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People of the year 2009Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Donkey trekking with Itinerance in Mercantour National Park, France
I once had an editor who told me that I shouldn’t write about people in travel. “Holidaymakers only want to know about the place, not the people. They’re irrelevant to travel articles”, he told me. However, writing about beaches and budget airlines, is not really my bag, as regular readers will know by now. People who create incredible [...] Shopping stropSaturday, November 28th, 2009
Moroccan beads. Photo: Catherine Mack At the risk of biting the hand that feeds me, Go’s ‘Shop through the drop’ article (14.11.09) about the ‘great’ return of Irish women to the New York shopping trip, in search of a credit crunch bargain, took me on a nostalgia trip. I did exactly that in my youth, which was [...] Don’t be a stranger with TripbodSunday, September 20th, 2009
Times have changed, however, and as my travels take me further afield I, like many others, use the [...] |
I headed to Paris for a three year stint in the early eighties, knowing noone and feeling very much the stranger in town. Someone recommended that I post an ad for digs at The American church there, as that is where most English-speaking expats congregated to exchange information. It worked - I found a flat, some cool flatmates, a bike, a futon, and a few party invites to boot. Social rather than spiritual guidance, it has to be said.