{"id":4038,"date":"2013-04-19T12:34:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T12:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2013-04-19T12:34:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T12:34:46","slug":"ailsas-travel-photo-challenge-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4038","title":{"rendered":"Ailsa's travel photo challenge: Contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week Ailsa showed us some unicolour tulip crowds<\/a> where an individual stands out yet stands proud of ending up in the wrong garden.\u00a0 The photos reminded me of these two from my father’s war album.\u00a0 He wrote below the first photo ‘Visit to Cairo zoo’;\u00a0 it’s nicely arranged with each of the Australian soldiers positioned in the shot between pairs of Egyptian police.\u00a0 A real contrast.<\/p>\n

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Australian soldiers visiting Cairo zoo, 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Below the second photo where a salesman seems to be working the tables, he wrote ‘Outside caf\u00e9 Heliopolis’.\u00a0 ‘Outside’ is an interesting adjective for that period when caf\u00e9s in Brisbane, Australia, where my father lived (when not away at war), did not spread outside to the footpath in continental fashion as they do now.\u00a0 Even when I was a child, there was no such thing.\u00a0 The French had influenced Egyptian culture during their time as colonisers, but it took many more decades for the idea to catch on in Australia.\u00a0 Even if the soldiers returned with ideas and encouraged caf\u00e9 owners to adopt this dining practice to which our country is so climatically suited, they were slow to try it out.\u00a0 These days, it’s a rare caf\u00e9 that doesn’t<\/em> have tables outside!<\/p>\n

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Australian soldiers at a caf\u00e9, Heliopolis, Cairo, 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week Ailsa showed us some unicolour tulip crowds where an individual stands out yet stands proud of ending up in the wrong garden.\u00a0 The photos reminded me of these two from my father’s war album.\u00a0 He wrote below the first photo ‘Visit to Cairo zoo’;\u00a0 it’s nicely arranged with each of the Australian soldiers … <\/p>\n

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