Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
My interview with world musician Youssou N’Dour at his home in Dakar, Senegal in May 2007. You have just come back from New York – what were you doing there? “I was invited by Time magazine. Every year they nominate the 100 most influential persons around the world, sometimes artistically or politically. I was there [...]
By Caitlin Fitzsimmons Singapore feels on first acquaintance like a tropical version of Legoland. Despite the steamy heat and Asian faces, it’s hard to escape the impression that we have been transported to the set of the Truman Show, that Jim Carrey movie where an entire city has been created for television. Skyscrapers of chrome [...]
By Caitlin Fitzsimmons It’s morning in Dakar and in the centre of town the Sandega Market is heaving. A rainbow jumble of fabrics tumbles out of wheelbarrows, or is piled high on trestle tables and hung from cars. Household goods and children’s toys are on sale alongside artworks and bead jewellery, while roaming merchants selling [...]
By Caitlin Fitzsimmons The Arctic tern is the only bird that breeds in the Arctic and then migrates to Antarctica for the northern winter, flying roughly 35,000 kilometres per year. The journey begins in the tundra and rocky landscapes of the frozen north, the hunting ground of the mighty polar bear, and ends in the [...]
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