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Invisible blinkers
For this new human addiction airports provide no special room. No room would be large enough to meet the demand anyway. Since it is considered a non-offensive habit, unlike smoking, and not one dying out and in need of protection, like praying, the whole airport is put at the disposal of all passengers to answer…
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Sex room
Bars, restaurants, toilets, smoking rooms, prayer rooms, ….. : Airports cater to all kinds of human needs. But a – tax free – sex room I haven’t come across as yet. Photo of the week: New Delhi International Airport, India 2015
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Miss Dior
To the toilet I have been and prayer is not my sort of thing; so maybe I should take Miss Dior up for a free tour? Photo of the week: Changi Aiport, Singapore 2015
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The road herd, cushion-footed
This time, for a change, we were not obliged to dangerously zigzag between cows ruminating on the road; not pushed to the roadside by a train of Ambassador cars with flashing lights of some politician and his retinue; but, to our surprise, held up by a fleet of ships of the desert, quietly swaying forward…
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Desert Art
The painters mentioned in last week’s post, as the painters of the works you see here, are all part of the Papunya Tula group of artists that live in the Western Desert region of Australia. Their collectively owned company, with a studio in the Western Desert and a gallery in Alice Springs, dates back to…
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Modern art
It is interesting to see Aboriginal art exhibited in a context of old and contemporary art from other parts of the world, as is the case in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. When I visited this museum in Sydney I was impressed to see how well the Aboriginal art collection holds between the rest.…
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Sand sand sand
For once it’s me in the picture, and the credit for this photo has to go to my wife. Maybe she took it because I’m about to disappear and she’s afraid of seeing the last of me! We are not crossing a desert but a desolate sand beach on a day with very strong cold…
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Rain forests
When I hear the word ‘rain forest’ I usually think of a ‘luxuriant tropical forest with heavy rainfall’, in accordance with the definition given by my Oxford dictionary. But there are also rain forests in temperate climates. These forests are luxuriant too, be it not hot and damp as the tropical ones, but cool and moist. The…
καιρός remembered
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