On the road: Texas, part 3
San Antonio, part 2: the annual “Battle of the Flowers”
It’s fiesta time again in San Antonio. For eleven days, the locals go wild, dressing up, partying and parading. And this year, I experience this hustle and bustle up close. More here.
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Note from the road
May 11: Remembrance of two violent deaths
A side effect of traveling by bus or train is the many hours I have at my disposal on the way from A to B. While browsing Facebook and X, I found out about two violent deaths that both occurred on May 11. More here.
Wolves in sheep’s clothing?
Guest post by Volker Seitz on the dissolution of USAID, part 2
The former ambassador of the African Union to the United States strongly criticizes USAID and the exploitation of developing nations by Western trade policy. She is not alone in Africa in this. More here.
In the land of the Houthis
Bombs on Yemen and a journey into the past
A group of US politicians order bombings in Yemen via cell phone. The TV images remind me of my two trips to the architecturally and scenically fascinating country. And of a similar wiretapping scandal in Germany a year ago. More here.
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Phillip Soupault
On the Road
HOUSTON, Texas: Only a few days stay, unfortunately no car available. But I was lucky, and a woman from the Facebook group Ecstatic Dance Houston gave me a ride in her car to the Sunday morning dance session. Thank you so much!
The photos below and the cover photo are snapshots taken during my walks around the historic neighborhood I’m staying in. Houston Heights, with lots of beautiful old renovated houses, fragrant magnolia trees, an equally intoxicatingly fragrant long hedge of blooming jasmine. The usual hip bakery and lots of dogs walking their masters or mistresses on a lead (or was it the other way round?).
