Word: vientos
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...follow the wide, busy sidewalk (there's also a bike path) overlooking the beach - always to the right. At the end of La Concha is Playa de Ondarreta - a spacious, sandy beach - and 500 m further, at the foot of Monte Igeldo, the walk ends at the Peine del Viento (Wind's Comb) sculpture, a primordial structure designed by Eduardo Chillida. Time to take a well-deserved rest. Pull a bocadillo de jamón (a cured ham sandwich) out of your backpack and enjoy...
...this end, Jamal has just cooked up a new book - as yet only in Spanish and Catalan - called Palestine: Occupation and Resistance (Flor del Viento; 106 pages). In his role as historian rather than doctor or cook, he sets out to give a brief guide to the roots of the interminable conflict there. Israelis probably won't like it. But they should enjoy Arab Aroma, a book that could equally have been titled Make Food...
...rock canyon of Quebrada del Toro, a 14,000-foot-high waste of salt desert, and along windswept slopes the construction crews fought their way, cutting 23 tunnels through the Andean rock and throwing bridges across 36 chasms. In summer they battled thirst, in winter the dry snow wind (viento bianco) that blows day & night. Sometimes construction was halted for months on end because the Chilean and Argentine Congresses did not vote funds (total cost: $30 million...
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