Behind the tiny Venezuelan beach village of Playa Chuao is a massive banana plantation. For some reason this fascinated the Italian and me. And so, when we disembarked from a fishing boat we had hired to take us to Playa Chuao, we walked right past the beach and the small village and into the banana … Continue reading »
Posted in January 2010 …
Is It A Dog Or A Sheep?
Or something else? Like a dogsheep? It was friendly whatever it was…
Photo Of The Day: Sao Paulo, Brazil
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A Model Of Birkenau
In conjunction with our visit to, and subsequent reporting on Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum London established a permanent Holocaust exhibition. One component of this exhibition I was particularly impressed by was a model constructed with painstaking detail showing the process by which Jews and others were led off the trains in Birkenau and straight … Continue reading »
