Winter 2007

Lost in translation

Travel has become more and more dangerous.

18 February 2009

Lin Sampson suggests you shrink your carbon footprint by staying at home.

A dog in the street nips me in the heel. That night at a dinner party, I say, “Oh, a dog bit me today.” The whole table goes silent. Five minutes later the British Consul is on the phone ordering a rabies drug to be flown in from Cairo. I am in Alexandria, Egypt. I am Off Home Turf.

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