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Category: travel
Scotland – haste me back
I’d visited Glasgow as a tourist in 2009.
But this time – though I’ve been here close to 2 weeks for the World Gymnastics Championships – I couldn’t make time to do much sightseeing. 😦
Click PLAY or watch a New York Times tourist highlight clip on YouTube.
related – tripadvisor highlights
I did get a few photos, most taken on my phone during morning runs.
If I’m not Scottish, I’m CRAP
Haste me back.
I depart Glasgow today. For sunnier climes. 🙂
Scottish racist
… Britain, the U.S., Canada and Australia more tolerant than anywhere else. …
But if you walk alongside the Clyde River in Glasgow you’ll likely see a Gypsy lady with a disposable cup siting on one pedestrian bridge. She sits quietly.
There must be enough regular pedestrian traffic to bring in some money each day. She’s there at least 10hrs / day.
I was passing when a young Scottish guy diverted to give her some grief. He then wanted to bend my ear.
“Scum taking the jobs of the white man.”
She was as white as he. Clearly didn’t have a job.
Most of the rest of the rant was unintelligible. He was angry. She a convenient target. Perhaps he shouts at her every day on the way to work.
Unhappy. Fearful. This is the kind of voter Donald Trump appealed to when he said:
They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
Gypsy beggars are common in Europe.
I don’t like begging. But this woman on this bridge is no problem.
I don’t like illegal immigration. I’d rather spend the tax money to resettle illegal immigrants. Or – if they decline being returned to their homeland – to deliver them to a safe refugee camp.
We should spend even more tax dollars improving the systems of how illegal immigrants are processed. It’s the right thing to do.
Note: Most of the Romani people (Gypsies) in Europe are not illegal immigrants.
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In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
Nine Lives: in Search of the Sacred in Modern India is a 2009 travel book by William Dalrymple. …
… the lives of nine Indians, a Buddhist monk, a Jain nun, a lady from a middle-class family in Calcutta, a prison warden from Kerala, an illiterate goat herd fromRajasthan, and a devadasi among others, as seen during his Indian travels. The book explores the lives of nine such people, each of whom represent a different religious path in nine chapters. …
The book was published by Bloomsbury to great acclaim, The Observer remarking that it “ranks with the very finest travel writing”. …
Pico Iyer, in TIME Magazine, praises the “powerful restraint and clarity” the book brings to “precisely the two subjects — India and faith — that cause most observers to fly off into cosmic vagueness or spleen. The result is a deeply respectful and sympathetic portrait.” …
It is extremely well written. An astonishing look at how normal people go to extremes of religious practice. The first story is of nuns who starve themselves to death as ritual.
running Clyde bridges
A year ago I was jogging the river in Nanning, China. The World Gymnastics Championships.
This year it’s the Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
Andalusia tourist highlights
Like pretty much every one of the millions of tourists who visit each year, I did love visiting Andalusia.
I couldn’t live here, however. Too many smokers. Too few toilets.
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visiting Málaga, Spain
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Rick McCharles 