I remain impressed by the breadth of your reading and the other research evident for the backgrounding of your search for MD. And who, having travelled in Asia - or elsewhere for that matter - hasn’t come across the shifty guide intent on directing you to ‘this most reputable’ establishment that just happens to be owned by a close relative, or from whom he is receiving a modest commission?
Thanks Richard, oh yes, Mr Thom won us over in the end. After all, like all the others, he was just trying to scrape a living together. The tourist/ local service provider is always a complicated relationship full of post colonial overtones. I go into this more near the end of the book ...
Oh, good. I love reading in bed too! Just near the end of Aphrodite's Breath by Susan Johson. Another travel memoir ... where she takes her 85 year old mother to live with her on the Greek Island of Kythera. Her mother is not too impressed by island life, really like it.
I remain impressed by the breadth of your reading and the other research evident for the backgrounding of your search for MD. And who, having travelled in Asia - or elsewhere for that matter - hasn’t come across the shifty guide intent on directing you to ‘this most reputable’ establishment that just happens to be owned by a close relative, or from whom he is receiving a modest commission?
Thanks Richard, oh yes, Mr Thom won us over in the end. After all, like all the others, he was just trying to scrape a living together. The tourist/ local service provider is always a complicated relationship full of post colonial overtones. I go into this more near the end of the book ...
I continue to enjoy your travel writing Jan from the comfort of my bed.
Thanks Maureen, hope that doesn't mean you are feeling unwell!
Haha .. just comfortable
Oh, good. I love reading in bed too! Just near the end of Aphrodite's Breath by Susan Johson. Another travel memoir ... where she takes her 85 year old mother to live with her on the Greek Island of Kythera. Her mother is not too impressed by island life, really like it.