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Monthly Archives: July 2016

Plunder on the Spanish Main

Family on a boat next to a freighter

Feeling like a pirate leaving Cartagena not with a ship full of stolen Spanish plunder, but with a treasure of stories of the people working to save a small piece of of threatened reef.

Posted byDavidJuly 30, 2016Posted inFilms, TravelTags:Cartagena, Colombia, coral reefs, documentaryLeave a comment on Plunder on the Spanish Main

What to read this summer: recommendations from writers who teach

A pair of fiction writers and teachers offer their summer reading picks.

Posted byDavidJuly 13, 2016Posted inFiction and Books, Tips, TravelTags:books, Werner Herzog, writingLeave a comment on What to read this summer: recommendations from writers who teach

Zester Daily – Burgundians dig deep to face climate change

I returned to Burgundy for the first time since writing my novel Vintage.

Posted byDavidJuly 11, 2016Posted inFiction and Books, Food and wine, TravelTags:Burgundy, climate change, FranceLeave a comment on Zester Daily – Burgundians dig deep to face climate change
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