Typewriter Men and Bowling...Again

These are my favorite workers at the market. Their job is to sit under their umbrellas with these ancient typewriters (yes, the kind where you have to zing it back to the left manually) and type up any sort of documents you might want. Seems like a dying art right? Well given the high rate of illiteracy and poverty they seem to keep quite busy. This is definitely a "paper" society and having official documents is important for everything, so if you don't know how to read or can't afford your own, where else do you go?

But alas, these fine men don't enjoy having their picture made. A few observations:

1) The first guy is hiding is face with a tea glass
2) The second is a man surprised by my actions taking a buta gas (our hot water and heat runs on butane) somewhere
3) The third guy doesn't even notice me
4) The fourth guy actually goes to all the trouble of putting a chair up to block is face
5) The doorway in the back is one of the most famous of the old city- The Sunday Gate

Click on the photo to enlarge to see the details :)


I know your day wouldn't be complete without seeing some bowling alley pictures. Like I have explained before, bowling is expensive so we only go on special occasions, which I always have my camera for those :) This week was our friend's birthday and we ate a delicious steak with Roquefort sauce and a type of fish called Sole for dinner at a French restaurant!


Here's my proud baby who just scored his highest score ever in bowling, a 194!!! He was on a roll tonight! (and yes, I made him pose with his ball for this picture)


I took a picture of the scoreboard for proof. For security purposes we use code names, hence the bowler "Antelope" :)


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