The young men of Essaouira must strike a careful balance between these two things if they are to be successful in attracting Western women. The Essaouiris have learnt to be ...
“Not having the requisite funds for even the first semester, I do the only logical thing. I head down to the nearest jazz bar, drink a lot of Louisiana beer ...
Reality TV shows and flipping burgers in New York.
The truck veers suddenly to the left and screeches to a halt. The driver’s door opens and he emerges with a shotgun in one hand, hitching his robes up with ...
In her column Slow Travel Stories, Claire Harris witnesses the police using tear gas on demonstrators in Taksim Square, Istanbul.
“We have a joke in Shatila. The devil comes to take a man to hell. The man tells him, ‘I will be happy to go with you because anything must ...
Slow Travel Stories: Claire Harris is stranded in Paris and Rome, and discovers that midnight busking comes with some risks.
Claire Harris continues her Slow Travel column with a stint as a carer to an ageing English aristocrat with a penchant for whiskey and speeding disabled vans.
“If you folks aint got nothing to do this evening, you might wanna pull the chairs out onto the porch and sit watchin’ the cars go down the highway.” Claire ...
“Don’t look down the sides,” one of my fellow travellers says. Whatever you do, you do not wanna see what is underneath us,” Which naturally makes us rush to peel ...
