Buildings and fields – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Paradise and town-planning

The Turks and Jews of Istanbul demonstrate that co-existence is not impossible.

Competing Amazigh and Arabic etymologies of “beur”

And “beurette,” of course, this being the Year of Zahia Dehar, who sounds like she may escape from being shagged up the bum by Pierre Woodman.

Beurettes with their backs against the wall in Aytré, Poitou-Charentes, CC by <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/llansades/4029997524/'>Thierry Llansades</a>.

Tour guide learns routes from Google Streetview

Here‘s a cheeky hybrid of actual and virtual tourism: the guide hasn’t been to all of the places advertised here at 100€ per person per day, and he hasn’t visited some for a decade, so instead of conducting costly research he learns them from Google Streetview. Which, for all I know, may work perfectly well…

The right and the wrong type of snow, according to Avicenna, Aristotle and Plutarch

With an excerpt from a plea for more state funding by the Bostonian Western Rail-road, in which we are given to understand that snow is not necessarily a bad thing.

Eastern Black Sea Tour, Tunisia

TravelShop Turkey‘s bus doesn’t actually take you to Istanbul or Tunis, but love those krazy keywords (and of course even Trabzon isn’t that Turkish any more anyway).

Why I’m called Trevor

Or, rather, how my grandfather seems to have been named after a minor railway station.

Donkijote

Can someone work out from this steaming pool of verbal diarrhea if they’re loading the donkey down with GPS recorders etc and then letting it go wherever it wants? Now that would be really interesting. Er, not, actually. [Whatever happened to Deirdre (?) and the donkey and cart with which she made her way from…

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