I’M FROM TORONTO, but for two years I lived on an island in the Caribbean. There, the locals say that from any point on the island you’re never more than 14km away from the sea. The ocean, of course, becomes a big part of the lifestyle; people make their living from fishing, while surfing, diving,…
WHAT is this word, ‘garburator’? How can I ever learn another language when I can barely master my own? See more here.
THIS IS an elite of crew of Mallakhamb gymnasts in India. The practice originated as a method of training for wrestlers: malla means ‘wrestler’ or ‘man of strength’ and khamb means pole (in Marathi). They look superhuman to me. See more here.
TO SOME, slow travel means time. It means spending weeks or months in a place to really understand it. For me, slow travel is a frame of mind. In July, I joined my father for a week during his truck hauls to the US. I really wanted to go to Chicago, and luckily he was…
Illustrations: Aya Padrón A RECENT ROAD TRIP with my truck driver dad took me from Ontario, Canada, to Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York, Indiana, and back over six days. I got to see a lot of small-town USA, but sitting through long stretches of highway left me feeling quite stiff. I started to think how I…
“C’EST PAS ÉVIDENT,” the locals and expats told me when I asked how to get more involved in local life: It’s not obvious, self-evident, or straightforward. It took me two trips to Martinique, one of the French overseas departments in the Caribbean, to figure out that simply being in a place didn’t necessarily mean that…
Cordial Shortly after All Saint’s Day in November, there is a seasonal abundance of oranges and mandarins on the island. For this reason Shrubb, an orange liqueur, is Martinique’s traditional Christmas beverage. You can buy a commercial bottle from any grocery store, but all the best ones are homemade. Macerate peels of oranges, mandarins, and…
