THE TRUCK, belching black diesel smoke, slithers and slides as it struggles up the steep incline of the wet road. It is not much of a road, although it used to be once, sure. Then the weather and the jungle got at it, patiently aiming to outlast it. Now this stretch is a collection ofContinue reading “Panama: Canal Zone”
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Zanzibar: Island Life
“We have always been middlemen – between the land and the sea, the producers and the buyers, the African and the Arabian,” says historian Professor Abdul Sheriff. “That is not a concern; it is our strength.”
Morocco: Imperial Cities
“If I didn’t try to sell a carpet to everyone who says they do not want one, I would never sell a carpet,” as one salesman says.
Dublin: Irish Pubs
“I love the view from the Dublin Mountains. Table Mountain, eat your heart out. The Bay of Naples, eat your heart out.”
Botswana: Okavanga Delta
We run aground in narrow channels, then skirt the edges of deep ponds, keeping a wary eye out as a pod of hippos bellow their anger at us.
Malta: Knights’ Treasure
“Here in Malta we are at the center of the Mediterranean, with three important harbors, and whoever controlled Malta controlled the central Mediterranean.”
Amsterdam: Canal Ring
“WE HAVE a saying in Dutch: ‘In de aap gelogeerd’ or ‘You slept in the monkey house’ – which means you’re in trouble, having a bit of bad luck. That comes from here.” I’m in the In’t Aepjen (In the Monkey) pub, one of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam and one of only two still withContinue reading “Amsterdam: Canal Ring”
Vancouver: East West
“There is not that pressure to be Canadian in the same way that Americans have to be American.”
Guatemala: Friendly Faces
“A lot of people who visit go home, sell everything and move here to stay.”
Galapagos: Enchanted Islands
“Tourism is part of the Master Plan; it has just got to be in a controlled way.”
Inherit The Earth 