Bowles opens WV editer’s Literary Trips & Literary Trips: Following in the Foawteps of Fame, ediror Victoria Brooks, GreatestEsca; Oe Ting 62 PP. WEST. Van’s_ Victoria . Brooks has just released the firsts volume of a thematic traveller’s. series called Literary Trips. — Brooks herself opens pro- ceedings with the fascinating essay Paul Bowles: Dreaming . in Tangier which relates the PAUL Bowles wrote the foreword to Victoria Brooks’ new collection Literary Trips. . history. of his half-century stay in’ the Moroccan port. _ She visited the writer (1910-1999) at his home prior to his death last year. : There are 23 essays in the collection including M.R. Carroll’s Malcolm Lowry: Paradise Lost in Vancouver, Margaret Deefholts’ Rohinton Mistry: Chasing Ghosts in Bombay, and Mavis Guinard’s Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's Mother in Geneva. Essential reading. On a side note: The Canadian-made documentary Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles by filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal will air on BRAVO channel 28, Thursday, june 1 at 12:30 p.m: The spirit of the adventurous Bowles lives on in the work of Broo! and Baichwal. gat rsefly, B. C. is holding a 10-day festival July 14 to 23 o mark the millennium. . Trade fairs, art shows and gold rush tours are just part of what "promises to be a grand time in B.C.’s “Wil Gold Country”. ~The Cariboo’s first gold discovery in April 1859 was ten miles above the mouth of the Horsefly River and predated the- Barkerville gold rush. The village of Horsefly grew rapidly as pre ors flocked to the region. to the town’s Web site at for more information on their summer celebration. Th Tv travel series with an attitude Road Rueles: Europe, begins season three on the Outdoor Life Network (OLN ch. 49) ‘Tuesday, May 30 at 9:30p.m. . | i ‘twentysomethings, strangers when they meet, will crs- , Western Europe this summer in a souped up Winnebago. The s Barcelona before the guineet head for France. The series _E _ alin » Gondan - vareugh Au -” Ambleside Office: 926-85 .. ‘TRAVEL Sunday, May 28, 2000 - Nerth Shore News — 25 Prices open to negotiation From page 24 The sacred Mevlana museum, once a monastery, houses the sarcophagus of Rumi, founder of the Whirling Dervishes in the thirteenth century and other Sufi leaders. The adjacent wax muscum proves that there’s more to Sufi life than dancing endlessly in a circle while discarding and twirling layers of skirts to haunting music. Unable to resist Roman ruins you will return to the welcoming outdoor cafes of Selcuk for a well-earned libation after a day of scrambling over the impressive remains of the city of Ephesus. The library and Great Theatre, built to seat 25,000 people, will have impressed you. , The open multi-holer latrines where state affairs were doubt- less discussed, will have boggled your mind. Most cafe tables will be filled by Turkish men in deep concentration over a game of chess or checkers. It's now time to head for the coast. The choice of direction is yours. The Med or the Aegean? At an open air bistro in Antalya in late September, your body burns from a day at the beach. You need a light sweater. The bill arrives and there’s still change from ten bucks after you’ve both scoffed a plate of roast lamb and a very passable bortle of red wine. You wander up the quict: altey i in Kaleici to your room in the renovated Ottoman pension where breakfast in the court- yard is included in the $20 US price. A pang of guilt takes over as you write the posicard... “Dear Aunt Nellie, wish you were here, miss you and the kids already ... This is a huge country with a mature tourist infrastructure and a European flavour. There are enough ruins to keep the most jaded rock hounds interested. At the Mediterranean resorts of Western Anatolia a bikini and an English pub seem a natural fit beside a Roman harbour. You can still find that deserted beach or that quiet island. The sadness of the recent earthquakes and the political roblems with the Kurds have kept the tourists away in droves, but, j it is like saying don’t visit the U.S. because of an earth- quake in San Francisco, or Britain because of the IRA. The kindly Turks are pragmatic people and will happily bargain to URCHISAR, a natural rock castle, In Cappadocia, Turkey. fill an empty bed in an already reasonably-priced hotel. Even the restaurateurs will negotiate to fill a table. 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