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Editor's letter - June 2009
On a warm and dusty evening on the last day of April, my neighbours decided to have a barbecue.
- By Debi Sen, Editor
- Published: 09:11 June 1, 2009
On a warm and dusty evening on the last day of April, my neighbours decided to have a barbecue. So while I was inside an air conditioned room, sipping a cool drink and thinking that winter was over, someone somewhere else was instead making the most of the tail end of the good weather.
I hear they dug a pit in their garden, grilled some ribs and potatoes and had a wonderful time in the outdoors, thumbing their noses at the slowly rising temperatures as they sat under the stars.
When you think about it, you can make the most of every fleeting moment - because as that old Rolling Stone ad used to say, it's all about perception versus reality. Which is why I'm not really feeling so bad about the incoming heat and dust storms that lie ahead. Instead, I'm going to start thinking about the best opportunity that summer brings with it - a chance to pack your bags, head out the door and see new places.
4men's June travel special does just that - with 10 pages to help you to explore and make plans for escape during the months ahead. If you like your vacations to be fast, fun and dangerous, check out Walk the Edge on pg 36, where you can pick out some of the world's most off-the-wall adventures, like flying a Mig jet in Russia.
And if you have an old-fashioned sense of wanderlust, don't miss out on the romance of the Trans-Siberian railway in Northern Exposure, pg 34 where Adrian Bridge explores one of the world's great rail journeys. We'll even tell you what to take with you when you go.
All this, plus our interviews with a few people right here in Dubai who are about to embark on some journeys of their own - Nitin Nair talks to the city's best known band, Abri, just as they're poised to launch their second album on a global scale, and Ashley Mark Hammond sits down with Iranian-born US citizen Ashfin Ghotbi who's about to take over as Iran's new football manager and asks whether coming home is sometimes the hardest tour of all.
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