#travel to #GranCANARIA #spain - beyond #words
I adore words (in particular the rare kind), languages and the secrets they entail... transcending linguistic levels is sheer intellectual pleasure...
However, I do believe language is insufficient when it comes to expressing superlative, exhilarating, utterly subjective feelings, experiences - considering that adjectives would only adjust these to fit into a certain profile, term, notion, to connote a fixed image...
Multifunctional terms just won't do… there are cases when not even synonyms yield... for instance, the word "unique" has been used so many times that it’s lost its meaning... The culprits? Excessive and propagandistic advertising, progressive simplification of the language, I'd go as far as to say that some notions have been "vandalized" into becoming banalities...
Come to think of it, maybe too functional (thus too frequently used) lexis is not even that indispensable... there's always the good old metaphor and the other reliable figures of speech - not so many seem to be that appealing though.... It's not about rhetorical questions, only another approach to speaking and writing would be needed...
Besides, excessive posting, sharing, mainstream "diffusion" of all possible content leads to redundancy, equalizes and homogenizes perspectives, views, mental pictures...
A long story cut short - this was not a fancy introduction to my new article; I strongly believe that language shouldn't be misused, abused... One ought to generally speak / write only when there's REALLY something relevant to convey! Otherwise words lose their meaning, their depth.
I'm writing this piece as I'm looking out the window - the plane parts more and more from the Atlantic and Gran Canaria... consequently, in summarizing my voyage on the island I'll appeal to the reader's imagination and rely on the double connotation of the Turkish translation of "word", which is "söz" ("word", "promise"). My text was meant to be more of a digression, a manifest for the responsible use of words, for more substance… if necessary, one should appeal to the contraction of phrases, preventing these from revealing it all (even with the risk of reducing content)... It should be about promising, alluding (even telegraphically), leaving 90% to the reader’s imagination...
Less is indeed more... that is how I wish to refer to my latest journey & quest (for my travels are always quests) - in its essence:
Come to think of it, maybe too functional (thus too frequently used) lexis is not even that indispensable... there's always the good old metaphor and the other reliable figures of speech - not so many seem to be that appealing though.... It's not about rhetorical questions, only another approach to speaking and writing would be needed...
Besides, excessive posting, sharing, mainstream "diffusion" of all possible content leads to redundancy, equalizes and homogenizes perspectives, views, mental pictures...
A long story cut short - this was not a fancy introduction to my new article; I strongly believe that language shouldn't be misused, abused... One ought to generally speak / write only when there's REALLY something relevant to convey! Otherwise words lose their meaning, their depth.
I'm writing this piece as I'm looking out the window - the plane parts more and more from the Atlantic and Gran Canaria... consequently, in summarizing my voyage on the island I'll appeal to the reader's imagination and rely on the double connotation of the Turkish translation of "word", which is "söz" ("word", "promise"). My text was meant to be more of a digression, a manifest for the responsible use of words, for more substance… if necessary, one should appeal to the contraction of phrases, preventing these from revealing it all (even with the risk of reducing content)... It should be about promising, alluding (even telegraphically), leaving 90% to the reader’s imagination...
Less is indeed more... that is how I wish to refer to my latest journey & quest (for my travels are always quests) - in its essence:
Gran Canaria, literally volcanic part of Macaronesia and of the Atlantic Ocean, a singular isle by no means isolated...
Omnipresent warmth, never non-stop heat… a heaven of an island all year round...
Cordiality included in any service, almost everywhere (small talk available on demand - usually in Spanish)!
Omnipresent warmth, never non-stop heat… a heaven of an island all year round...
Cordiality included in any service, almost everywhere (small talk available on demand - usually in Spanish)!
And opulent markets - especially the fish and fruit market deserve here the maximum amount of points!
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is a city with highs and lows - from all points of view...
A port and safe haven especially for Italian entrepreneurs (owners of bars, restaurants, B&Bs) benefiting from a business-friendly environment that encourages commercial variety and is not committed to systematic rip-off (like the one typical of the bel paese)…
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is a city with highs and lows - from all points of view...
A port and safe haven especially for Italian entrepreneurs (owners of bars, restaurants, B&Bs) benefiting from a business-friendly environment that encourages commercial variety and is not committed to systematic rip-off (like the one typical of the bel paese)…
The Canary Islands have managed to overcome the economic crisis - even if that meant losing quite a few of the millennials, who were lured by the continental job opportunities.
However, just as many stayed… for the people, the nature, the ocean, the sun, as some of them said.
However, just as many stayed… for the people, the nature, the ocean, the sun, as some of them said.
And indeed there is plenty of that here - 360 days a year of Atlantic sun and the beaches to go with it... Las Canteras, El Confital, Maspalomas way south…
Tourism (and traffic for that matter) is kept within sustainable and common-sense boundaries, running somehow parallel to local life.
Numerous parks come to life thanks to the sports and fitness fans - there's LIFE everywhere: daylife, nightlife, streetlife;
in the evening, in the “middle”-town, turn of the century Triana and not only... tapas bars, restaurants and bistros populate the area leading to the Gabinete Literario and Plaza de las Ranas - local prosperity guaranteed. Of course, the Canary gastronomy and joie de vivre need no further praise…
Deep blue horizon, volcanic cliffs, scented breeze - immensely happy to be alive!
These are all the adjectives I'm willing to use today. The other ones, even the superlatives, are simply insufficient... Exploration and true feeling goe way beyond words anyway… try it out for yourself! A journey is after all a custom made experience, right?
These are all the adjectives I'm willing to use today. The other ones, even the superlatives, are simply insufficient... Exploration and true feeling goe way beyond words anyway… try it out for yourself! A journey is after all a custom made experience, right?
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