Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.
John GimletteIf you travel in countries like Morocco, and I say that because I have just come from Morocco, if people are shouting at each other in an argument, violence is not going to follow. That would be just so far removed.
John GimletteThere is a very big difference between American and British travel journalism, and that's this whole business of the assisted or freebie trip. In Britain we are unashamed about any travel company paying for you to go and then writing about it. That's the only way we can do it. But I have tried the same in the States, and I can't write for any sizeable American newspaper because they tell you to do it on this basis.
John GimletteThis terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.
John Gimlette