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INSPIRATION IN THIS ISSUE The Travel Issue – A Brief Intro 4 Nairobi, Kenya: A Life Spent in Africa 5 Basel, Switzerland: Guiding Visitors to the City 9 Luxembourg: Small But Perfectly Formed! 15 Bogotá, Colombia: Flying All Over the World 19 Copenhagen, Denmark: Dancing the Tango 26 Casablanca, Morocco: In the Spice Market 30 Lyon, France: Interpreting What I See 33 Nairobi, Kenya: A Second View 41 Bern, Switzerland: From Peru to Europe 44 Genoa, Italy: Cruising Round the World 50 Berkshire, England: From Australia With Love 53 Frankfurt, Germany: Walking Tours 60 Marrakesh, Morocco: Magical Medinas 63 Barcelona, Spain: Remember to Look Up 65 OUR FEATURES Paris, France: April 15, 2019 - The Fire 13 Be Our Guest. Just Don’t Let the Cat Out 23 Just For Fun 1 32 The Beauty of Kenya: A Poem 36 Inspiring Women Travel Quiz 37 The Journey: 1975/76 in the USA 48 IN EVERY ISSUE Inspiration From the Editor 3 From the Cover Coordinator 3 Inspiring You 68 Magazine Feedback 68 More About This Issue 69 A Club Inspires: AWC Bogotá 56 Just For Fun 2 62 Dalmahoy Hotel p.12 Janet Darrow p.35 London & Capital p.18 The Pajama Company p.25 ADVERTISERS’ INDEX Inspiring Women would like to thank our long-term advertisers for supporting us: Janet Darrow, The Pajama Company and London & Capital. For this special “travel issue” we welcome the Dalmahoy Hotel and Country Club from Edinburgh, Scotland, the venue for FAWCO’s recent Biennial Conference. FAWCO club members - do you want to take your business worldwide? Consider advertising in Inspiring Women. Contact Elsie Bose at advertising@fawco.org to get started. We offer great rates and comprehensive packages for almost any budget. 2
Inspiration From the Editor This issue is all about travel so I thought I would see what the internet had to say about it: T r a v e l T r i v i a ( i n f o r m a t i o n c o u r t e s y o f Wikipedia) Travel is the m o v e m e n t o f p e o p l e b e t w e e n d i s t a n t geographical locations and travellers are those who travel. Personally, I think you could quite legitimately also define a traveller as a woman involved in FAWCO! We’ve all travelled at least once from our home countries and often many times. The women in this issue of Inspiring Women are no different. The origin of the word "travel", first used in the 14th century, may be from the Old French word travail, which means “work”. According to Simon Winchester in his book The Best Travelers' Tales (2004), the word "travel" has an ancient root: a Roman instrument of torture called the tripalium. It makes you realise that travel in ancient times must have been somewhat different to what we think of when we use the word today (although I’m sure we’ve all got our tale of travel woe to share!) Today we can travel relatively easily and quickly depending on our destination. It’s quite something to remember that Christopher Columbus took over 10 weeks to get to his final destination, a journey that today would take just a few hours. Travel for pleasure dates back to the wealthy Greeks and Romans who travelled for leisure to their summer homes and villas. Then in the late 16th century it became fashionable for young Europeans to do a “Grand Tour” round Europe as part of their education. It wasn’t until the advent of the railway networks in the 19th century that more people could travel for fun as travel was no longer a hard and challenging task. Since then a whole travel industry has grown up and we haven’t looked back! So that’s travel according to the internet. Now for travel according to a group of FAWCO women from around the world. Hope you enjoy the read! Don’t forget to complete our survey to let us know what you think (p. 68).... Best wishes, Liz x Liz MacNiven, inspiringwomen.editor@fawco.org From the Cover Coordinator The cover photo for this issue is made up of photographs taken by Fannie Kakonge and Patricia Jentz, the FAWCO Co-Representatives of AWA (American Women's Association) Kenya. The beautiful Maasai ladies Fannie met in Nairobi and the animals shot "live" by Patricia, depict the specificities of this country and reveal its wild beauty . If you have a photo that you would like to see on a future cover of Inspiring Women, you can reach me, Marie-Bénédicte Luxem, at inspiringwomen.cover@fawco.org. There are full details of the photo requirements on page 56 of this magazine. Please note: we can only accept portrait orientation images. 3
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Page 5 and 6: Nairobi, Kenya: A Life Spent in Afr
Page 7 and 8: Tell us about a typical day for you
Page 9 and 10: Basel, Switzerland: Guiding Visitor
Page 11 and 12: Skiing at Zermatt If you could trav
Page 13 and 14: Paris, France: April 15, 2019 - The
Page 15 and 16: Luxembourg: Small But Perfectly For
Page 17 and 18: What is the best-kept secret in you
Page 19 and 20: Bogotá, Colombia: Flying All Over
Page 21 and 22: IN CONVERSATION WITH MARY… What a
Page 23 and 24: Be Our Guest. Just Don’t Let the
Page 25 and 26: Visiting your Favorite City this Su
Page 27 and 28: dances Argentine tango are called
Page 29 and 30: Tourists on bicycles are the exact
Page 31 and 32: IN CONVERSATION WITH NEZHA… Tell
Page 33 and 34: Lyon, France: Interpreting What I S
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IN CONVERSATION WITH JODEAN… Tell
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Marrakesh, Morocco: Magical Medinas
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Barcelona, Spain: Remember to Look
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