Ria Bacon: editor & writer

Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

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Real e fun attire

This one’s for Zinnia.

Driving into a one-street village on the Abruzzo coast last week, we slowed down as a procession headed towards us, led by a stout women bearing a tall crucifix in front of her, accompanied by two children. Behind them came a hearse and following on foot were the family members. The widow was there, shrouded in black, accompanied by her son walking with folded arms, looking either stoic or bored, and wearing huge fly-eye sunglasses.

fly-eye sunglasses

He was dressed in black jeans and a black t-shirt … with large silver sequined letters …

Real e fun attire (hidden)

I yelped with delight and grabbed Mr B’s arm and shouted, “LOOK AT THAT!”

The young man unfolded his arms …

Real e fun attire (full)

I hope our hoots of laughter didn’t spoil the moment … too much.

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July 19th, 2005 | Tags: , , , | Category: Photos
  • http://riabacon.blogspot.com Ria

    Oops! HTML typo. Funny that it worked fine in Firefox but not IE. Should be OK now.

  • http://realefun.blogspot.com Zinnia Cyclamen

    Well, my goodness, thank you – I’ve never had a blog post dedicated to me before.

    (And I’m glad you’re blogging again – I missed you.)

    But what did the t-shirt SAY??? Do tell – or is this another of your guessing games?

  • http://realefun.blogspot.com Zinnia Cyclamen

    Yay! Now I can see it!! Thank you very much – hilarious!!!