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| BOLINAO, PANGASINAN 2010' I just wanted to post some of my memorable pics with my friends and family after being inspired by one of Paulo Coelho's novel entitled "The Zahir". |
"After supper, it's the usual routine: they want to show me their city's monuments, historic places, fashionable bars. There is always a guide who knows absolutely everything and fills my head with information, and I have to look as if I'm really listening and ask the occasional question just to show interest. I know nearly all the monuments, museums, and historic places of all the many cities I have visited to promote my work- and I can't remember any of them. What I do remember are the unexpected things, the meetings with readers, the bars, perhaps a street I happened to walk down, where I turned a corner and came upon something wonderful.
One day, I'm going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. The way people will have to make their own itinerary, to discover for themselves restaurants, monuments, and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because "the history we have been taught" does not include them under the heading "Things You Must See." "
-Paulo Coelho
