‘I am not enjoying myself very much.’ Winston Churchill, Cromer, 1885
Curfew
“What is this? A curfew?” “No, it’s just autumn, the time of year,” Irimiás noted sadly: “People sit by their stoves and don’t get up …
Duhn
After we had finished our coffee, I retired to the edge of my bed and attended to what little toilet I could while the beduin …
Happiness
When the evening came, and the sweet shrill cry of the kites, that fills the daylight, stopped, ‘Awiz appeared with three paraffin lanterns, which he …
Camel’s eye view
The camel is an ugly animal, but, like some plain women, has lovely eyes, brown and soft with long lashes–often the only gentle things to …
Empire
The cook was an Indian, engaged by the hospitable al-Kafs to make British travellers feel at home with their own familiar dishes : he had …
Himar
There is a cheerful quality in the neat brisk sound of trotting donkey feet on hard ground. And it is pleasant too, to sit on …
Stairway to Heaven
Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo, March 2013