Lure of Yemen sparks extraordinary connection for top travel writer
IN 2005, the BBC journalist John Simpson told me he’d love to visit the Yemen. He told me the BBC had simply refused permission. I was astonished that, back then, Beirut was considered ok, and the mostly peaceful Yemen not so.
Since then the Yemen has become more dodgy. There’s now massive civil unrest in the capital, with rocket attacks and gun battles involving deserter units. Yet the English travel writer, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, continues to live there.
