of that flight. I spent many hours next to somebody. I do not recall anything. A face, conversation…something.
But I remember those locations below.
