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: Faces of the Medina (Fez, Morocco)
Posted in Morocco, wordless on September 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wordless Wednesday
Posted in architecture, mosques, wordless on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Medersa Bou Inania, Fez, Morocco. This gorgeous fourteenth-century medersa (Qu’ran school) is decorated with intricate symbolism whose colours, shapes and materials represent central tenets of Islam, one of which is education. This school and mosque taught boys from the fourteenth century until 1940. Students commenced learning the Qu’ran by heart in classrooms on the lowest, [...]
Wordless Wednesday
Posted in wordless on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The swans at the nature reserve were particularly picturesque recently, gadding about in the sun holding one foot in the air, squealing across the water to snatch pieces of bread, and getting amorous.
Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Uncategorized, wordless on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At the moment I’m into using the macro setting on my camera to take close-ups of flowers and foliage. I love how such shots bring out flowers’ soft, moist texture. I found this waterlily in the grounds of a castle we visited in Devon in June.
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Posted in wordless on August 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Match Day
Posted in wordless on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wordless Wednesday
Posted in England, Italy, summer, wordless, tagged wordless on August 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Damascus, Syria, wordless on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wordless Wednesday
Posted in England, Greece, Italy, winter, wordless on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
