On the eve of the summer paron, they are seriously concerned that the High-Speed Line will greatly shorten distances: From Paris they will be 2 Hour and Baiona 3 Hour and a Half. Fearsome: it's easier to go to Paris than to Maule or Garazi.

You reminded me recently in Victoire de Bordeaux how the coffee got into my throat when I was asked for EUR 2.20. Coffee. We were two. EUR 4.40. No special, no cut, a simple hollow coffee. And here the favor explained to me in a natural way: “Now Bordeaux is two hours from Paris.”

I suddenly asked him why he had to bear the prices there. He breathed. We left it in that, because I thought something had failed in the argument that apparently had to be very coherent and rational. At Mollat, it took me all the effort to go and spend money.

Yes, Bordeaux is already two hours from Paris and prices in Bordeaux may soon be applied to Bayonese: for which it is not clear, the cane leaves to EUR 4, turning coffee into beer. Spend half the salary of getting drunk.

The example of the train is interesting, as some of those who have analysed the subject have come to the conclusion that the changes, the good and the evils involved in the arrival of the train in the campaigns are a step forward. In our case, it led to the assimilation of our ways of life and cultures, since at the same time it accompanied other changes and represented the advance comparing it and equating it with the foreign colonizer, prioritizing their values, teaching what is of us. Larzabal, Erdozaintzi, Luku or Irigoien say nothing else.

Bordeaux is closer to us, to the Parisian people and to Paris, and aims to get us closer, influencing our way of life, prices, everything else and everything else. One more argument against the APR. When it comes to promoting mobility, we look for types of movement, those of tourists and those of the spirits of the provincials.

In fact, when referring to the train route, we are told of mobilisation and, above all, of “decentralisation”. It is a rhetorical issue. It has been two centuries since laws and dynamics are different, and they are aimed at them. When they are presented, they talk about the decentralization of institutional power, of resources, of which they are concerned, from Paris, and of their transfer to the provinces. In the way we are sold, we can think that it is for the benefit of the provinces, for the idea of delegating, that is, to decide or develop here. The powers are transferred to the periphery, the institutions and the trains, but not to use them, but to have an extension of what is in the center. In our case, the power, the culture, the way of life, the decisions, to make them reach our skies.

The decentralization from which one observes it assumes more centrality. Mobilities, more imobilisms. VAT increases turistification and acculturation. Decentralization, at the head of everything, is centralization, it is the observation of the center and the decentralization of the self, moving away from our own, forgetting what we are and where we are.

As a matter of urgency, before opening the elongated summer parentheses, I must mention an interesting initiative that may help to recast in us: The Antilletan Bizi Conference that the Popular University of the Basque Country will organize on 11 and 12 August in Baigorri. It will address issues such as identity, creolization, hybridization of cultures, coexistence, uniformization, colonization and (what is obviously so fashionable) “repentance”. Knowing more about social dynamics, we're always more focused on ourselves.