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Travel magazine, featuring travellers' tales, experiences and anecdotes

Excess Baggage: 08/05/2010

08/05/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Excess Baggage, 08/05/2010

John McCarthy looks at the Andes, Patagonia and Rwanda.

John McCarthy talks to writer Michael Jacobs about his journey along the Andes and volunteer Roz Strickland about Rwanda.

John McCarthy asks travel writer Michael Jacobs about the journey he made down the Andes from Venezuela to Patagonia. Michael reveals how a bus trip can turn into a test of nerves and what happened when he went to visit the last speaker of a native language in Patagonia. 

John also talks to Roz Strickland who worked as a volunteer in an orphanage in Rwanda and thinks that the country is unfairly characterised as simply about gorillas and genocide. She thinks there is a lot more to it than that - not least the friendliness of the people once viciously divided. It could be the basis of attracting the visitors Rwanda crucially needs.

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