Fly away... by Marjolein Katsma
Photo © 2009 Marjolein Katsma | Text © 2010 Marjolein Katsma
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travel, selling, shopfront, shop, printers, tajikistan, mobile phones, dushanbe, plane tickets
Really, my travel itch is incurable! It happens when I make an ordinary train journey and at the station see a train going somewhere else… and I just want to hop on! Worse, it even happens while I’m traveling:
Here I am, for the first time in Tajikistan, walking around its pleasant capital Dushanbe and enjoying myself enormously. And in this lively shopping street I come past a travel shop, selling plane tickets to… anywhere but here… and I feel that tingle again: names of places I haven’t been to and also want to visit.
I controlled myself, and just took a picture of this striking shopfront (they also sell printers and mobile phone subscriptions – not a single shop I’ve seen here sells only one genre of goods or services): after all, there was so much more to see right here!
Taken in Dushanbe, Tajikistan 2009
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1
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Comments
Bijzonder plaatje, Marjolein! Erg mooi met al dat rood!
…en al die bestemmingen!
Dank voor het compliment, Hans!
– Marjolein Katsma
fantastic shot! excellent reds!
Thank you for the nice compliment, Dinni!
– Marjolein Katsma
Oh, Marjolein, what a fabulous picture! Straight out of the “Arabian Nights”; this is the 21st century version of a magic carpet, don’t you think? All the names on the right panel I can read, on the left, only Moscow and St. Petersburg, but I want a ticket for all of them, ALL of them! I am so glad you get to travel and bring these treasures back for those of us who stay at home.
“Magic carpet” is a very good description, Marjorie, and it certainly gave me the travel itch while I was traveling! I can recognize a few more names on the left (like Novosibirsk, Omsk, Bishkek – which we were to visit later that same trip – and Alma Ata) but not all of them.
I rtied to use this as the basis for a T-shirt, but the brilliant red came out as a very drab not-quite-red and that spoiled it – I never actually posted that design.
Thanks for your fabulous comment, Marjorie!
– Marjolein Katsma
Ha Marjolein!
Je hebt mijn stem!
Groeten en fijne avond!
Hans.
Dankjewel, Hans! :)
– Marjolein Katsma
Thank you Heather! This is certainly the reddest shopfront I’ve ever encountered. :)
– Marjolein Katsma