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I wouldn t do these holidays if you paid me £10,000
Even with holidays curtailed, we can still be choosy about how we spend them. Our writer shares the travel experiences that leave him cold
25 May 2021 • 5:00am
Camping is only tolerable if it s not really camping
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Relatively recently, the Irish travel writer Dervla Murphy suggested that she would “pay £10,000 not to set foot on a cruise ship”. You can see why. She’s the sort of woman who treks through Ethiopia with a mule. She’d fit in badly behind a stack of waffles at the breakfast buffet or following a guide with a flag on a stick through Barcelona.
Black Dancers Celebrate Josephine Baker’s Legacy Essence 2 hrs ago
“Josephine Baker was a trendsetter and the trend, in my opinion, was Blackness,” award-winning ballet soloist Gabe Stone Sheyer said poignantly about the legacy of the renowned dancer 100 years after she made her debut in the Broadway musical Shuffle Along. “She had an amazing unfiltered approach to speaking, dressing, and performing without watering herself down.”
Born Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri, the American-bred French entertainer was a trailblazer in her own right and one of the most successful Black performers to have ever lived. At the age of 15 she ran away from home to join an African American theatre troupe after creating her own opportunities by dancing in the streets to collect money.