Three Minutes of Fame in New York
Reality TV shows and flipping burgers in New York.
God Rides the Bus in Sudan
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 ...
Tea and Tear Gas in Turkey
In her column Slow Travel Stories, Claire Harris witnesses the police using tear gas on demonstrators in Taksim Square, Istanbul.
Toy Guns and Pocket Knives in Beirut
“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 ...
Forget Paris. When in Rome…
Slow Travel Stories: Claire Harris is stranded in Paris and Rome, and discovers that midnight busking comes with some risks.
The English Slaughters
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.
Dancing Barefoot Under the Montana Sky
“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 ...
Slow Boat to Timbuktu
“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 ...