Monday, July 24, 2006

Meanwhile, down at the Kuwaiti market…

At just £80, the Afghan rugs depicting the country's military hardware and conflicts with the USSR make a great talking point for anyone planning a (somber) dinner party. Granted perhaps not everyone would want to have AK47s, tanks and people dying on their wall on a permanent basis, however well crafted the rug is, but it's guaranteed to make an impression.

Alternatively, you can pick up everything from live peacocks and plastic flowers, to tortoises and tat from China.




Note in this picture I've blotted myself out in the same way the Kuwaitis go through every magazine and put marker pen over any image of a woman in her bikini or underwear, or a couple kissing. Not that my face is that offensive of course...

When a marker pen just isn't enough, the pages are ripped out altogether. And this in a country which has porn channels on the mainstream satellite TV in most people's homes… It's a funny old world.

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