Travelogue

Zambia long ago

By The Voice Editor   Posted in Issue 140
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By Peter Finlay A freezing December has turned my thoughts back over 50 years to the day my train trundled across the mighty Zambezi with the Smoke that Thunders only a hundred or two yards away – Mosi Oa Tunya in the name David Livingstone first heard it called in the original Lozi of the …

Return to Tibet

By The Voice Editor   Posted in Issue 101
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Here Lamlash resident Alice Maxwell reports on her recent trip to Tibet, where she visited some of the organisations that the Tibetan Lama Akong Rinpoche, founder of the monastery Samye Ling in Dumfriesshire, set up in the Eastern region of the country. Trip to Tibet – July 2019 It is thirty years since I have …