August 9th is National Book Lovers Day so this week’s (late again) travel theme celebrates the written word, starting off with an homage to Ireland’s literary heritage, painted on one of the panels of a rather surprising door in the very heart of Dublin.
A little boy getting ready to add his mark to the graffiti at Cadillac Ranch on Route 66.
An early form of graffiti, an ancient petroglyph on the red rocks of Mesa Verde.
Traditional Irish lettering, An Teach Bán is Gaelic for The White House. No, not that White House, this one is in Kilmore Quay.
A very Germanic welcome to the little Bavarian town of Leavenworth deep in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State.
My favourite name on the tiles at Pike Place Market. Thanks for the laugh, Turkeylips, whoever you are.
Words for days like these, illuminated at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washingon DC.
Hope for days like these, the Imagine mosaic remembers John Lennon at Strawberry Fields memorial in Central Park.
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❤ Ailsa
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. – Rudyard Kipling
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. – John Maynard Keynes
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