Travel Thursday: Port au Prince, 2010

In 2010 I visited Port au Prince, Haiti, with the Irish charity Haven. Branding for Denis O'Brien's Digicel towered over UN refugee camps, cluttered market stalls, and even coated roadside shacks (I had never before seen the developing country 'fashion' of having your house painted for free by an advertising company... I'm amazed it's never taken [...]

Travel Thursday: Amsterdam, August 2012

Amsterdam: August 2012 A warm Wednesday afternoon outside the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. A queue of kids from a Jewish school sat cross-legged and chorused hauntingly in Hebrew as dusk fell and Angelus bells bonged from a nearby steeple. We waited in the eerie half light for admittance to the attic where dreams lived and [...]

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