From Vicente Rodilla, University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen
I was on board a British Airways flight when I read in their
Highlife magazine a quiz for “fans of the Caribbean”. One of the questions
read: “Tourists love to send postcards from a village called Hell. Where is
it?”. At the bottom of the page the answer was printed: “Hell is on Grand
Cayman”.
After landing, I purchased the latest issue of New Scientist and to
my amazement, one of the first things I read was a description of Hell as “a
small town in Norway” (Netropolitan, 26 October, p 21). I am not superstitious,
but I cannot stop wondering how many Hells there are on this Earth.
Since then, I have learned that there is also a Hell-Ville in Madagascar.
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