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In the novel "The stress of her regard", Tim Powers describes a Pub named "Galatea" under the London Bridge.
Since I discovered The Mug House I wanted to come and drink a Pint (of beer).
I had this drink with my lunch in Kyoto on 10 April. No idea what it was - I ordered it by pointing - I was mainly intrigued by a fluorescent green drink that's served in a jam jar. It had a kind of fermented taste (might have been slightly alcoholic) but I still couldn't identify it. But it was delicious.
A corner cafe on Rue Denoyez in Belleville (Paris, France) tells you exactly what you should do there and comes stocked with all that you need.
ODC 11th June 2011: FairyTale
~Alice in Wonderland~
Just mineral water bottle,f/1.8 manually adjusted for bokeh on black background and used Pixelmator to add the words and cropping.
No one can drink a pint faster than me.....and I mean no one. That's why when Gina B. beat me by a milli second that night, I thought I had met my match.THEN,l I got this photo proof that she jumped the gun.
Paella in the Park, 2011. A Porterhouse Productions event, Traverse City, Michigan.
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When the need to roar overtakes the need to swallow...
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Lycian drinking cup, 410–390 BC
Lycia, found at Tell el-Maskhuta, Egypt
Silver, gold and glass
This silver cup is Greek in style and shape. It is decorated with a Greek myth, in which the Trojan prince Paris judged a beauty contest between the goddesses Aphrodite, Athena and Hera. The figures, however, are identified in Lycian writing, with Athena given the name of Lycian deity Malija. Paris’ eastern clothing reflects Greek conventions representing Trojans, but this may have had added significance in Persian-ruled Lycia.*
Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) was a crossroads of Persian, Greek and local cultures. When Cyrus II ‘the Great’ (about 600–530 BC) invaded the region in 546 BC, he captured wealthy kingdoms such as Lydia and Lycia, and the Greek settlements on the Ionian coast.
Although he appointed Persian satraps as governors, some local dynasts were permitted to rule on the king’s behalf. One of these was King Arbinas of Lycia, for whom the Nereid Monument was built.*
From the exhibition
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
(May 2023 – Aug 2023)
Between 490 and 479 BC, the Persian empire tried, and failed, to conquer mainland Greece. Many Greeks explained their victory as a triumph of plain living over a ‘barbarian’ enemy weakened by luxury. Ancient objects reveal a different story. The Persian court used luxury as an expression of prestige and power, with a distinctive style that was imitated and adapted across cultural borders, even influencing democratic Athens and, later, the world of Alexander the Great.
'Treasure there was in plenty – tents full of gold and silver furniture… bowls, goblets, and cups, all made of gold'
When Greek soldiers captured the royal command tent of the Persian king during the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC), they were confronted suddenly and spectacularly by luxury on an unimaginable scale. To many ancient Greek writers, the victories of the small Greek forces against the mighty Persians were a triumph of discipline and restraint over an empire weakened by decadence and excess.
Drawing on dazzling objects from Afghanistan to Greece, this exhibition moved beyond the ancient Greek spin to explore a more complex story about luxury as a political tool in the Middle East and southeast Europe from 550–30 BC. It explored how the royal Achaemenid court of Persia used precious objects as markers of authority, defining a style of luxury that resonated across the empire from Egypt to India. It considered how eastern luxuries were received in early democratic Athens, self-styled as Persia's arch-enemy, and how they were adapted in innovative ways to make them socially and politically acceptable. Finally, it explored how Alexander the Great swept aside the Persian empire to usher in a new Hellenistic age in which eastern and western styles of luxury were fused as part of an increasingly interconnected world.
The exhibition brought together exquisitely crafted objects in gold, silver and glass, and featured star loans including the extraordinary Panagyurishte Treasure from Bulgaria. Whether coveted as objects of prestige or disparaged as signs of decadence, the beauty of these Persian, Greek and Hellenistic luxuries shaped the political landscape of Europe and Asia in the first millennium BC – and their legacy persists in our attitudes to luxury today.
[*British Musem]
Taken in the British Museum
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Was watching a herd of wild horses as they were crossing a river. It was so hard to choose a favorite picture.