Travel Archives - DJ Wez G

June 6, 2023 wezg

Guy Ritchie’s – The Covenant

I just finished watching this film, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, which is out now on Amazon Prime. The film is about a US Army Special Forces Sergeant, John Kinley (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) who, in the Afghanistan War, end up

May 26, 2023 wezg

La Santa Muerte en el Reino Unido #centuryofgaga

(English Translation of article below Spanish version here) La muerte es la única garantía que tenemos. Incluso el nacimiento no está garantizado. La muerte llega a todo: a cada roca, a cada árbol, a cada mono, a cada vaca, a

January 12, 2023 wezg

Review: The Motorcycle Diaries – by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

I’ve read three of Che Guevara’s other books, the theory on guerrilla warfare and the diaries of his campaigning in the revolutions of Cuba and Bolivia. The Motorcycle Diaries precede these other critical works and document Che’s travels across Latin

December 3, 2022 wezg

Review: In The Shadow of Papillon – Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela’s Prison System – by Frank Kane with John Tilsley

Frank Kane and his girlfriend, Sam, after their business was failing in the U.K. made the fateful decision to become cocaine drug couriers in Venezuela. Whilst attempting to fly out from the airport on Caribbean Island, Isla de Margarita, the

September 1, 2022 wezg

Review: When Plants Dream – Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism, And the Global Psychedelic Renaissance – by Daniel Pinchbeck and Sophia Rokhlin

I am an ayahuasquero and regard myself as a shaman. This book is a study on Ayahuasca, the Amazonian ‘Vine of the Soul’ and one of the most ancient medicines known to man. The authors enthusiastically explore the history and

November 1, 2019 wezg

Landlocked – Mental Health in the UK and the Prevention of International Travel, Translation and Foreign Language Education

On the Second of April 1997, at the point of my first contact with the Mental Health Act, I had my life’s dreams shattered. On that day, my parents had been persuaded to take me to see a psychiatrist at

November 3, 2018 wezg

Review: Gangster Warlords – Drug Dollars, Killing Fields and the New Politics of Latin America – by Ioan Grillo

This is the second of Ioan Grillo’s books that I have read and I found this volume equally as good as my first encounter with this talented British journalist. Gangster Warlords focuses on 4 separate crime gangs across the Americas.

October 4, 2018 wezg

The Invisible Line of Migration – A Conversation with Multi-Award Winning Photo-Journalist Danilo Balducci, Cardiff University 04.10.18

La Linea Invisibile is a discussion by guest speaker Danilo Balducci which brings together the Translation, Adaptation and Performance, Picturing Others, and Conflict, Development and Disaster research themes at the School of Modern Languages. This lecture was broken up into 3

February 1, 2018 wezg

Review: El Infierno – Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder – My Time Inside Ecuador’s Toughest Prisons – by Pieter Tritton

This autobiographical account of Brit drug smuggler, Pieter Tritton, is a flowing, page-turning journey that documents his twelve years locked up in Ecuador’s notorious, corrupt and highly dangerous prison system. Tritton is already in trouble back in the UK where

January 22, 2018 wezg

Review: Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas – by Elijah Wald

Whilst planning to do a university translation dissertation on some aspect of narcoculture I was drawn to this work (in English – also simultaneously released bilingually with a Spanish version) by American author and folk musician, Elijah Wald. Having been

March 15, 2017 wezg

The Repeating Island – Representations of the Francophone Caribbean

With close reference to Benitez-Rojo’s notion of the ‘repeating island’, discuss how the Francophone Caribbean has been represented by writers, travellers and artists. This essay shall focus on how various writers, travellers and artists have represented the Francophone Caribbean.

December 15, 2016 wezg

No Es Necesario Viajar Para Aprender Un Idioma Extranjero

Has leído en Internet que el antiguo ministro de Educación español ha expresado públicamente que no es necesario viajar para aprender un idioma extranjero. Como estudiante de idiomas, ¿qué opinión tienes al respecto? Soy estudiante de traducción en la universidad

June 16, 2015 wezg

Review: Santa Muerte – Mexico’s Mysterious Saint Of Death – by Tony Kail

This book documents the rapidly growing Mexican folk faith that is ‘Santa Muerte’ or ‘Saint Death’. The iconic image of the skulled woman with a scythe gives hope to many discomforted souls on the fringes of Mexican and indeed global

January 12, 2015 wezg

Guerrilla Heroico

Discuss how textual and visual representations of the Rebel Army during and after the Cuban Revolution contributed to the myth of the heroic guerrilla in Latin America. The original iconic 1968 stylized ‘Guerrilla Heroico’ Che Guevara imagecreated by Jim Fitzpatrick,

January 12, 2015 wezg

Guerrilla Heroico

October 26, 2014 wezg

Review: A History of Spain – by Simon Barton

This is a concise, comprehensive history of Spain which reads very easily and seems to cover most aspects of Spanish history, if only glossing over parts without going into heavy detail. It does recommend further reading and as a general

October 26, 2014 wezg

Review: A History of Spain – by Simon Barton

October 15, 2014 wezg

Review: Roads To Santiago – by Cees Nooteboom

The Dutch author is, most certainly, an admirer of Spain. He writes passionately about his travels across the land, traversing history, culture, and the role of Spain in the modern world. The style is erratic and it takes a while

September 30, 2014 wezg

Review: Translation and Identity in the Americas – by Edwin Gentzler

This was the first book I have borrowed and read from Cardiff University library’s Translation section. As a Translation student focussing on the Spanish language, I felt that this book would offer plenty of interest to me, considering that the

September 30, 2014 wezg

Review: Translation and Identity in the Americas – by Edwin Gentzler

September 3, 2014 wezg

Review: Lost In Translation: Misadventures In English Abroad – by Charlie Croker

I thought I’d try this book out to see some of the problems translators face. The book is a humorous collection of real-life examples of when translators (translating into English) have made embarrassing mistakes… Translation agency’s advertisement in the Moscow

December 3, 2013 wezg

Review: The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation – by Mark Kurlansky

I live in Wales and there are similar issues here as in the Basque country – We have a certain regional autonomy after devolution, there is a strong national feeling and independence movement, it is an industrial heartland and there

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