For one day, I took Mr. Miljenko Parserisas, fancied that newsboy who wanders the many recesses of Puerto boasting the impressive world record for "Most tattoos Julia Roberts distributed by the body." It beat Pablo Neruda, Ruben Dario , Joaquín Edwards Bello, Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet as the world's most wanted Buenos Aires in Google.
The 70 000 entries returned by the legendary algorithm to spell the name of our street illustrious and amazing. However, achieving grows when considering the possibility of no other person who shares the name Miljenko Parserisas.
That contrasts with other terms of our port that have turned the world nowadays. For example, a dramatic drop chilling video of one of the runners in the race "Valparaiso Cerro Abajo" was uploaded to the network by a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Global furor generated under the title "Chilean Experience to Thrill Ride." recommend it.
addition, our city was named for the second year row, in a report in the Huffington Post about the most colorful cities in the world. This time, showed up at number 10, after Salvador in Bahia. The article invited to participate by sending pictures and slides. Thus, if a regular reader put the batteries and send them more pictures, it would be unrealistic to Valparaiso climb a couple of places next year.
I think of these and other trivialities while caressing my cat and watch the spectacle of 11 ships, including a beautiful cruise that have been put to sea waiting for a tsunami in Valparaiso.
Our city is not alone in her disaster, indeed. However, for unknown reasons, we of the few that grow in stature as you approach these phenomena. Globally, the myth of Valparaiso is synonymous with suffering.
How much help, both tangible and intangible, arrived from Europe after our earthquake of 1906? A tsunami of immigrants, including Italian architects and Schiavon Barrison came to rebuild the port. The Valparaiso today would be unthinkable without them. In this and other disasters, like the Mena Dam, Calle Serrano and the Cerro La Cruz, Valparaiso human dignity has been excavated, again and again, by jaws of catastrophe.
Thus, for a few hours on Friday, thousands of children and grandparents locals gathered at the top of the Port looking at 11 ships and wondering if players would be another chapter in the 5 centuries of suffering of Valparaiso .
But this time, was never greater. We are back to normal. We return to our homes and our riders furious colorful. Become at 82 Julia Roberts tattoos that adorn the body of Mr. Miljenko. Enjoy, if only for today, having emerged unscathed from the myth. We enjoy today, our fragile humanity.
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