No glass-wall travel writing here

Well done. I really liked the way it made you feel you were there and experiencing it all. So there were often
points when I felt a bit uncomfortable or uneasy.

So many travel writers
seem to put up a glass wall between where they are as if they want to
distance themselves from the subject.

Now this may seem a bit deep, but
Jean Paul Satre had this theory that some people live their lives so they
are meaningful only as a story which is re-counted, not just living life for
its own sake.

Now that's what I don't like in travel writing, that the
exponent is detached from real life and anything unpleasant can be
distanced.

Your book is in your face as if there is no passage of time
between you being there, writing it and me reading it, it feels like the
present. And I found myself thinking about it a lot, the moral dilemmas of
being someone with money in a place where no-one has any. I'm just reading
a book about Victorian London where people at opposite ends of the scale
live cheek by jowl with one another and I can see the same dimension in
that. And it is something that keeps cropping up in discussions with other
people when you're talking about some totally different subject and it
leads on to me saying, well I've just read about my friend travelling in
Cuba and it reminds me......
Anyway, I hope you can pick out of this message that I enjoyed it.