be(er)culiarities

'You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline.

[...] at the very least you need beer.'

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
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~ Frank Zappa

 

Drawings and notes from a recent trip to Costa Rica and  Nicaragua.

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 Tona, Imperial, Victoria - I'll have any of them happily. One peculiarity is that bottles are often served with a tissue wrapped around the bottle neck. In a more upscale bar, sometimes a second tissue is wrapped around the center of the bottle. You may think this dress up is to absorb condensing water drops, but no, apparently it is for - not further defined - 'hygienic reasons' . I have yet to figure out how to use them to protect my health. Maybe its just me. 

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Oliver, your visual flaneur