4 June

The picture below is the Maldives, tourist paradise and what the tourists have left behind. In tribute to Michel Serres, I coincidentally saw this paragraph from him the day he died: "Disguised under the label of tourism, the Third World War is covering the most beautiful sites in the world with shit, vendors and hideous noises...never visit Machu Picchu, or the pyramids of Egypt, or Ayers Rock in the centre of Australia; don't climb Mont Blanc, don't go to Mount Everest or the Côte d'Azur...Try and find anywhere the simple discrete beauty of a meadow or an unpretentious tree."