• Top 10 Best Questions To Ask A Local Person When Travelling

    1 – Where can I find the most spiritual place in the city.
    2 – What is the taste of the city and where can I get some?
    3 – What’s the best place in town that visitors never go to?
    4 – Where would you go to get the definitive photograph of the city?
    5 – What is the best beach/green place round here?
    6 – What makes people laugh here?
    7- Where is the prettiest place to go for a walk?
    8 – Where is the place that most makes you happy?
    9 – What makes people come and live here and why?
    10 – Why did they build it right here?

2 responses to “Carmen from the wings”

  1. Elizabeth Avatar
    Elizabeth

    A week already? Bother. Saw the notification, meant to listen/watch all week. Haven’t. Sigh. (previous five sentences describe phd-student life generally, I suspect, lack of grammar included).

  2. Rev Ruth Avatar

    Imagine if our little flocks could see behind the scenes at church on a Sunday morning. Would they be surprised to see the thurifer on his/her knees blowing frantically on the charcoal, swinging the thurible through 360 degrees to get it going? Would they be surprised to see the MC rummaging through the pile of paper looking for that Collect which has just been asked for? Would they be surprised to see the Altar Servers giggling and larking around before processing out sedately?

    These things are best left unseen too, I suspect.

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