New at my Patreon... I caught two high-speed trains from Barcelona to Lyon, ate gnocchi in the dining car - and puzzled over a mystery at Nîmes along the way:
(I'm on a 6-week rail trek from Portugal to Serbia, writing exclusive posts like this for my patrons as I go. Why not join my jolly travel-loving gang? It's only $4 per month and you can cancel anytime - find details here: https://www.patreon.com/timrichards )
Houses, schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, grocery stores, retail businesses, corporate offices.. The list goes on and on as to what Bakhmut offered its peace-loving citizens and tourists.
The "I went to a #Math/#Ecology conference in Southern #France and all I got is tons of super nice #nature pictures and now everybody thinks I took a vacation there" starter pack:
🥀 #Ophrys cf. fusca (awesome wild #orchid!), 🐛 #Scolopendra cingulata (HUGE #centipede), ☀️ sunny view fom a trail alongside the #Calanques, 🧗 sunny view of me before climbing down that rock.
#France has an extremely French entry with an amazing Christmas tree black dress. Bit like chanson modernised, but not too excessively - proper good. Proper dramatic and best French entry for many years.
Also, fun fact, #Austria entered a chanson with Zoe one year, was good actually. More on the sweet side than dramatic like this one though.
It's actually quite appropriate though. This is a good song in exactly the same way Euphoria was, albeit with very different staging. I still prefer #France but #Sweden has done good again.
...has never been much more than a "footnote" in the secondary schools' textbooks, even though it briefly had the 3rd largest colonialism empire, after the #UK and #France.*