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A Reluctant Radical | Mark McCrum | South Africa, Gauteng, Johannesburg
Geraldine had been attempting to radicalize this man whose favourite occupation was lying in his big armchair with a copy of the Spectator and a large whisky
A Township Evening | Mark McCrum | South Africa, Gauteng, Mahwelereng
I rather threw them; the dark one gave me the African handshake, the blond opted for something rapid and European
Cook Islands | Mark McCrum | Cook Islands, Cook Islands, Rarotonga
Rarotonga is ten kilometres long and six wide. It takes thirty minutes to drive round completely (and that’s at the top island speed of 40 mph)
Country Fashions | Mark McCrum
On a journey through Ireland in 1997, I pitched up at this famous Kerry competition, where young beauties of Irish origin from around the world vie for the esteemed title of ‘Rose of Tralee’
Going Dutch in Beijing | Mark McCrum
An extract from a new book about global etiquette. The book covers greetings, gestures, toasts, meals, general customs and traditions, romance, dating, engagement, marriage, divorce, illness, death, funerals and religion
Helimustering in 'Effin Q | Mark McCrum
I’m not a terrifically keen flyer at the best of times, but the invitation to go ‘heli-mustering’, that is rounding up the cattle by helicopter, proved impossible to refuse
Poppy Day in the North | Mark McCrum | United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Bellaghy
Times were tense, the band leading the march was alleged to have been involved in a controversial demonstration outside a nearby Catholic chapel, and nobody quite knew what was going to happen
Rock and Roll Hotels | Mark McCrum
Touring with a rock and roll band these days - at least at the top level - is done in the grand style. The days of battered transit vans and dodgy digs are long gone.
Staying with Aboriginals | Mark McCrum | Australia, Northern Territories, Alice Springs
Trampled over and anthropologized till they’re blue in the face, most Aboriginals have little time for whites who want to know how ‘they really think and feel’
I’m three metres under the water in a swimming pool in Chiswick when I have my first serious doubts about the wisdom of this assignment. I’m encased in full Scuba gear
Unmugged in Rio | Mark McCrum | Brazil, Rio and the Southeast, Rio de Janeiro
Knife dangling, he handed back my notebook. Then the pen. 'No, no,' I said, 'keep the pen.' An elaborate pantomime of gestures followed. He wanted me to have the pen. I wasn’t going to argue with a man with a knife.
Waiting For Emily | Mark McCrum | Australia, Northern Territories, Alice Springs
Half a day’s drive outside Alice Springs, I had managed to secure an invite to stay with Bill Partridge, a station-owner who now made more money out of Aboriginal Art than he did out of cattle. He was lucky enough to have, living on an Aboriginal settlement adjacent to his land, the most famous Aboriginal painter of them all, Emily Kame Kngwarreye. I had been waiting for almost a week for her to turn up and start work on one of the famous ‘dot paintings’, and it had begun to look as if she might never show at all...
Why Go To Sydney? | Mark McCrum | Australia, New South Wales, Sydney
Because it’s still (just) a little slice of laid-back paradise. Sydney's focus is of course the famous harbour, on the subject of which even the most level-headed writers lapse into breathless cliché