Month: July 2010

Nostalgia of Argentina.

18 July 2010
by Arnaldo Pellini
Uncategorised

How can I feel nostalgia for a country I have never visited? And yet, that is how I feel. Some ingredients help of course: the never satisfied enough need to see new places and observe how people live, the need for new landscapes, the nervous excitement that precede the exit from the airport of an unknown city. The most important ingredient, however, remains music. Music makes you travel ahead of time, make you jump from […]

Us and Them

18 July 2010
by Arnaldo Pellini
Uncategorised

I am at the entrance of the pagoda of Gangaramaya in Colombo.  As in the the pagoda compound everybody is walking barefoot, I take off my shoes and walk towards an old man sitting a table. Old style, black framed glasses. He sits at a table and issues tickets to foreign tourists. ‘100 Rupies, sir’ he says and opens the receipts book to issue mine. I put my shoes in a plastic basket and pay. […]