El Clan Pata de Perro

14/03/2026

700 million kms away from your room in a second, where the faint sunlight can’t dim the mantle of the constellations, beautiful in their silence. Clouds of orange & gray unveil a second horizon above the ice, painted blue by a distant sun. Thin rings surround the giant God, extending hundreds of thousands of kilometres. That’s Jupiter, in all his splendour.
Waves, frozen in time, extend underneath your feet, broken not by shores, but by cracks and craters, suspending a violent history of cosmic collisions in time. This moon is bigger than Pluto or Mercury, yet the gravitational pull is much weaker than inside your room back home. The ice hides a warm ocean that may be full of life, full of unimaginable creatures known to mankind.
A soft kick of drums echoes with the heart, reminding you of being alive. At that moment, the idea of jumping comes to mind, but you’re afraid you may escape gravity and drift away. So you jump softly, testing gravity.
Ganymede holds you back.
Nothing go fit to change am.
Then, the Universe will worry, because maybe in that moment you’ll feel happy and jump again with all your strength, spinning in the air three meters above the surface, catching a glimpse of Earth.
A faint taste may perch on your lips, something never experienced before —
sweet like honey, fragrant like flowers, soft, golden and luminous, light and perfect, an immortal elixir of life: Ambrosia, the food that Ganymede, the most beautiful man on Earth, feeds to Jupiter every day.
And perhaps one day that sweet flavour would make you smile.
And the universe knows quite well that your smile could dim all the lights of the constellations.
Meanwhile, I’m still here, another passenger on that point of light dancing to a dim light, rushing through the night and carrying my dreams of water lilies blossoming above the gentle stream of the Okavango, soft, golden and luminous in the quiet breeze.
Dreaming about pretending I can ride a wave forever, around the corners of the Milky Way, back to Ganymede and its frozen seas, back to Earth, the songs of birds, warm breezes caressing my face, the sweet air of the sunset, your soft hand on mine as we drift through the night together.

14/03/2026

The river has taken me.
The touch of the water
connects me to the whole Delta.
The water is still, yet
a waterfall of euphoria
rushes through my body.
A deep murmur of wonder
connects me to other worlds.
The sun gently opens my eyes.
I see your silhouette and realize
I'm glad we're in the same world right now.

14/03/2026

THE BIRD AT THE WINDOW
(WHAT THE DUST REMEMBERS)

When all that remains of love
is an inventory,
an inventory
of memories cured in salt,
a scapular with no faith,
no God to hold it,
an itinerary of journeys with no return,
a wrinkled wall of portraits without my face,
bloodstains behind UNICEF posters,
boxes of gifts without gratitude
that only the dust remembers;
on the armchair I once became,
withered with thirst,
an old dog sleeps there,
rotting in the tenderness
I never knew first.

I don’t miss you —
I miss the part of me
that knew how to love you,
the part of me
that believed in worth.

When behind a shattered pane
that turned my illusions into princesses
a songbird sings,
and the songbird sings
echoes of lilies dancing
beneath the moon over the Okavango,
a nameless flower waits for me
among the lycaons,
listening the earth,
listening the earth
laid bare.

When autumn tears the nests from the trees,
when autumn tears the nests,
there are more than enough reasons —
more than enough reasons
to take flight.

18/05/2025

18/05/2025

Hyenas are one of the weirdest, most amazing animals of the Savannah.

One of the animals with the worst reputation in human imagination has to be the spotted hyena. But did you know that female's cl****is looks exactly like a p***s? Did you know that they are the most intelligent of all predators in the Savannah?

Get yourself amazed by some of the facts that make the Spotted Hyena one of the coolest animals to spot in your next Safari!

Hyenas are one of the weirdest, most amazing animals of the Savannah. One of the animals with the worst reputation in human imagination has to be the spotted...

14/05/2025

We come back to Botswana to try to push for our dream. We bought a piece of land on the Okavango, but the procedures are a lot more difficult than we could expected. Is it the end of the dream?

We go to Khwai to camp at our place and try to remember why we are doing this and when we go back to Maun, we're invited by a friend from Khwai to assist to his traditional wedding.

We come back to Botswana to try to push for our dream. We bought a piece of land on the Okavango, but the procedures are a lot more difficult than we could e...

21/03/2025

One of the reasons we left Africa so early this year was to see our kids grandpa and visit the house he was living in , , before he moved to back to the Netherlands. So he drove from Athens to the that took us to . Then he drove again to his house, through the idilic roads of this beautiful . He took us for some and to see the beautiful . Of course, I took the and took some beautiful shots of , and .

18/03/2025

We took our last chance to visit grandpa's house in Zakynthos, Greece, before it is sold and Guy's and Eli's grandpa moves back to the Netherlands. But before we stopped for some days in where Enrique, who's an historian, could tell the kids about Greek mythology, culture and the gay philosophers... And how and why it was the homosexual capital of the world more than 2000 years before Liberace made gay cool... We ended finding ourselves in the middle of the biggest in history!!!

18/03/2025

From the bush to the mountains. We went to in because the kids wanted to learn to and to have a nice vacation with the grandpa, aunt Gouwe and Richard. It was amazing.

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