… from the shadowlands M OSCOW | Despite traveling to Russia every six weeks for more than a decade, the 43-year-old couldn’t speak anything but English. His accent was hard, his jokes long and when he tilted his chair back at a café in Moscow we all knew we...
… second in a series on mass tourism H erding. It’s the only word for the gangs of mute tourists meandering around in red hats, or sporting yellow badges, or chasing blue flags held aloft by multilingual guides wearing headsets connected to portable speakers....
… the problem S omething is wrong with tourism. There are too many people trying to visit too few attractions. Some of the most beautiful places on the planet, destinations that represent the pinnacle of human achievement and thought, have been turned into...
From the 2010 archives: Like modern gypsies we wandered Europe looking for a way home. When the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in Iceland the ash shut airspace especially across the Atlantic. Bramwell Ryan was one of those stranded in Europe. His flight out of...
Still figuring out all the variables to make a compelling time lapse sequence. Here’s the latest attempt from the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg. More to come…
A young guy in his early 20s; bearded with a black grubby farm equipment hat. He had crutched out of the pub and was collapsing into a wheelchair. An attendant was holding the chair steady as he fell back, swinging his left leg onto the horizontal support. When he...
