Sara Moss
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Shades of Shanghai: where are you in 2012?
Walking with a 6-foot-2-inch red-haired man in Shanghai is one way to get attention. On The Bund — flanked by the Yangtze River and architectural clones from European streets — teenage girls jostle closer to us, giggling conversations behind cupped hands. Several young women bashfully ask for a photograph and my friend is ever-obliging, aqua … Continue reading
Featured articles and images
The Toronto Star West country wanderings in England Words and pictures by Sara Moss (special to the Star) EXMOOR, ENGLAND—I’d missed the hourly bus into North Devon’s national park Exmoor by three minutes. But had I caught the bus I wouldn’t have met Jim. After two train rides, I’d arrived in Barnstaple, North Devon’s commercial … Continue reading
Australian Traveller magazine To the manor drawn Words and pictures by Sara Moss My discovery of Middleton Manor was purely serendipitous. It came late one afternoon upon leaving Witta, a tiny town near Maleny on a verdant swathe of mountainside at the southern end of the Blackall Range, in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast hinterland. I was … Continue reading
Everything France magazine Neverending story Words and pictures by Sara Moss It’s like a Kathy Lette plotline: Australian Sara Moss visits the rolling Normandy countryside and first sees her future home and future husband on the same day. Within months they are married; and this is where the story really gets going… After one business … Continue reading
Quotes and notes
- Joni Mitchell: "I'm porous with travel fever but you know I am so glad to be on my own." (Lyrics, Hejira.)
- Listening to: The Book Show, ABC Radio National, Australia
- Carl Sagan: "When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition." (Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark)
- Book pick: Lights out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre.
- Listening to: Excess Baggage, BBC Radio 4, UK
