May the forth be with you...

Hi! Today starts the European Championships of Figure Ice-Skating. So, I would like to wish for Sonia Lafuente, Aritz maeztu, Marcelina Lech, Celia Robledo, Luís Fenero, Felipe Montoya and Javier Fernández good luck and please, Javier, tomorrow evening may the forth be with you...

The Bloody Countess

Have you ever hear about Erzsébet Báthory? She was an Hungarian´s contess who passed the history to have killed more than 630 young women.

She was said to have killed that women, many of them belonged to the aristocracy, by her necessity to stay beautifull all moment and age. So, she used the blood of that teenagers to take a bath with it. Pretty discustin, isn´t it?

Well, that is the story and I tell you because another day talking with my friends of Pink Ladies we were commented a trip to Hungary and one of them would want to visit the castel of this contess. And that´s all for today.

Horrible falls on figure ice-skating world

As you know, I'm a fanatic of that sport and today I would like to share with you a few perfomances which had many problems in their execution. Moreover, even when the skaters were the best un that moment, they post the gold medal for a simply fall. Pay attencion to the faces of their París and coachs, that's so so funny.

Here is the linkers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5UzNkGjxik  It was on the Olympic Games of Torino in 2006 and they are a great pair of ice dance cathegory, Marie France Dubreil and patrice lauzon. Nowadays they are married and are coaches of the most importants pairs of dance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY08tShyvAo  In the same Olympic game, the same modality and the same day, Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio failt their program. It is pretty wird see falls in ice dance but... Her look was tremendous!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpkozDciJNk  Here are my favourite pair of pairs modality. They are tatiana Voloshozar and maxim Trankov and they are absolute marvellous in every single style. However, they are human and in that world championships in 2012 they had a terrible mistake...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEWCudH_haI  The same pair, fantastic perfomance and coreography, although, the Maxim´s fall is horrible and the consecuences could be terrible for both of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56D56iIW_Fk  And finally, Ksenia Stolvoba and Fedor Klimov, pairs cathegory too. It was on the Europe worldchampionships Final last year. She was very angry with Fedor...

The Ultimate Adventurer: Richard Burton & The Mountains of the Moon

I know I'm late with this but better late than never. Here are my answers:

1. Richard Burton: he is a man with a great character plus an incredible determination to achieve whatever he put his mind to.
    John H. Speke: he is perhaps a little bit shy and dependent for people, for instant for Richard and Lowry. He wants to be famous and due to that he goes to Africa with Richard.
    Isabel Burton: she is years ahead of her time. You notice that, for example, because she reads the Richard's publications. From the beginning she is in love for Richard and she accepts calmly and without estress the life her husband has.
    Lowry: he is a manipulative, troublemaker plus vindictive man and he doesn't doubt to use his skills in order to achieve his goals.

2. Obviously, although both characters, Burton and Speke, embark on the proyect about set up the Mountains of the Moon, the motivations and the attitude towards other cultures and people are totally different. Richard wants to learn the more than he can in all the aspects. In contrast, Speke only chases fame and fortune.

3. Both of them feel they are fantastic friends. They have to pass for many, tough and different trials along their journey and that prove them they can trust one on each other. Unfortunatelly, Speke's feelings changes when they come back from the second journey.

4. Victorian society is too many right, polite and a little bit conceited. What I want to say is if anybody doesn't belong to their social class, they don't accept him or her in their circle. Burton doesn't belong to that society, he doesn't care, though.

5. Burton feels and knows he can learn much thanks to the slave medecine man. Moreover, they get on frankly well. When this man is murdered in a chilling way, Burton feels he's failt that man and his honour ( he promised to that man that he would protect to him).

6. Not only is Burton terribly sick and injured, ( he cannot take an another large journey), but also he is jelaows for his friend.

7. Speke thinks Victoria's lake is the source of the Nile whereas Burton indicates that with no measures and tests probably Victoria's lake would be a false source. It is Speke who is right.

8. With regard to the betray, I don't remember that part. I remember Speke betrays Burton because Lowry says to him Burton doesn't mention to Speke in his publications. When Burton hears about Speake wants to go back to Africa one more time without him, Burton doesn't react like the society wants.

9. Of couse, Lowry is absolutely angry with Burton and relieves all his fury against Burton, who blames to the Speke's suicide. Despite Lowry sentence, Burton knows journalists trust on him.

10. Burton is bereaved with Speke, of course he is. Having passed all of that, we notice he remembers Speke with a special affection when he is sculpting his face.

11. We don't reduce to our learning, acknowledge when we travel. We have to open our minds and steep ourselves in the different folklores, cultures, people, traditions and so on.