All those chili peppers…
…seem to have a bit of an aphrodisiatic effect. Or else people are just very much into penises.
A popular home decoration
Which is not to say that women don’t matter:
And Bhutan may look quaint, but people do go with the times:
Mobile monk
Kinko's
I have many more pictures, of course. I’ll do another post sometime.
(WordPress does not seem to like me today and keeps removing pictures and captions from this post. Maybe splitting it in two will help.)
There will be a new photo challenge tomorrow so I thought I’d sneak in a few more Bhutan pictures tonight.
The clothing worn in my “Faces” picture is not just a school uniform but the national dress:
It's ok to accessorize.
There is a good reason for the socks:
There is a good reason for wearing socks.
Let’s just say that the mountain kingdom…
…is not exactly the hottest place I have ever visited.
Even yaks wear socks of sorts.
To keep warm, the Bhutanese like their food extremely spicy:
(To be continued…)
Sadly, R.E.M. have decided to call it a day. What’s left is a lot of good music and — to me — a lot of good memories — not least of a great July 4th concert in Berlin’s Waldbühne one year with the band wondering whether “it ever gets dark here” and Michael Stipe sharing that it was his grandmother’s birthday. Or of the time they “crashed” a Patti Smith concert here only last summer.
Walking the cat 