The Cilice of Education
In this week’s Camino a Ítaca we return to the trail of education and the challenges the kids face here in Extremadura, Spain. A place where ‘no pain, no gain’…
Jailing Songbirds
…it. Cities are burning at night in Spain for the words of an artist. An artist who has been sent to prison for praising terrorists and inciting violence, messages that…
Bares, qué lugares
Empty streets with closed bars, Caceres, Spain The Camino a Ítaca has been circling for weeks now, waiting for the city’s plague status to be lifted. Cities and towns across…
Groundhog Day
…and love them dearly. This week’s Camino a Ítaca looks back and hopefully is wrong about the way forward. You can click over and read the original version here in…
Christmas Tales
…pair of unaccompanied camels plodded along the shore as the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Aden rolled out towards Somalia and the horn of Africa 300kms away across the…
The True Doctrine
…of mud. The end may be near, but end well it won’t. This week’s Camino a Ítaca looks at the fall of the Great Cheeto and steaming pile of excrement…
Pastel a-la Celaá
Crucifixes in classrooms Next stop on the Camino a Ítaca is a look at how you can indeed have your cake and eat it too…as long as you ‘believe’. You…
Area 51
The deserts of Nevada This week’s Camino a Ítaca stretches back 20 years and rides the highways that line the deserts of Nevada. Wondering what went wrong and why…
One of Us
…women dressed as birds? Something about as much ‘ours’ as Ralph Lauren, ironed Levis and made-in-China flags. The next time lo nuestro comes up, take a minute to reflect on…
Bring on the Buddha
…left and across a muddy field, there it was. A 400 tonne statue, perched on a man-made mound and standing in a familiar pose, arms outstretched as if to embrace…