yullow!

im back from an ab-sho-lootly gorgeous holiday. while the uk has really fantastic museums and galleries (and whopee, the jersey conservation trust!), i must confess i lost my heart to kiev. it is an awesome place! do go if youve the chance. avoid winter though - it hits minus 30 degrees only. and this time, because of the fight with russia, gas was totally cut off for a week or so, so everyone just shivered in their homes. to put it mildly, brrrrr!

saw some very interesting stuff art-wise and politically. kiev provided much food for thought. (er, and for hogging. our hosts spoilt us silly!) the chernobyl museum was striking partly because of its incompleteness, the streets for sheer local flavour, the churches for architecture and history (the oldest one was built in 1012 and it still stands)... so generally, im full of blah and hope to post properly this weekend.

until then, this is sofiskiy which i flipped for (despite its being strongly baroque in style, but then most of 'em are) -



































truly archaic eh! :D

oh - and madras airport really outdid itself. i found something even better than the inconvenience thing! on arrival, we passed a closed room. it bore the notice "Refusal Room (Ladies)". ahem. no comment.

also, several places in london and cardiff had "lifts for disabled use". enter lift only if dead drunk and nearly passing out?! one wonders :)

and now, i go back to drowning in backlog. glug glug me hearties!



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