You may have noticed there was something of a blank here at Lucid Ephemera for a few weeks while I went off and did festive things and had a holiday. More details on Italians in puffy jackets and wild boar salami follow in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I hope all of you [...]
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2010 and 2011, thank you and hello
Posted in Aleppo, archaeology, architecture, Australia, autumn, Berlin, bread, British colonial mansions, cathedrals, chocolate, Christmas, churches, Crete, Cretins, Cyprus, Damascus, day trips, deer, Dodgy taxi drivers, driving, elbow, England, expat, fleas, food, Germany, Greece, history, Italy, Liverpool, manor houses, markets, Morocco, mosques, museums, odd hotels, Ottomans, Phillipine overseas domestic workers, post offices, Recalcitrant stereos, rowing, shopping, singing, smuggling, summer, Sunday, Syria, The Cyprus Question, The Mediterranean Middle Lane, tombs, tourism, travel, Turkey, Uncategorized, Venetians, Volkswagens, Volkswagons, weather, winter, wordless, work, working from home, Xania on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wordless Wednesday
Posted in cathedrals, England, Italy, summer on July 28, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I Am Blessed
Posted in cathedrals, Cyprus on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Save perhaps the church in Rome that’s covered in monk’s bones or the occasional glimpse of a decaying saint, it’s rare that visiting a religious building is a weird and wonderful experience. This would however be an accurate description of my visit to a little Byzantine church in the Greek Cypriot half of Nicosia’s old [...]
Spires and Minarets
Posted in architecture, cathedrals, Cyprus, history, mosques, Ottomans, The Cyprus Question, Turkey, Venetians on August 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Cyprus seems to have been invaded by everyone from the Turks to the armies of Mordor. There were Crusaders of various stripes, different species of French nobles and at least two types of Italians (Genoese and Venetians), let alone the various incursions of the last five hundred years. Each has left their mark on the [...]
