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 »
Statuesque
Posted in churches, Damascus, history, Italy, tombs on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m feeling a bit under the weather this week having been off work with a minor but persistent illness. Inspiration and energy being in short supply, I’m posting some photos instead: a collection of bronze and stone people.
Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Damascus, Syria, wordless on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Grazing in New Pastures
Posted in Damascus, food, Syria on August 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
They say that life is what happens while you’re making other plans. So it was that my tour of Syrian food happened while we were trying to equip ourselves to see Damascus. We’d arrived with little cash because Syrian pounds can’t be taken our of the country, so we had only what we could exchange [...]
