• Odds & Ends - Politics/Culture

    About Those Swimming Moroccan Migrants

    I’ve been trying to picture plunging into the ocean off the Moroccan coast and swimming to Spain in search of a job and a new country. What would you wear? A bathing suit? Bermuda shorts? Long pants with a belt and some proper underwear? A long-sleeve shirt, a T-shirt, no shirt? Barefoot, I assume? Or maybe old tennis shoes or some kind of water shoe? What else, if anything, would you try to take with you? Would you maybe tie a small hiker’s belt to your waist, into which you place…what? What extra does one think to take along when…