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...tours, which have been personally tested by McCall Smith, started two years ago, but are expected to get a boost when director Anthony Minghella's television series based on the fictional detective eventually airs. On the first tour, travelers visit the traditional village of Mochudi, Ramotswe's ancestral home. A school-turned-museum provides local history and background to Ramotswe's childhood world. Then, after lunch?chicken or beef, rice, maize pap and salads?at a local restaurant, it's on to the spot where McCall Smith met the woman who inspired his feisty heroine. Back in Gaborone, fans...
...interview with TIME, skateboard champion Tony Hawk did a disservice to young women everywhere when he noted that his arena tour showcasing the stars of skateboarding is "one of the few events dads and sons can equally enjoy" [May 9]. What, girls don't skateboard? In his offhand statement, Hawk reveals the prevailing mentality: there are places where girls belong and places where they do not. Stop the brainwashing of young girls...
Currently on the road with his Sweat/Suit tour, the rapper Nelly plays a jailhouse running back in Adam Sandler's remake of The Longest Yard...
Fans of Precious Ramotswe, "the only lady private detective in Botswana," can now walk in the "traditionally built" woman's footprints through the capital of Gaborone and the surrounding countryside. The Mma Ramotswe's Botswana tours are based on the best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of books by Zimbabwe-born Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, and are run by local safari company Africa Insight (www.africainsight.com). The tours, which have been personally tested by McCall Smith, started two years ago, but are expected to get a boost when director Anthony Minghella's television series based on the fictional...
...those who want more, a second tour goes out to the "edge of the Kalahari" where some of Ramotswe's most intrepid investigations have unfolded. Later, on a visit to the Mokolodi Nature Reserve, tour operator Tim Race, an old family friend of McCall Smith, offers a preview of future plot twists. "Anyone who has read about a place gets a lot more out of seeing it," says Race. "People always say, 'Oh, now I'm going to have to reread that part.'" Tour One costs $75 (plus tax); Tour Two $125 (plus...