Empty Promises, Empty Shelves
…abyss of a #me-me, all for me world. Click over to the original piece published in el HOY or read the English version below. (PDF en castellano abajo) The recent…
Jailing Songbirds
…the originally published piece here in Spanish or the English below. (version en castellano en PDF tambien abajo) Rap just never did it for me. The ethereal sound of Johnny…
Battuta’s Least Known Journey
…most. And within this obscurity lies his least known sojourn, his jihad to the Iberian peninsula in today’s Spain. Follow his footsteps in a piece published in Dubai’s Khaleej Times….
Laugh to Keep from Crying
…many reasons. Click over to read the originally published version in Spanish or the piece’s beginnings in English below. I first heard it echo around the plaza del Socorro. It…
Teachers at a Crossroads
With the arrival of the plague, things have become clearer. An opinion piece on the current state of education during the current state of emergency in el HOY. The extended English…
Caceres with an Irish Lilt
…seem to cheer things up. It’s been awhile since I’ve been to the greenest of places, but an Irish newspaper, The Irish World, has just published a new travel piece…
We Appreciate your Predicament, Mr. Bond
…Click over to read the originally published piece in Spanish in the HOY or read the English translation below. This was also picked up in SUR in English. (PDF en…
The Foreign Menace: Now Available in the Hotel Lobby
…a surreal carnival of nationalism, folklore, fear, and hairspray. What followed was less bureaucracy and more Raul Duke in Cáceres. Read the piece in my Camino a Ítaca in the…
Interviews in the Spanish Press about the new Book
Stories Left in Stone, Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain This weekend the regional and local press both published interviews with me (in Spanish) about my new book, Stories…
España Profunda (with a bit of Portugal thrown in)
The good people over at Trazzler have given me even more reason to practice what I preach and travel deeper rather than further. I’ve been assigned a 10 piece series,…