Like Bourdain, when I was a teen, I was fascinated by the Congo and read everything I could get my hands on about it. Amazingly tragic region. Especially the Lumumba/Mobuto fiasco.
In 1990, I joined the Peace Corps and was supposed to go to Zaire (which Mobuto renamed the country) to teach English. But two weeks before going, it was determined there was two much unrest and my assignment was cancelled. I was later given the opportunity to go to Rwanda instead, but I had moved to L.A. by then and turned it down.
I often wondered what my life would've been like if I had done my two years in Zaire.
I still want to take a steamer from Kisangani to Kinshasa down the Congo.
so I happen to be reading The Sheltering Sky and am catching up on the show. Watching Tangier now and they keep referring to Paul Bowles. I so wanna go here (but not the Sahara!)
I'm just catching up with season two. New Mexico was a little slow. But Jerusalem, South Africa, Detroit, and Tokyo have been awesome. Sicily was solid - more like a No Reservations ep he was rebelling against.
Edit: I'm still watching Tokyo and it's just getting crazier and crazier. He's talking to the father of tentacle porn now. Japan definitely wins weird.
I'm trying to figure out what could possibly be interesting about Copenhagen.
The Emmy® award-winning CNN Original Series Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown returns for its third season of eight new episodes on CNN, Sunday, April 13 at 9pm, ET, beginning with a look at the people, food, culture and history of India’s Punjab region.
Episodes:
Punjab, India
Las Vegas
Lyon, France
Mexico City
Mississippi Delta
Russia
Thailand
Bahia, Brazil
I was in NOLA a few weeks ago and apparently the bar we wondered into in the Warehouse district is one of AB's favorites in the city. Vic's Kangaroo Cafe. It was a great place