All these people seem to have disappeared from the provincial scene at least. While the practices of some of them as they visited our communities may have been open to question, their presence certainly added colour to the drab existence of small town Saskatchewan during that dreary period in ...
But the Gypsies have confounded predictions of their disappearance as a distinct ethnic group, and their numbers have burgeoned. Today there are an estimated 8 to 12 million Gypsies scattered across Europe, making them the continent's largest minority. The exact number is hard to pin down. Gyps...
“How are you?” Mallon said. “Can you walk?” The pickpocket turned away and leant against the store window with both hands and his head sank lower as his shoulders rose and fell. A gray-haired woman inside the store rapped on the glass and made a shooing motion. When the pickpocket...
In the words of Michael, an Irish Traveler: “Where can we put our homes? All we ask is to be given permission and to let us be. I bought this land; I have nowhere else to go. Why can't I live on it?” Gypsies and Travelers in England are now turning more frequently to the ...
The structure of each song is usually determined by its palo –the specific Flamenco style, according to rhythm and geographical origin among other criteria. Some palos are sung without a guitar; others are danced while others aren’t. However, both Flamenco artists and enthusiasts would probably...
In the time before the internet became a thing, when I was mostly stationed at bases overseas, I could rejoice when the base post office put up the mail … we had numbered post boxes, the kind that one sees in the post offices now, with the little locking doors with a small glass wi...
Ko Mai Siis a small island off the Northwest coast of Koh Kood (not to be confused with Ko Mai Si Yai). Ko Mai Si is the location ofKoh Kud Airport, the private airstrip for Soneva Resort on Koh Kood. There are a few houses in the north of the island, though I haven’t found ...
Good and bad districts of Alicante, Spain. Which areas of the city are the safest and most dangerous? Where it’s better to buy a property to live and get rental income? Property prices in Alicante depending on areas — overview and prices examples. Read
The Roma people (commonly known as Gypsies) are an ethnic minority in Eastern Europe. Usually, they are the poorest. Their integration, into the mainstream society, hasn’t been very successful. While that might be the right solution to the problem, at the same time, it raises the question...
The problem with this is that we are now starting to give our honorable (oops, make the "honourable") neighbors to the north a bad rep. ("Wow, these Canadians are just as bad as the Americans...") But seriously. In truth there are far more people out there who like Americans than...