On the Santa F  Trail By JILL WORRALL While deep in the deserts of Uzbekistan earlier this year, travel writer Jill Worrall was invited by a fellow traveller to attend a very special market in Santa Fe in the United States. This New Mexican town of sensuous adobe architecture is an extraordinary blend of Hispanic, Native American and Anglo cultures and, if that wasn't enough, Santa Fe had invited some of the world's best craftspeople over for a weekend to sell their wares. A Tribute to Beirut

New Mexico captures its Wild West Past                                 by JILL WORRALL/Timaru Herald Among the $1 notes papered on the wall of the Mine Shaft Tavern in New Mexico is a sign that says "Welcome to Madrid. Madrid has no town drunk, we all take turns".

About picking olives & the anarchists' day in court by Adam Keller This day was such fun,the sun shining, all the different nationalities picking away together, the food the good will but of course spoilt by the soldiers and their stupidity,but they were just kids. One is covered in dust and then the great simple food that tastes like food should.

Food for Thought

Olive-branch rabbi offers a harvest of hope By Patrick Bishop in Sinjil Most striking is the lean man with a long beard and a skullcap. This is Rabbi Arik Ascherman, 44, admired by Palestinians, hated by Jewish settlers and head of Rabbis for Human Rights. The autumn olive harvest is a flashpoint between Palestinian farmers and Jewish settlers who regard the West Bank as their own, God-given territory. postcards from palestine more food for thought