Tag: travel
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Forty Years Out
On leaving in 1985, the revolving door, and the friendships that survive it. There is a kind of party I have been to more times than I can count. Paper plates, a cake from the good bakery, somebody’s husband in charge of the music. The guest of honor is leaving. Back to Washington, Manchester, or…
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Sidmouth: A Place Of Seasons, Space, And Subtle Change
There is something quietly powerful about living in a place that changes so completely with the seasons. It is not dramatic all at once, but in a way that unfolds slowly, almost without you noticing, until you are already in it. Sidmouth is one of those places. It is set along the Devon coastline, and…
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The Sea Is Always Impossibly Blue
On Greece, the influencer economy, and the quiet violence of the ‘undiscovered’. There is a taverna on Corfu — or there was; I can’t be sure it still exists — where the paper tablecloths were weighted down with a single candle in a Nescafé jar. The owner’s mother brought food without asking what you wanted.…