{"id":2003,"date":"2005-05-27T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/2005\/05\/27\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2\/"},"modified":"2023-12-10T11:36:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T11:36:20","slug":"macs-travel-reminiscences-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Mac&#039;s Travel Reminiscences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mac\" src=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/mac-small.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"100\" hspace=\"12\" width=\"64\" \/>We are sorry to<br \/>\n say that Mac is not very well, but he is still e-mailing strong and<br \/>\n recently sent the Beetle a collection of travel reminiscences and<br \/>\n in particular discusses some travel writers. Former Globetrotter<br \/>\n President, Arthur Frommer (Europe On $5 A Day) gave an interesting<br \/>\n interview to travel writer Michael Shapiro for Michael&#039;s book,<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1932361081\/qid=1115019359\/sr=8-6\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i6_xgl\/202-0105339-7950264\"><br \/>\n A Sense of Place Great Travel Writers Talk About their Craft, Lives<br \/>\n and Inspiration.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n In this he writes: &#8220;As a G.I. stationed in Germany in the mid<br \/>\n 1950s, Frommer had travelled on a shoestring whenever he had a<br \/>\n couple of days off. Early on, he realized an essential truth<br \/>\n pertaining to intrepid travellers. The less you spend, the more you<br \/>\n enjoy. After travelling widely throughout Europe and<br \/>\n self-publishing a slender guide for G.I.s, Frommer wrote his<br \/>\n seminal Europe on $5 a day&#8221;.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Arthur Frommer was my hero and his books were my bible for years.<br \/>\n One of his funny stories: &#8220;Our first edition of Mexico on 5<br \/>\n Dollars A Day was written by John Wilcock who hates Mexican food.<br \/>\n He spends pages telling you where you can find a decent tuna fish<br \/>\n salad sandwich in Mexico City. I think I wrote to tell them that<br \/>\n place he recommended was now a parking lot! He doesn&#039;t like<br \/>\n Mexican food, yet he is the author of one of classic guidebooks to<br \/>\n Mexico. When you read the restaurant chapter you could tell that he<br \/>\n is virtually holding his nose. I never changed that &#8211; what he wrote<br \/>\n went into print. In my opinion, a copy editor&#039;s function is<br \/>\n grammar, punctuation, consistent abbreviations and the like-<br \/>\n it&#039;s not style. A copy editor has no right to impose his or his<br \/>\n style upon the author.&#8221;\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Close to home here he tells of &#8220;A young woman named Beth<br \/>\n Bryant called us many years ago she lived in Washington, D.C. and<br \/>\n said she wanted to write guidebooks. I said write the restaurant<br \/>\n section of a hypothetical guidebook to Washington, D.C. in which<br \/>\n you rate the government cafeterias. And she wrote this absolutely<br \/>\n delightful comparison of the Justice Department cafeteria with the<br \/>\n Commerce Department all of which are open to public visits. We<br \/>\n immediately knew that we had a star on our hands. She was sent to<br \/>\n Ireland where she wrote the first edition of our Ireland guidebook<br \/>\n which is a travel classic. It&#039;s one of the best ones we have<br \/>\n ever done.&#8221;\n <\/p>\n<p>\n I am reading and enjoying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/060980958X\/qid=1115019697\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_2_1\/202-0105339-7950264\"><br \/>\n A Fortune Teller Told Me<\/a> by Tiziano Terzani. Here are some<br \/>\n sentences I have copied down. Page 58: it was the Burmese kings<br \/>\n hankering after one of the King of Siams&#039; seven white<br \/>\n elephants, very rare and therefore magical that sparked a war which<br \/>\n lasted three hundred years &#8211; the upshot being that Auydhya<br \/>\n (Siam&#039;s then capital) was destroyed and the Siamese had to<br \/>\n build a new capital, present day Bangkok.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Page 54. The tie. Originally a Mogul invention for dragging<br \/>\n prisoners tied to the pommels of their saddles. Note from the<br \/>\n Beetle: some people believe that tie originates from Croatia. IN<br \/>\n the 17th century, a huge number of soldiers and knights went to<br \/>\n Paris to give their support to King Louis XIII and Cardinal<br \/>\n Richelieu. Some Croatian mercenaries went too, wearing traditional<br \/>\n costumes whose traditional included colourful scarves tied around<br \/>\n their necks. This attracted the attention of the fashion-conscious<br \/>\n French who adopted it as part of the uniform for French officers.<br \/>\n The description &#8220;a la croate&#8221; evolved into &#8220;la<br \/>\n cravate&#8221;. British exiled King Charles II took the fashion with<br \/>\n him from France and soon the tie or cravat spread across Europe to<br \/>\n America.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n On Bangkok, page 33. Spirit temples and small shrines. The phii<br \/>\n (spirit) of the plot of land where the old Erawan Hotel (in<br \/>\n Bangkok) was built was so happy with the way it has been treated<br \/>\n that it took to performing miracles and today its temple is still<br \/>\n one of the most frequented and most popular in Bangkok. One of its<br \/>\n specialties is to aid the conception of male offspring and<br \/>\n thousands of sterile women have come to it with all sorts of<br \/>\n offerings; some dance around it semi-nude at night. (Mac: I wish<br \/>\n they would be more specific. At what time??)\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Laos, page 27. During the war, every time the Pathet Lao crossed a<br \/>\n river the last man had to turn back and call to a non existent<br \/>\n comrade. The spirit of the river habitually carries off the last of<br \/>\n the line i.e. the last man in the patrol, and in that way the<br \/>\n guerrillas hoped to deceive it.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Tibet, page 2l. The Chinese to facilitate tourist access have<br \/>\n decided to modernise the lighting of the Potala (used to be Dalai<br \/>\n Lama palace-temple) and have installed neon lights. This is no<br \/>\n accident as neon kills everything even the Gods. And as they die,<br \/>\n the Tibetan identity gradually dies with them. This Italian writer<br \/>\n travelled for a year in 1993 without using a plane as a fortune<br \/>\n teller had told him not to travel by plane in 1993. He is the Far<br \/>\n Eastern correspondent of the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. Since<br \/>\n 1994 he has made New Delhi his base.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Interesting times! Happy trails, Mac. Mac can be contacted on: <a href=\"mailto:&#109;&#097;&#099;&#115;&#097;&#110;&#052;&#048;&#048;&#064;&#121;&#097;&#104;&#111;&#111;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;\">&#109;&#097;&#099;&#115;&#097;&#110;&#052;&#048;&#048;&#064;&#121;&#097;&#104;&#111;&#111;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are sorry to say that Mac is not very well, but he is still e-mailing strong and recently sent the Beetle a collection of travel reminiscences and in particular&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","css_class_manager_body_classes":"","css_class_manager_use_in_post_loop":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-article"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mac&#039;s Travel Reminiscences - eNewsletter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mac&#039;s Travel Reminiscences - eNewsletter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We are sorry to say that Mac is not very well, but he is still e-mailing strong and recently sent the Beetle a collection of travel reminiscences and in particular...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eNewsletter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2005-05-27T22:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-10T11:36:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/mac-small.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"The Beetle\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The Beetle\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"The Beetle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d88d8d26b7a5eee19d4a82efb44decf5\"},\"headline\":\"Mac&#039;s Travel Reminiscences\",\"datePublished\":\"2005-05-27T22:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-10T11:36:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html\"},\"wordCount\":875,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/mac-small.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Main article\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html\",\"name\":\"Mac&#039;s Travel Reminiscences - eNewsletter\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/mac-small.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2005-05-27T22:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-10T11:36:20+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/mac-small.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/mac-small.jpg\",\"width\":64,\"height\":100,\"caption\":\"Mac\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Mac&#039;s Travel Reminiscences\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/\",\"name\":\"eNewsletter\",\"description\":\"The travel club for independent travellers. \",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"eNewsletter\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2026\\\/01\\\/Globe_Logo_2025_200px-150x150-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2026\\\/01\\\/Globe_Logo_2025_200px-150x150-1.png\",\"width\":150,\"height\":150,\"caption\":\"eNewsletter\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/d88d8d26b7a5eee19d4a82efb44decf5\",\"name\":\"The Beetle\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/fcc9c018d69f9b5b9f188b5dff92e2f854ea7ab0be06ebd6105cf5db4b26c937?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/fcc9c018d69f9b5b9f188b5dff92e2f854ea7ab0be06ebd6105cf5db4b26c937?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/fcc9c018d69f9b5b9f188b5dff92e2f854ea7ab0be06ebd6105cf5db4b26c937?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"The Beetle\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/globetrotters.co.uk\\\/newsletter\\\/author\\\/the-beetle-2\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mac&#039;s Travel Reminiscences - eNewsletter","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mac&#039;s Travel Reminiscences - eNewsletter","og_description":"We are sorry to say that Mac is not very well, but he is still e-mailing strong and recently sent the Beetle a collection of travel reminiscences and in particular...","og_url":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html","og_site_name":"eNewsletter","article_published_time":"2005-05-27T22:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-12-10T11:36:20+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/mac-small.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"The Beetle","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"The Beetle","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html"},"author":{"name":"The Beetle","@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/#\/schema\/person\/d88d8d26b7a5eee19d4a82efb44decf5"},"headline":"Mac&#039;s Travel Reminiscences","datePublished":"2005-05-27T22:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-10T11:36:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html"},"wordCount":875,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/mac-small.jpg","articleSection":["Main article"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html","url":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html","name":"Mac&#039;s Travel Reminiscences - eNewsletter","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/mac-small.jpg","datePublished":"2005-05-27T22:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-10T11:36:20+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/mac-small.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/mac-small.jpg","width":64,"height":100,"caption":"Mac"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/macs-travel-reminiscences-2.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mac&#039;s Travel Reminiscences"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/#website","url":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/","name":"eNewsletter","description":"The travel club for independent travellers. ","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/#organization","name":"eNewsletter","url":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Globe_Logo_2025_200px-150x150-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/Globe_Logo_2025_200px-150x150-1.png","width":150,"height":150,"caption":"eNewsletter"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/#\/schema\/person\/d88d8d26b7a5eee19d4a82efb44decf5","name":"The Beetle","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fcc9c018d69f9b5b9f188b5dff92e2f854ea7ab0be06ebd6105cf5db4b26c937?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fcc9c018d69f9b5b9f188b5dff92e2f854ea7ab0be06ebd6105cf5db4b26c937?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fcc9c018d69f9b5b9f188b5dff92e2f854ea7ab0be06ebd6105cf5db4b26c937?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"The Beetle"},"url":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/author\/the-beetle-2"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph9Zru-wj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}