
Auctions Speak Louder than Words
Before the clock strikes seven, the sounds of goats bleating, auctioneers shouting and buyers haggling fill the air, as they have on Friday mornings in
Before the clock strikes seven, the sounds of goats bleating, auctioneers shouting and buyers haggling fill the air, as they have on Friday mornings in
“Can I ask you a question?” a young woman queried Karol, Gail and me in a shop we’d ducked into to get away from the
Conehead, Rove-Inn’s most remote (and perhaps most memorable) camp spot. On Rennell Sound, Haida Gwaii, the only point on the west coast of Graham Island
In Córdoba, “nadie escapa de la poesía” (nobody escapes from poetry) wrote Shmuel HaNagid, in the tenth century. Rills of water flow softly in a
Something unexpected happened on my birthday a few years ago. I met an ermitaño. In Spain. “A what?” you’re probably asking.
The world’s northernmost city. Latitude 69.6492° N. 400 kilometres above the Arctic Circle. Further north than any city in Russia, Alaska or Scandinavia. Home to
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