Travel Like Beckham!
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.17.03 | 11:28 PM ET
This David Beckham-themed item may seem like a shameless ploy to gain some readers from his legions of fans. We’re not above that sort of thing. Apparently, neither is the New York Times, which took some time away from legitimate issues of the day (the Middle East conflict, the elusive weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, etc.) to run an editorial about his rumored transfer from Manchester United to Barcelona. However, in this instance, we’ve got a legitimate reason to drop Beckham’s name. He is the subject of one of the more unlikely travel stories we’ve seen recently, a piece called “The David Beckham heritage trail,” which appeared in last Friday’s Guardian. Ed Vallance and Paul Hamilos have compiled a destination guide to 12 spots with Beckham ties, including the Walthamstow greyhound track east London (where he had his first-ever job collecting glasses), the Met Fair bar in Mayfair (where he met his wife) and Brooklyn, New York (where he and his wife conceived their first child). The piece has one serious omission: Where do we find the stylist who gives him those lovely hairdos?
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
