week 192

Mon: Zoobiquity, connecting human and animal health, opens a new insight into why certain diseases are rare in some species while prevalent in the majority.

Tue: It is wise to leave the rat race for an off-the-grid location, like Rum isle, at the right life juncture; but, it is wiser to rectify such decision when the situation becomes untenable with age and move to the Highlands.

Wed: A few remnants of 19th century British financed railways in Uruguay show the disconnect between the investors mind in London and the reality of the pampas.

Thu: Female villagers around Boulemane, in the Moroccan Fez region, have the courage to start a cooperative selling hand-made carpets to achieve financial independence from the patriarchs.

Fri: The Bajo people of south Sulawesi, nomads of the sea wandering around the coast to live out of what shallow bays at low tide provide, make a 20 meter deep 5 minute long dive look so natural…

week 191

Tue: Fair Isle, at the same latitude as Oslo and with a population below 100, becomes a tough retreat for a New York divorcee.

Wed: Accessible via the Chilean “Ruta Austral”, lake General Carrera is a natural wonder althoug with a very temperamental weather.

Thu: Thomas Sankara 80’s vision for Burkina Faso to “walk up rigt” turned out to be victim to the betrayal by a government insider funded by the usual suspects.

Fri: Saving to afford a new traditional wooden fishing canoe is the key for a humble, yet fulfilling, life by the people of Kerala’s backwaters.

week 190

Mon: Female surfers have an uphill time convincing fellow bangladeshis of the appropriateness of their chosen sport.

Tue: Rathlin island, a tiny spot on northern Ireland, becomes a refuge for a burned out human resources executive searching for a meaningful activity.

Wed: Santa Rosa national park in western Costa Rica is a prime example of a dry tropical forest so sensitive to the vagaries of the rainy season length.

Thu: Funerary practices in Madagascar, where Africa meets Asia, include the exhumation and reburial of ancestors as a mean for the new generation to get acquainted with their roots.

week 189

Tue: “FairAfric”, a German-Ghanaian chocolate enterprise aiming at sustainable cacao growth practices and fair pricing, has a chance at success with conscientious european consumers.

Wed: The outskirt of a remote hamlet in the irish Galway region shelters an individual living from the soil with (almost) no money spent, even though it means going on a very lean diet during the winter months.

Thu: Rio Grande do Sul, with its Porto Alegre capital on the shore of huge Lagoa dos Patos, is a true gaucho region with more resemblances to its southern neighbor rather than to the rest of the country.

Fri: The Dampier peninsula, in western Australia, hosts Bardi Jawi aboriginals clinching at their ancestral ways of fishing with a hopeful eye towards the education of the next generation in their traditional costumes.