Travel
October 5, 2009
- I should have titled this "Writing Paradise for Less." If you're thinking about going with me to Auvillar, France, this May (17-24), don't delay in making a deposit. We'll keep the workshop small (under twelve), and several people have made commitments already. The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts is offering discounts for writers who enroll before February first, but ...
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October 2, 2009
- In those in-between days when I am not in Italy, I do all kinds of things to maintain my dolce vita lifestyle... drink vino, read about Italia, eat fabulous pasta with homemade sauce... and I garden. My husband and I have worked for years transforming what was once an empty backyard into an urban paradise. And our goal has always been to make it feel as Italian as possible down to our choice ...
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October 2, 2009
- The whole point of travel is to see Red Light districts around the world. That’s what I assume my German publisher C.H. Beck thinks. Or maybe that's what they think I'll like. Anyway, they keep sending me to Hamburg, which has one of the most famous naughty neighborhoods in the world.At the invitation of the extremely professional Harbour Front Literaturfestival and in the company of my Beck ...
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September 30, 2009
- My most memorable loo story is at Madame Tussaud’s. A Canadian woman accosted me after I came out of the facility with, “Are you Indian?”“Yes.”“Oh, I am surprised. I did not know Indians flushed…”“What?” I gasped as I stood near the wash basin.“I hear that Indians do it in the street.”“Who told you?”“My brother – he is a professor and has travelled to ...
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September 25, 2009
- I'd been on the move for a decade when I reviewed Pico Iyer’s Tropical Classical for the Far Eastern Economic Review, Asia’s pioneering newsweekly magazine closed by its owner Dow Jones this week.…first I’d escaped the radical provincialism of my hometown by shipping off to a ruggedly urbane college; traded suburban Philly rhythms for the pulse of Manhattan; sought relief from the ...
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September 22, 2009
- A brief search suggests that this site does not support an RSS feed from my blogs. Because I already write two blogs, until I have news that is specific to this site, I'll just ask that you visit the blogs I'm already writing. Waltzing Australia supports my book of the same name. It follows the journey recounted in the book, showing photos of many of the things I was seeing, along with ...
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September 17, 2009
- Want a fling? Visit Denmark. A three-minute long ad showed a young, blonde woman cradling a dark-skinned infant called August and saying he is the result of a brief tryst with a foreign tourist.There are several questions here:This was on Danish TV and apparently staged, so what prompted it? Is there a belief that people will throng to the country to have flings?Is there a problem with the child ...
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September 12, 2009
- My husband Kenneth and I recently celebrated our sixteenth anniversary. We flew to Seattle and spent four days exploring the city and doing what we do so well: eating great food. Kenneth started cooking when he was four years old, following his grandmother around the kitchen. He never uses the word "chef." He's the real thing, a cook.A few Sundays ago, we had friends over for a ...
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September 10, 2009
- Here's my latest post on the International Crime Authors Reality Check blog:I keep finding new reasons why I write my novels about the Palestinians. Usually these reasons have nothing to do with the Palestinians.Here’s the one that may be the deepest, the one I’ve known about for a while, but have only recently been able to face up to: it’s because I’m scared of home.Not so long ago, I ...
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September 8, 2009
- Have you been searching for the secret to youth?Adventure Travel Writer Linda Ballou Claims To Have Discovered The Answer!Join Us Thursday, September 10, 2009 9PM EST 6PM PSTonConversations with RenéeAnd Learn Her Secrets!http://www.blogtalkradio.com/YolandaRenee/2009/09/11/CONVERSATIONS-with-Rene Call in at (347) 215-9536 Linda Ballou is an adventure travel writer disguised as a Realtor. ...
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