Travel
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On Trail: Teutonic Design
I remember one trail with German, Swiss and Austrian exchange students: they were all young adults…
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On Trail: Leave only Footprints, Take only Memories
This picture shows the Wilderness Leadership School camp on Driefontein in the Pilanesberg. The big rock…
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On Trail: Spring in Pilanesberg
I took a trail into Pilanesberg on 24 September 1984. It must have been varsity holidays…
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Gl’Uomini Degli Dei – The People of the Gods 4 July 2011
Last year we did an amazing walk above the Amalfi coast, Il Sentiero Degli Dei, “The…
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Conversations about Work and Corners
The Greeks use the word work to mean labour as well as to mean trying to…
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Conversations: Five Things My Father Taught Me
My father did not actively teach, but reinforced ideas. This is what I learnt from him:…
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Conversations about Photo Albums
Who would have thought in those days of Polaroids and slides, when a film roll came…
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The Lost Immigrants 6 September 2002
Edinburgh’s late summer was beautiful. The festival was over and a lazy peace enveloped the city.…
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Conversations about Paraskevidekatriaphobia
My father was superstitious and spiritual. Sometimes the two became blurred and no logic or belief…
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Conversations about Syntagma Square
I was reading a book about a garden in Helekion outside Athens and the horticultural intern…
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