Tag: Thursday Doors

• Galveston..Memories and Prejudices

  

  Some places disappear to inner recesses of memory till an incident or event resurrects them to the forefront. In the summer of 2011 Galveston was another beach town for a weekend visit from neighbouring Houston, Texas. 10 years later, in 2021, Galveston metamorphosed from a bleachy, cataclysmic city into a ‘freedom’ icon. I learn that this […]

  Travtrails

  June 19, 2022

  2021, 2022, Accidental Expat, Memories, Sense of Place

  Black Lives Matter, Galveston, Hurricane Ike, IndiBlogger, Juneteenth, past revisited, Refurbished Heritage, Texas, Thursday Doors, Travel, USA

• Doors to Recycling Art

  Inspiration and recycling….from 2011 visit to Houston, Texas.. for Norm’s Thursday Door Challenge The Beer Can House, a folk art icon and an ‘Ode to Recycling’  in Rice Military, Houston, Texas, boasts of an unique decor…beer cans, bottles, caps and other beer paraphernalia.  What do you do if you continuously guzzle beer while constructing your […]

  Travtrails

  July 17, 2020

  2020

  Beer can House, Houston, Norm’s Weekly Challenge, Recycle Art, Texas, Thursday Doors

• Doorway to Abundance….Gateway of India

  The Gateway of India, Mumbai ….the symbolic doorway to India welcoming visitors… the friendly and not so friendly. It was a symbol of power and majesty constructed by the British to commemorate the arrival of King George V and Queen Mary  to India in 1911 for the Delhi Durbar. They were presented with a  cardboard  version […]

  Travtrails

  April 5, 2019

  Accidental Expat

  British India, Gateway Of India, Mumbai, Norm’s Weekly Challenge, Thursday Doors