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Authenticity Is Not a Product
Thirteen years, one mosque, and the one thing the travel industry cannot sell you Our guide, Mohammed, a confident young Libyan, who has been spraying facts and opinions with the certainty of youth since our tour began, marches us out onto the lush and ornate carpet of the mosque’s main prayer hall. He invites…
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What Kazimierz Remembers.
The Old Jewish Quarter, Kraków It’s early Sunday morning as I peer down into Plac Wolnica. Overhead grey skies are cracking apart and promising a fine day. A school group huddles in one corner taking pictures of the exterior of the Ethnographic Museum with their phones. Middle-aged couples wearing precautionary rain jackets and backpacks…
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Badly Drawn Postcards and the Mexican One That Didn’t Arrive.
Many industries are romanticised by those on the outside looking in and the travel industry is an exemplar of this. It’s a wildly competitive industry where the grit more than outweighs the glamour. Don’t mistake me, it’s an industry I love deeply, but I suspect my friends’ perception of my former role within it…
