The Last Dinners of Canada Give me India, give me Tahiti, give me Kenya or Chile. Give me Belgrade or Vientiane, Antananarivo or Lima. Give me Zanzibar, Bora Bora, Timbuktu. I can…
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Hanoi, Vietnam On this night, we ate snake meat and drank snake blood. We stopped traffic to buy balloons. We drank too much bia hoi and hitched a ride on a treacherous…
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Valletta, Malta My mother and I have been travelling together for many years. We started in Canada, to Prince Edward Island and road trips around the East Coast; soon we were off…
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Lagos, Portugal I was living in Edinburgh and dreaming of the sun, dreaming of sand in my shoes and the taste of the sea’s salt on my lips. After a week in…
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Osaka, Japan There are many things I will miss about Osaka when I leave in September. I never thought I’d say this, but live sumo will rank high on that list. A…
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Torcello, Italy I spent one summer day in Torcello a few years ago, having taken a ferry there from Burano. The island was deserted and decaying, full of relics of its former…