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Archives of a desperate walk trying to reach Trastevere, Rome
Hello dear friends of Wednesday Walk, today I come to share a walk that was quite fun in the end, but for me, somewhat desperate while it was happening, haha. And the thing is that one day while walking around Rome, I decided to go to the famous Trastevere neighborhood, one well known for being somewhat bohemian. Apparently it has little bars and is very nice to look at.
Since I had been walking around Rome for a while and the city had seemed friendly, safe and beautiful, I decided to go to Trastevere on foot.
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Archivos de una caminata desesperada intentando llegar a Trastévere, Roma
Hola queridos amigos de Wednesday Walk, hoy vengo a compartir una caminata que fue bastante divertida al final, pero para mi, algo desesperante mientras ocurría, jaja. Y es que un día mientras paseaba por Roma, decidí ir al famoso barrio de Trastevere, uno muy conocido por ser algo bohemio. Aparentemente tiene barcitos y es muy agradable a la vista.
Como ya llevaba bastante caminando por Roma y la ciudad me había parecido amigable, segura y bella, se me ocurrió ir a Trastevere caminando.
At that time I didn't have a European SIM card, so I was losing internet frequently and was only connecting at a few points that offered WiFi for customers. For this reason, at one point I completely lost track of space.
Although I looked at Google Maps, I could not locate myself, but even without data, the application showed me that nearby there was something that looked like an urbanization because there were the quadratics that indicate that there are buildings or houses.
En aquel momento no tenía una tarjeta SIM europea, por lo que perdía internet con frecuencia y solo me iba conectando en algunos puntos que ofrecían WiFi para clientes. Por este motivo, en un momento perdí por completo la noción del espacio.
Aunque me fijé en Google Maps, no podía ubicarme, pero aún sin datos, la aplicación me mostraba que cerca había algo que parecía una urbanización porque estaban los cuadráticos que indican que hay edificios o casas.
The endless street
I was walking down a street, which I don't know at what point became a road. At that moment I understood about walled cities. It was not that I had arrived at a walled city or something like that, but suddenly on the sides of the street where I was walking and cars were passing there were only high walls, some of them with protection on top, like barbed wire (in Argentina this is called concertina and I was very surprised to see it in Rome).
The street had curves and at one point I simply could not see whether cars or motorcycles were coming or not, and there are plenty of the latter in Rome.
I had two options: either I went back and kept my back to the cars, or I continued. I didn't think too much about it, I just kept going.
La calle interminable
Yo estaba caminando por una calle, que no sé en qué momento se convirtió en ruta. En aquel momento comprendí aquello de las ciudades amuralladas. No es que hubiese llegado a una ciudad amurallada o algo así, sino que de golpe a los costados de la calle por la que yo caminaba y pasaban autos solo habían muros altísimos, algunos de ellos con protección arriba, como alambres de púa (en Argentina eso se llama concertina y me extrañó mucho verlo en Roma).
La calle tenía curvas y en un momento sencillamente no podía ver si venían o no autos o motos, que de estas últimas hay un montón en Roma.
Tenía dos opciones: o regresaba y quedaba de espaldas a los autos, o seguía. No lo pensé demasiado, simplemente seguí.
Ten minutes must have passed while I was walking like that. My eyes were wide open like saucers begging to see at least one street that intersected with that one that seemed to be endless with its walls and its sinuous outline with curves that turned to one side or the other.
I don't know how I took some pictures in that desperation, Blair Witch Project style, like: "this is the record of what happened", hehe. I really had a lot of nerves, until I started to see new buildings, facades, slower cars, and then I calmed down, because that meant I had finished that seemingly eternal street.
Deben haber pasado 10 minutos mientras caminaba así. Mis ojos estaban abiertos como platos rogando ver al menos una calle que cruzara con aquella otra que parecía ser interminable con sus muros y si trazo sinuoso con unas curvas que giraban hacia uno y otro lado.
No sé cómo tomé algunas fotografías en aquella desesperación, al estilo Proyecto Blair Witch, como: “este es el registro de lo ocurrido”, jeje. Realmente pasé muchos nervios, hasta que empecé a ver nuevos edificios, fachadas, autos más lentos, y entonces me tranquilicé, porque eso significaba que había terminado aquella calle en apariencia eterna.
The picturesque neighborhood, edge of Trastevere
I walked through that sector, it was one of the edges of Trastevere, very beautiful indeed, picturesque and with some ups and downs that offered semi-panoramic views of more hidden sectors of the city.
The sun in Rome at sunset seems to bathe the Italian capital with a very special light at different times, so I enjoyed a beautiful sunset as I crossed the Tiber River on my way to my hostel, no longer wanting to go into Trastevere. I just wanted to step on "solid ground" and rest.
El pintoresco barrio, borde de Trastévere
Caminé por ese sector, era uno de los bordes de Trastévere, muy bello por cierto, pintoresco y con unos altibajos que ofrecían vistas semi panorámicas de sectores más escondidos de la ciudad.
El sol en Roma en sus atardeceres parece bañar a la capital italiana con una luz muy especial en sus diferentes horarios, por lo que disfruté de una puesta de sol bellísima mientras cruzaba el Río Tíber de camino a mi hostel, ya sin ganas de adentrarme en Trastévere. Solo quería pisar “tierra firme” y descansar.
As I crossed to the other side of the river, towards the east side of Rome, I found a kind of park where there were sculptures like La Bocca della Verità. I took some pictures of that space and went back to the hostel where I was staying (The RomeHello).
Al pasar hacia el otro lado del Río, hacia la zona este de Roma, encontré una especie de parque en donde había esculturas como La Bocca della Verità. Tomé unas fotos de aquel espacio y regresé al hostel donde me hospedaba (The RomeHello).
This is a memory, but I think it deserves a place in my blog, because it taught me to always have Wifi, to make sure that where I'm going to walk is not exclusively a route, to learn when to choose to go by some means of transportation and not on foot.
In short, an anecdote really, hehe.
Este es un recuerdo, pero creo que amerita tener un lugar en mi blog, pues me enseñó a siempre tener Wifi, a asegurarme de que por donde voy a caminar no es exclusivamente una ruta, a aprender cuándo elegir irme en algún medio de transporte y no a pie.
En fin, una anécdota en verdad, jeje.
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