CATHERINE BROPHY is a writer, storyteller, and broadcaster. She was born and reared in Dublin where she lives a blameless life. But, when you live on an island, you have to escape now and then so she travels every chance that she gets. She’s been rescued by a circus troupe in Serbia, had breakfast with a Zambian chief, ate camel stew in the Sahara, and was kicked by a horse on the Mexican plain.