While I photograph phone boxes I have discovered that Cory McAbee (of American Astronaut and Stingray Sam fame) takes photos of urinals.
For a look go to: http://thesmalleststar.blogspot.com/
(update 12/11/15 – can’t find his post on his blog anymore. Ah well.)
I read this great little story in The Fortean Times last night. FT251, July 2009, p.77. Author is Darren Ryden:
“In the 80s a friend of mine decided to go hitchhiking around Europe, and on the way call in on some friends in Italy. After a row at work, he quit his job early and started travelling two weeks earlier than he had originally planned. One night, during a heavy downpour in Germany, he took shelter in a phone kiosk. The telephone rang and, having nothing better to do, he answered it, expecting to hear someone speaking German.
To his suprise, it was our mutual friend in Italy calling to check some arrangement on meeting up. It transpired our Italian friend, not knowing about his early depature, has simply dialled his home phone number and had somehow been connected to that particular public phone.
Our Italian friend phoned me straight after to check that this wasn’t a hoax and that our friend was indeed abroad, which I confirmed. To this day, none of us knows how it happened. Misdial a number and the odds of picking up a particular phone in another country must be infinitesimal.”
Here are two from our recent visit to Zurich. We were particularly surprised to see the defibrillator aside the phone. A new one for me. A very sensible thing to do but I guess you need to trust the public not to vandilise the equipment.
London
In my wanderings I came across this row today.
A colleague of my husband’s told him, after seeing this blog, that I was either insane or a genius. Hmmm. She suggested I apply for a lottery grant to pursue my art. An interesting thought.
Pingvellir National Park
We visited stunning Iceland in 2007. We didn’t catch any Northern Lights so will have to return.
Wadi Rum
Aqaba
Here are two from my trip to Jordan in the late 1990s.
I can’t remember where or when this was taken – maybe late 1990s.
Just read about a phone box being turned into a gallery:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8145926.stm
“A group of residents in Settle, North Yorkshire, have turned an old-fashioned phone box into what they claim is one of the world’s smallest art galleries.”
The very first
Here is the first photo I took on this theme. It was taken on a tour of Egypt and has my room buddy in the photo.
Egypt
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