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Ethel Granger

This is a story of sacrifice, suffering and devotion to Beauty. A story about a love without limits of a woman, Ethel Granger, to her husband which led her to deform herself.  I’m adding this story in the Icons section…

The last day of summer

The Cure, The Last Day of Summer pic by A.M. Postcards from a day spent at Isola Polvese, in the middle of Trasimeno lake. Faded colours, like vintage pictures, give the feeling of far memories. Nothing seemed to be real as…

Around the Tonle Sap lake

During the last days of my trip I’ve been around the Tonle Sap lake visiting several floating villages living there. I visited a school and I played with childrens who was waiting for us to come. The happiness in their…

The most beautiful things of Cambodia pt2

The Angkor region is so wide that it’s impossible to visit every temple, but I couldn’t miss Angkor Wat, the world’s largest religious building. The entire temple is a symbol of the cosmo according to the Hindu cosmology: the central…

The most beautiful things of Cambodia pt1

The most beautiful things of Cambodia are kids and temples. The horrible civil war and the Khmer Rouge regime clouded the true beauty of Khmer past history. The great and enigmatic temples that today we can admire, now almost completely restored, have been rediscovered…

On the road to Siem Reap

Scenes of daily life in Cambodia I saw on my way to Siem Reap. Really funny how kids play with snakes, catch spiders and then fry them.