Hope it didn't say do not enter!
Yesterday I was at “El Morrro”, which translates to to “the hill” in Spanish. It was one of the fortresses the Spainards bult to protect the island from incoming attackers. Obviously, something went wrong because now Puerto Rico is part of the United States.
Having just visited Spain, I could see the the similarities in architecture and construction. It was different to the ones I we saw. In Spain in that “El Morro” is part if a large wall that perimeters the whole northwest tip of old San Juan. It’s pretty impressive and I would recomend visiting El Morro if you ever are in the area.
Anyway, my original plan was to walk along the oustise perimeter of the fort. From the map, it looks like you can do the later but in reality it just stops at some point. There was this sign that I’m assuming said don’t enter but I could read anything! Maybe the battered and illegible condition of the sign *could* have been an inidication of what it used to say but I went ahead and disreguarded it.
It was there where I was reminded of one of the firat Brazilian Films I’ve seen. The film is called “Terra Estrangeira” and I believe it was directed by Walter Salles. There is a scene with this old ship that the two characters were reflecting upon. During the scene a song was playing in the background. In fact, it turned out being somewhat of a theme of the movie. The name of the song is called “Vapor Barato”. There are two versions of the song that I could find, one was by Gal Costa and Zeca Baleiro, and O Rappa did a reaggaish version.
Anyway, while I was in the “restricted” a ship much like the one in the movie sailed by. I know this will sound weird, but it was kinda a surreal moment.
