![]() "When the government fell, people were so excited they smashed all the windows," I was told. Of the great number rattling around in my mind, I think I'd nominate Albania, circa 1994, where I arrived on a ferry from Bari, Italy, to find a barely recognisable country people pleading for money or food, broken roads, sinister meals and broken windows. Q: What’s the most bizarre place you’ve been? ![]() They await a new conqueror, unfortunately. Many parts of Africa have become forgotten, or overlooked. Many of these places are still so dangerous that no-one visits. ![]() Still its emptiness and its isolation: the wild spaces, the great isolation in places like the Congo. What's one of your favourite qualities about Africa? Q: In Figures in a Landscape , memorable Africa essays include Malawi, Zimbabwe and Graham Greene's relationship with the continent. After 100 hours in Tibet, I knew it was time to leave.Anthony Bourdain on food, travel and politics.And those of us who are writers observing these changes always have something new to write about. Africa has changed, and so have I, and so has the world, but in a way that is how we live our lives, charting our progress. I suppose leaving home in late 1963 to travel to Africa to teach, and finding in Nyasaland (later Malawi) everything I hoped for: good people who became friends, a new language to learn, a lovely landscape, a liberating sense of solitude and a great deal to discover. ![]() Q: What's the trip that made you fall in love with the world? ![]()
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