I have extracted money from the US Congress…
… from the ATM near their gift shop in the Capitol! Though not recently.
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Jul
Only Spellcheck, which has put a red line underneath ‘succulently’, is immune to their aroma.
… from the ATM near their gift shop in the Capitol! Though not recently.
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Jul
It seems to have first been called Queen Street during the reign of James I, so it could really have been named after his wife – Anne of Denmark – though if the stories are true, it might have been named after James himself!
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Jul
In Sydney, a building with two guys arm-in-arm called The Beat Museum would probably cover something quite different, In San Francisco, it was about ‘The Beats, as in beaten down and beatific … a collective of writers, artists and thinkers that congregated in 1950s San Francisco’, including Jack Kerouac.
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Jul
In 2016, I thought it might be the driver of the most expensive car, but apparently not, according to my Moroccan taxi driver. In Palm Springs, I saw a similar sign at a T-junction.
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Jul
Hollywood/Vine, Los Angeles, 2016.
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Jun
This is a plaque on the sidewalk of Avenida de Corrientes, Buenos Aires: one of the main roads into the city centre and heart of the theatre district: ‘Here Eva Esther Nuñez was hijacked Popular militant Detained Disappeared 15 July 1977 By the terrorism of the State’
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Jun
In 2005, as a way of learning Spanish, I visited tourist sites with Evadne, a Spanish teacher. This is an old prison cell in San Telmo (part of the Museo Penitenciario Argentino). At first glance, there doesn’t seem much of an upside to it. But the guide, a friendly man in his seventies, told me the…
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Jun
… but I could get to one in my own city. I’m growing to appreciate Perth winters. There are get days like today when the sun sneaks out through the patchwork of clouds, and I can walk along the beach without a jumper and no fear of getting burnt.
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Jun
Michael from Perth
A unique view of the strange and spectacular world through the eyes of Michael from Perth
