Michael Palin: Travel Makes One ‘Less Afraid of the World’

Travel Blog  •  Julia Ross  •  07.08.08 | 10:40 AM ET

At lunch with the Financial Times, the amiable BBC travel host chats up a Moldovan waitress, expounds on his love of atlases and tells tales about filming on the Pakistan border.

Tags: Media Addict, Video, Life of a Travel Writer, News and Briefs

Julia Ross is a Washington, DC-based writer and frequent contributor to World Hum. She has lived in China and Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar and Mandarin student. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Plenty and other publications. Her essay, Six Degrees of Vietnam, was shortlisted for "The Best American Travel Writing 2009."


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