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Was there an apocalypse while I was asleep at the airport?

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Heavily sedated, I fell asleep on my layover. When I woke up, the place was empty Thu 31 May 2018 01.05 BST Last modified on Thu 31 May 2018 03.16 BST Shares 89  A lone woman waiting for her luggage at an airport baggage carousel  ‘It was like that opening scene in 28 Days Later when the bike courier emerges from a coma to a city emptied of people.’ Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo When I interviewed the US writer Fran Lebowitz a few  Japanese Porn  months ago, the two things she kept returning to in our conversation were Trump and “the flight”. Trying to think of the dumbest thing she could compare to Donald Trump, she told me a story about stopping at a servo in Pennsylvania and buying a 50-cent stick of gum. She handed over a dollar before realising that the clerk could not calculate the change because the till was broken. “And I said to myself: ‘If Donald Trump had to work, this would be Donald Trump behind the counter.’ He’s really stupid. People don’t w...
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Down House, home of Charles Darwin: ‘An unstuffy educational day out’ – review

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Darwin’s Kent home and garden  Japanese Porn  immerses visitors in his work and life, and proves a day trip where learning is also fun Kari Herbert  @kari_herbert Wed 30 May 2018 11.41 BST Last modified on Wed 30 May 2018 14.11 BST Shares 30 Charles Darwin, his wife, Emma, and their children lived at Down House for 40 years from 1838. Several rooms appear as if the family still live here: with croquet sets thrown into an under-stairs cupboard, a half-played game of backgammon on a side table and Emma’s knitting left on a chair in the drawing room. Upstairs, an exhibition showcases Darwin’s voyage aboard HMS Beagle, including a reconstruction of his cabin. Outside, visitors can explore the sheltered gardens which Darwin used as an open-air laboratory, and the greenhouse in which he cultivated rare plants and devised botanical experiments. Fun fact No room at Down House escaped Darwin’s experiments. In the drawing  Jav Sex  room he once placed a jar of...
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Nîmes’ stunning new Roman museum dazzles in a glass ‘toga’

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Nîmes’ spectacular Musée de la Romanité will open on 2 June in a €59.5m complex next to the city’s equally imposing 20,000-seat Arènes de Nîmes – an amphitheatre used for events such as the recent Great Roman Games. The new museum, which will have free admission during its opening weekend, was designed by Brazilian-born architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc, who has incorporated waxed concrete, aluminium, wood and glass into the three giant rectangular buildings,  Jav Tube  the largest of which is swathed in a toga of glass tiles and is in front of the Roman amphitheatre.  Glass-tiled facade of the Musée de la Romanité with the sun reflecting of some of the tiles. Facebook Twitter Pinterest  The museum’s facade. Photograph: Serge Urvoy Portzamparc sees the museum as a “Citizen of Nîmes” wrapped in its own toga. The folds and gaps in the “fabric”, formed by 7,000 angled, silkscreened glass tiles, are a dramatic visual motif and also work as a peep-hole into and ou...
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