Fay Young

Category: Global Gossip

  • Beijing’s Early Birds

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    “If you don’t come out in the morning to wake up, how will you be alive? What kind of life is that?” Caroline Cooper’s postcard from Beijing Overgrown with towering skyscrapers and wide-lane boulevards, Beijing’s quiet street life and old hutong homes are under threat. Preparations for the 2008 Olympics are at the forefront of…

  • Dubrovnik street theatre

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    “Sex and drugs and sausage rolls,” there’s a guy behind me in the queue for the concert in St Salvation  with a mission to entertain. “You don’t get lager louts in this town, you get Saga louts.”  His wife is not amused: “Oh Sid, give over.” With or without Saga louts, at night you can…

  • Goodbye Lenin hello Tesco

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    This is an extract from a Postcard case study written last year – this year’s riots in Budapest give a new twist to the tale. Old Soviet heroes rust in peace in a statue park on the green edge of Budapest but in the heart of this city, capitalist business is booming. Hungarian trade is…

  • Postcard from Helsinki

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    Autumn tree tops, brown reeds reflected in the water, trams running over the bridge: my view of Helsinki from the hotel room. I am warming to a place where you can buy birch twigs in the market to thrash yourself to a healthy pink in the sauna. “Be sure to jump in the sea afterwards”…