Personas No Gratas
…away and collapse like the abandoned XII century Almohad tower that slowly disintegrates in the Adarve del Cristo? The fact that families have not completely abandoned the old town in…
¿Qué Calor?
It’s getting warm along the Camino a Ítaca. Successive heatwaves have already struck here in Spain and it’s not even July yet. Click over to read the originally published piece…
Inflation
…translation below. (PDF abajo) After living and working on four continents, my social media feeds can at times seem like a BBC world weather report. Friends living in Australia and…
Anachronisms
…read the English version below. What do such diverse countries as Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Great Britain, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands,…
Snake Charmers
In this week’s Camino a Ítaca, a spider bite turns into a near mortal experience in a barbaric country. The populist No-Tax brigades are once again singing their siren songs from…
Sacamantecas…Here Comes the Bogeyman!
The specter of something dark and frightening runs through this week’s Camino a Ítaca. Progressive politicians afraid of their own shadow look on with terror as real-life Bogeymen and women…
How do you Say your Surname?
This week’s Camino a Ítaca looks back to my childhood and then turns to the deadly present. A look at War. Click over to read the originally published version in…
The Great Silence
In this week’s Camino a Ítaca there is silence. A great silence that seems to have been purchased at an extreme and dangerous cost. If the Emperor isn’t wearing any…
When Woke Went Weird
…take the risk along the defile, perhaps wanting to catch a better glimpse of the belltower of Santa Maria or perhaps take a selfie before the irregular Arco de la…
A Confused Europe
In this week’s Camino a Ítaca, travel returns. But it’s a return like no other…a dystopian world of conflicting messages that alarm and confuse the traveler, mostly for no reason….