A travelog Saturday The end of September, summer drawing to a close, a British Airways COVID voucher burning a hole in my pocket, and so to Madrid - home of Lorca, Picasso, Modric, Franco, Hemingway, Bellingham, Iglesias, the Prado, an Egyptian temple, flamenco, tapas, teeming streets, ceramic tiles, bullfights, El Cordobés, jamon, Irish bars and … Continue reading 4 Days in Madrid
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Woman at Western Wall, Jerusalem
I was 18, a callow youth, instead of now, a callow adult. It was 1975 and I’d spent 3 months on a kibbutz – it’s what we did before they invented gap years – with other volunteers from all over the world. Our last week was for us, and we hitch-hiked south and made it … Continue reading Woman at Western Wall, Jerusalem
Skateboarder at South Bank
There’s a place on the South Bank in London, just near the National Theatre where the skate-boarders go. It’s nearly always busy, every inch decorated by graffiti. The day I went a man was over-painting a wall – tattoos, straggly hair, low slung trousers, numerous spray cans at his feet. ‘Can anyone do that?’ I … Continue reading Skateboarder at South Bank
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