The first time I went to Berlin was August 1989 and the Wall was still up. I remember changing 25 DM at a rate 1:1, crossing into East Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie, spending one complete day in the East, eating lunch, dinner, paying entrance for museums, spending money on transport and still being left with […]
Extra section cut from Rainbow Diary
I recently saw the Bang Bang Club , an absolutely fantastic movie based on the life of four photographers during South Africa’s Civil War in the early 1990s. I’d read the book before I wrote Rainbow Diary but for editorial reasons the relevant sections were cut. So here they are restored. Note – if you […]
Why is Coffee so Expensive in Greece?
I was going to write about tax evasion, but a combative reader raised some valid points in a comment in the previous article of which one – that of productivity – deserves a post of its own. I’m glad that I can talk about this, because I can also answer a question many tourists keep […]