Train ticket for non-existent train car.

Hotel apparently designed by MC Escher.

But they left fairy tales on our pillows! That was thoughtful.

In the actual world, I can be a pretty cranky traveler. I just sort of run around cussing at all the stairs even though I'm not so much angry as agreeably restless and thinking about how my shoulderblades ( Read more... )

The streets are older than the walls and the places where bullets and shrapnel bored ragged holes through stone are older than most of the people who live here now. You would not know that this had ever been a swamp, and though the city has war on its skin and war in its bones the way cities like this always do, it's hard to imagine that once it ( Read more... )