Archive for July, 2005

You’re sitting at a small bar, drinking local wine and exchanging pleasantries with the local farmers just before siesta time. You’re high up in the Sierra Nevada, gazing down on Granada off in the distance.

Have you seen that ad for property in the Gulf states? The one with the huge palm-tree development stretching out into the Gulf? It looks impressive and, if the marketing is to be believed, all classes of celebrities have already signed up. In the same region, there is a development modelled on an aerial view of a globe, where you can buy a country. Hard luck, though, Ireland has already been bought.

Have you ever taken the Tube in London? Can you imagine the scene last Thursday morning: the terror, the smoke, the smell of burning, the heat, the panic, the darkness and the desperation?