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 »
Ship Shape
Posted in England, tourism on July 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
With the arrival of summer the canal boats on the waters near us have come out of hibernation. They mosey about the canals in this area like ducks, although with less quacking. Canal boats are a heterogeneous species. Some seem to be used for living in, and their peripheries are loaded with bikes and tarpaulins [...]
Travels with my Stomach
Posted in food, tourism, travel on October 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I have decided that the way to determine how the middle class eats in a given city is to visit its museum café. In Chicago, for example, it was a free soup with your overprocessed, tasteless made-to-order sandwich, which spoke volumes about why Americans are so fat. In New York, it was a different story. [...]
Tourism and Other Diseases
Posted in Crete, Greece, tourism, Xania on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some things can be popular and remain excellent, like Flight of the Conchords and Harry Potter. I wish towns and tourist attractions could be like that, absorbing innumerate visitors without changing too much, but some things can’t be spread so easily between an infinite number of people. Paris is perhaps an exception, but small villages [...]
