So Tired. So Angry.
“Listen man, you got me at the wrong time. Normally I would try and have a conversation with you about this but I just hit my head really hard on the bathroom door frame, and I have no patience for your stupidity right now…”
Exploring the IPA’s History (& Europe’s roads) with MTPNYC
The most popular style of American beer came into fruition because of some thirsty Brits in India…
Old Fat Dirty – Bogota, Colombia
“Bogota has very colourful street life, as you can see. Unfortunately there are also many homeless people on the streets in the city. During the tour, homeless people may come and stand near our group. Don’t worry. They are just curious because we speak English. They will not do anything bad…”
The British Museum: Kings, Gods & Stabbing – London, England
It is very important to make really good tools for killing other people. Bad people, of course. Bronze is OK, but if you want to build a serious empire, make your stabbing tools out of iron…
Tadek & The Wolf
“There is a hungry old wolf, lives in this wood. Better you should be home now that night has fallen, for he may smell your young blood on the breeze…
Plastic Monks – Ayuthaya, Thailand
Facing each other across the Chao Phraya River, in Ayuthaya, Thailand, two temples present a stark historical contrast. Wat Tha Ka Rong is a bustling modern complex, something between a strip mall and a church. A stone’s throw away is Wat Chaiwattanarm, a crumbling ruin dating from the early 17th century. (Top photo: what…
Saddle Sore – Angkor Wat, Cambodia
…There is a vertiginous weight about the structures. Passing through the gates into the temple enclosure, struggling up the endless steep stairways, I am acutely aware of the intention of Angkor’s architects: impress the bollocks off people – make them feel very small… Me and J-man get on the slow train out of Bangkok. Actually,…
Vodka & Lost Teeth – Poochera, Australia
…’I have never hitchhiked’, Vladimir says. ‘Only once. It was during my time in the military. I joined the Serbian patriots when I was just turned fifteen. Tito was my commandant at that time’… ‘Poochera. I sleep here once with my wife’ Vladimir muses. ‘I think was here…’ Poochera is an almost non-existent settlement on…
Gold Mine – Brusson, Italy
Guido picks us up in the Aosta Valley, in far north-west Italy. Guido is 33, tall, lean and has a winning smile. He is the sheriff of his small village. The name of Guido’s village is Brusson, which means “gold mine”, but all the gold ran out centuries ago. As we wind along the…
Monster Workshop – Strasbourg, France
In the old part of Strasbourg the enclosed bridge is under renovation. There are a whole lot of ceramic gargoyles sitting in groups, in various states of repair.
More Pics – Paris, France
I kept running my camera battery flat in Paris. So many pics. Here’s a bunch more of them. (There are so many beautiful artifacts from the ancient world in the Louvre. Some of them remind you what a prudish age we live in now.) (Pan) (A pallid mediaeval lady.) (Up close and personal with Michelangelo’s…
La Ville Lumiere – Paris, France
…The pavement is bustling with people, bicycles, scooters and cafe tables. Young couples are actually standing in the street, or sitting on the saddles of their scooters tongue kissing, just like in the movies… Marc picks us up at St Malo, and luckily for us he is going to Paris, so it looks…