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The Halloween Puja

I’m going to be a boxer. I walk to town and ask my tailor to make me a baby blue bathrobe with a hood. This requires a fair amount of pantomiming and gesturing. Then I ask him to make me a pair of red boxing gloves. “Boxing gloves?” asks Rajesh. He sends a boy out…

ByAlex TzelnicJuly 27, 2020

Mexico Story

My Moment with a Mexican Moses

For the first time on this trip, the cocaine looks unappealing. “I think I’m over it. I’ll just drink.” My mood is low -- mind and heart somewhere else, with someone else -- and in this brief moment, not even the exotic evening charms of Isla Mujeres can hold me here. I let my mind…

ByClaire Leonard-DyerNovember 28, 2019

Yarns

The Fiestas of San Fermin

The Running of the Bulls is what put the sleepy Spanish town of Pamplona on the map, but this pub dare gone way too far is merely the pointy end of a larger fiesta held there annually. Ernest Hemingway, Pamplona’s favourite backpacker, wrote of San Fermín in ‘The Sun Also Rises’. He said that by…

ByLuke McConagheyJuly 5, 2018

Yarns

A Gringo Goes to Salvador’s Carnival

When you hear 'Ziriguidum', you’re required to put both hands on your knees and bend down like you’re addressing an imaginary, ground-borne squirrel. Once you’re in that position – knees bent 45 north, waist 45 south – you extend your right arm to full, then the fingers on your right hand totally, as if hand-gesturing to…

ByGravyJune 24, 2018