We all here love traveling. Part of that passion extends to teaching children about the world, and it is always important to remember that there are dangers as well as benefits to our wanderlust. Travel is not always about chirpy or intellectual forays into the world outside our door. On a very serious note, I would like to add my voice to the hopes and sympathies expressed across Europe for the safe return of Madeleine McCann.
I’m not sure how much this story has been covered in the States, since I left the U.S. for Portugal the day that the 3-year-old British girl was kidnapped from her family’s room in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. The case has been anxious topic of conversation in Lisbon, maybe the more so as the Portuguese care so deeply about children. At one point my guide-for-the-day could talk of little else.
Soon to be a mother myself, I can only imagine what kind of nightmare Madeleine’s parents are living through — staying in a foreign country, now desperate for the return of their daughter. I can only add my deepest sympathies to the millions already out there.
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