Hunting and Gatherings - You Might Want for the Country

Is there a possibility for you to live out of a single carry-on-sized bag?

H&H

H&H Picnic set

H&H

H&H Water Bottle

The Art of Travelling Light...

H&H Cigar Humidor etc.

LV Humidor

LV Travel - Bookcase

Feather to Fire - Photographer Gregory Colbert

Feather to fire, fire to blood, blood to bone, bone to marrow, marrow to ashes, ashes to snow

Kuwait - Arabian Gulf Crabs - a Necklace

(All Photos by Tavarua)

The Gulf Crab Necklace...

It is hot - 114 F today... 

woke up at 03:30 to fetch some fresh Crabs at the Fish Market...

Arabian Gulf Crabs as a Necklace...

Time to Cook...

20 minutes later ready to be served...

in its simplicity...

Crab shells ...

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

-Anais Nin

Zurich, Switzerland

(Photos by Tavarua)

Suddenly... a hail storm on the streets of Zurich

Clubland Part I cont.

 Club Baur Au Lac

G & T

Thoughts from a simple Traveller - "Shabby Chic" and Eccentricity

(Photo by Tavarua)

A few years back in Clubland -  I overheard a conversation about "Shabby Chic" 


 Rather interesting concept "Shabby Chic"

I was amused????

"Shabby Chic" 

Well, is that what we call it???

Hmmm - a style of intelllectual and social overtone appering as an effortless understated elegance of times passed by.  Interiors that bring back life of an era of unsurpassed good quality and taste.  Well, now suddenly "someone" had assigned a old way of living/life a name and thought about reproducing it of how many grew up and lived. Pasted down from generation to generation with the imprint of old faded grandeur, peeling paint from untouched walls, faded old fabrics, the rich painted canvases, tooled leather, chipped and scuffed solid mahogny furniture, piles of old leather bound volumes, crumbling leather - an interior which had aged in its own way until it has reached that perfect comfort of plain simplicity and dignified old age.  

Aesthetic splendours  - eccentric untamed sophistication from the days of Under Canvas to Ancestral homes. Maybe it does not follow any pattern at all.  Perhaps it just follow the character of the person who lives there.


  Does it have to do with Eccentricity? We know that the Eccentrics do not care about what is in fashion, rules, criticism, money or time which are all of little concern for them. Their mind has a creative impulse as well as an uconforming attitude.  Sometimes definitely serious Eccentricity and sometimes making the best of what you had/have - when there were no money to repair,restore or to replace. 

"Shabby Chic" - This is and will always be an atmosphere that can never artificially be recreated.  "Shabby Chic" is a bourgeois concept.


Still - Interior Decoration is one of life's greatest creative pleasures.

African Bush Elephants in the Flower Garden

 (Photos by Tavarua)