The Capitol Building in Washington DC – from a safe distance.
… no comment today.
The Channel Islands
This is the promised follow-up to the previous two posts (the one about my summer road trip through England and the other about yet more DT in London). So now to the Channel Islands, where I travelled to after London, first by train to Poole and then by ferry from there to Guernsey.
The ‘Channel Islands’ is a cover term for an archipelago of islands located in the English Channel (hence the designation) but geographically much closer to Normandy in France (to which they once belonged) than to Great Britain. The islands are British ‘Crown Dependencies’ and as such
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… or maybe one short comment: yesterday’s footage on the TV news about what happened at the Capitol may have left me pretty speechless, but many others did have something to say afterwards. Out of the countless quotes I read today I pick one made yesterday by the last previous Republican US president, George W. Bush: “This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic – not our democratic republic. I am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election and by the lack of respect shown today for our institutions, our traditions, and our law enforcement.”