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We spent the morning in San Sebastion, the capital of the Spanish island La Gomera. Most things were closed, as this was January 6th, epiphany, Spanish Christmas Day. We knew that already, but didn´t think it mattered much as we are no shoppers anyway. What we wanted to do was to seek out tracks of Christopher Colombus, who had his last stop on this island before he sailed out to reach the end of pancake Earth.
I have followed in Columbuses footsteps before. Many years ago a Venetian gondola took us past the house where he was born, in 1998 I was in Santo Domingo on the island Hispanola, visiting the first European houses which were built there after Columbus and his men arrived. But now we were to see where he set out from the old world, into a crazy adventure, the edge of the pancake.
The church where he said his prayers must been a good start, I thought. The only problem is that even though one wall should be left from the time of the explorer, the rest of the church is new and his prayers must have gone straight to heaven, at least we found no tracks of them.
"Let us walk up to this street´s #56", Terje said. "My guidebook writes that one of the few truths thay know about Columbus is that he lived here." "Well, my guidebook says that some people say that, but it is not a truth" I told him back. "And look, there is #20, the house with the well, the well Columbus and his man used to fill up the water tank, now called the well of the water who baptised America" The house was closed and we looked at each other: "Baptisted America? Hasn´t the Hispanic world heard of Laiv Erikson? And what about the people who already inhabited the American continent?
In the park we sat down near Torre del Conde, and both our guidebooks agreed that it was here Christopher had an adventure with the most powerful woman on the island.
"Oh, let history be history" Terje suddenly said. "Look at that red door. I want a picture of you in front of it. I know it will be a perfect photo and for sure it will be a part og my, of our history"
