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Guanche Diary #5

About philosophy of tourism, i suppose we are all tourists in this world, in a way, as today’s lifestyle resembles living in an airport, just multitasking while standing, waiting to be faster than trains.

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Guanche Diary #4

But that’s precisely when it gets better: many of the first European settlers of the Canary Islands couldn’t content themselves with this crucial place, both exotic and too small, too poor to afford the conqueror’s dreams. So they went to the Americas, where they could do more of the evil they had invented here: enslavement, violence, christianisation, and the introduction of the principle of ownership with a taste of doom. Many of the aboriginals transfered to mainland Spain later came back to the Islands, both concealing their belonging to the Guanche community and secretly harvesting a desire for their own culture to perpetuate. Such are the whistlers of La Gomera.

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Guanche Diary #3

And yet it seems such simplicity and minimalism can only be encountered on an insular plane. Had I never gone to any island, I would still sort of be able to visualize what the world must have been like when the first conquerors explained to Guanche leaders that if everyone didn’t become christian and obedient, they would enslave and murder them as animals.

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Guanche Diary #2

There is more gossip than speculation relatively to the Guanche, and more fantasy than reality. However, whatever we actually know is pretty exciting, from survival habits to cultural practices cristalized in catchy oddities. Roasted flour with dry fruits, seriously?

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