We had been warned, when we first came to New York, that every couple of months we must get out of the City or else we’d risk confusing its inherent surreality for normality. For the reality is, there is no place on earth like New York City. And it can mess up with your perception of time and space.
Taking this advice to heart, two months after visiting Philadelphia we took off on our second trip. A fortnight in three cities, starting with the capital: Washington D.C.
First impressions ~
a) it always strikes me as curious how birds can get so lost as to end up in the bowels of the beast that is Penn Station;
b) 3,5 hours by train on a rainy day and my collection of moody, blurry photos has been largely enriched;
c) D.C. is clean and neat, and it reminded me of those tidy, groomed cities one comes across just about everywhere in Switzerland;
d) all subway stations look alike: grey, concrete, clean, clearly marked, easy to follow even by first-time visitors (as New York subway would have been, in a parallel universe);
e) a local liquor shop with a quirky sense of humour – that was a warm welcome! Made me wonder whether quirkiness is a common feature among Washingtonians?!
En route to Washington D.C.
April 22nd, 2017
The Humble Fabulist 
“Lithographers” In a precedent life, and future I wish, I was an engraver. I jumped on A. Hoen, Lithographers on internet. And there is a whole story on the back of it, and a whole story about the building. The Baltimore Sun wrote in 2015 that it will be refurbished … but it certainly has not ! Many thanks to remind me of my press, the Humble Fabulist.
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Oh, my Gil! Who would have thought! I’m so glad I just about managed a snap of this – it seems it happened especially for you 🙂
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