The human psyche? Nice article Marco, as usual. Once again you've got me thinking. I never heard of chemtrails before, but I'll be looking much closer in future... As you say, people prefer to ignore unpleasant reality if they can. Why the human psyche should be wired up like this is a good question. Most likely the explanation is evolutionary - if cavemen had really thought about the dangers facing them they'd have been too terrified to leave the cave. Denial was the only way to get them out (and subsequently eaten by terradactyls, of course) lol
Dirty Secret Most people know about white women engaging in sex tourism in the Caribbean and in parts of Africa etc (black men seem to be the favourite of Western, female sex tourists). The only thing that surprises me is that they get off with it with so little comment or stigman being attached.
God only knows how many words have been written demonising Western male sex tourists (the usual target would be Pattaya) but if anything Western female sex tourists are actually treated sympathetically in popular culture (can't recall the name of the recent film about French, white, female sex tourists in 1970's Haiti). Do you think it is anything to do with white, middle class females being unwilling to expend too much vitriol on condemning the actions of other white, middle class females? Much easier to go back to talking about male, tatooed, working class, Western sex tourists instead I suppose. Appallingly, blatant double standards apply when it comes to discussing white women flying off to have sex with black men in the Caribbean and all the other ususal places
Chatwin on LP I've got this interesting private comment via mail from someone who prefers to remain anonymous. Here it is:
"I read somewhere once that Bruce Chatwin blamed The Lonely Planet and in particular its founder (who incidentally drives a Ferrari) for creating the Taliban in Afghanistan.
His argument was along the lines of tourist hippy types filling the locals heads with Socialism, Che Gauevara, and all that jazz; next stop the Commies coup, the soviets rolled in, then Rambo kicked em out and the reast is history...or something like that..."
Eyewitness Beeing a LP user myself for many years, I found that LP's guide for Japan (going there in october) was not good enough and bought Eyewitness for the first time. It's good, small pics and just basic facts. Sweet :)
Re: family Well, my english can be sometimes fallacious, yet I would have never thought that by reading this story someone might have thought that I actually am Clemente Mastella!!!
If I was, this piece of rant would have been simple (crooked) geniality!
Marco
family hey Clemente Mastella i read this article i can hardly understand what it alls means but i would like to know what In the land of the Mastella the one Eyed Man Is King!
I hope you will let me know what your goal on the story is or if its nonfiction or fiction.
Anyways let me know if you have recieved this email
P.S.
Clemente i hope you would like to become closer relatives pretty much your the one that i found first
in family circle And i want to love you and your wonderful wife and if i recieve email from you i will let you know how we are related as im doing a family tree online i hope you have recieved my request from there.I know your busy
Sincerly,
M.Mastella
Males only Males only allowed on Mt Athos to honour our most pure and holy mother the Virgin Mary who lived much of her life there. We honour her memory with this tradition. There have been exceptions to the tradition. During the second world war some Jewish women were taken in for their protection.
the new forster definitely, a new Passage to India: an abstract resuming the landscapes , beauties,but most of all the mistery of the great india(Shri Lanka)(the person who gets into the climbing locomotive ) wonderfully described by the future e.m. forster !!!!!
The Locomotive As one train buff to another: I'm jealous!! But thanks for the description - it was just like being there (almost!). Brightened my day..
to Lieke Well, Senegal ranks 86th in the same chart, so we're not not there yet, but our men are apparently working hard to reach such "wuthering heights"!
We've been talking al lot about politics in Italy lately and totally agree with you. Berlusconi is worse than many politicians in so called 'banana republics'. And for press freedom, I think even in Senegal (where I was supposed to write my thesis about it, with emphasis on was supposed ...) the situation was better.
Ah ecco dove ti eri cacciato!!! Bene, bene sono contento di saperti ad Istanbul, sei li per fare cosa (se e' lecito sapere???)
Riguardo al tuo post direi che se la tristezza sociale e morale fosse ricchezza l'Italia sarebbe senza dubbio il Paese piu' opulento di tutto il mondo occidentalizzato!!!
Un grande abbraccio ed un mega "in bocca al lup" per tutto!!!
Hey man, i know what you mean...our head of the senate is an ex president famous for having ruining the country's coin so bad we had an hiperinflation, for his corruption and for making the state in which he was born into a personal fiefdom
we elected an ex president that was impeached for our senator
And don't even get me started about the jesus freaks and latin american fascists that "represent" us
I guess brazilian and italian politics are not that different...
curios to know more Thank you to Marco for a very interesting post. Also I see that the author of Romance on the Road has visited and made a comment. I was just reading reviews of her book online, before seeing this post. I just want to say that there are some women out here who would love to do some sex/romance tourism, but don't have access to much useful information. Men can find plenty of guides and forums on the web. Women tend to keep this a secret. It's about time they start sharing more of their stories.
small places Hola Companero, it seems a very well laid-back scenario in there.
I found a message in this blog:
when you start to surrender, Magic appears!
Looks like another planet.
cheers
Sun and Daylight Hola! Me gusta la citation de Holly et Benj! voila'! et merci aussi pour citants Totti, champion du monde!!!!:P
Monsieur Olivier et votre ancien ami?
Voyage fait de vous trouver des gens speciaux!
(as extraordinary experiences)
un abrazo companero
To Jabe hey, hey... deep down I love that stuff too, that's why I allow myself to make fun of it; I'd never do it with something I really despise (i.e. hip hop).
Marco
The chubby, long-haired little boy of the picture is me back in the '70s. Today I look a bit different, but deep down I kept the same level of suspicious curiosity. I Travel in no hurry and this blog is the instrument to tell my story. I'm not english mother tongue, so please be indulgent with any grammatical/structural awkwardness you might stumble upon.
ITALIANO
Ecco il link alla versione italiana del mio blog: Marcoelitaliano... full info
eric crumpton
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want more information on romance tourism
love to hear this information.. but would love more details.