As I slogged through the snow and slid my way across the icy sidewalk last winter, I vowed I would escape the cold next year. But where to go?
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Cruise the Ayerawady in Myanmar
The sun sets over 2000 stupas in Bagan
The sound of a giant egg beater makes me look up from my book. And it looks like that’s exactly what is attached to the little boat dashing past on the busy Ayerawady River. Our vessel, the Amapura, an elegantly appointed cruise boat, attracts enthusiastic waves from every passing craft. Continue reading
The People of Myanmar (Burma)
The relentless sun shimmering on gold temples, the inevitable dust and sand at the end of the dry season, the difficulty of coping in a language so foreign to me that even after a week, I can’t easily remember simple phrases – these are the impressions I have taken away from Myanmar. Continue reading
Tucson’s Heirloom Farmers Market
To Market, To Market – Tel Aviv
Markets have always been the heart and soul of any community. If you want to understand the culture of a city, visit the market. In Tel Aviv, three very different markets tell me a great deal about the little communities that surround them.
Shlomo is a happy man. He serves me a strong cup of his own roasted coffee. His grandfather, a Yemenite immigrant in the early 1900s, started this little roastery in Carmel Market. But Shlomo is likely to be the last of his family to roast and sell coffee.
There are many like him, in markets around the world. The younger generation, he tells us, isn’t interested in working in a market. Curiously, despite this attitude, markets are making a huge comeback and more and more people are turning to local farmers and producers. It’s not surprising. Markets have always been the heart and soul of any community. If you want to understand the culture of a city, visit the market.
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