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Posted on March 4, 2006 @ 6:34 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals, beach, blog, travel, wordpress

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Insects are familiar to long term travellers. These sort of folks usually travel on a shoestring and never care too much of comforts, since their only goal is keep on moving. No matter where once sleeps or eats: lousy pension houses and cheap restaurants, are part of everyday life. Quality is often abandoned in the name of economy: saving money is the basic require not to get back home soon! So it happens to be waken up late at night by cockroaches peacefully going for a stroll on your shoulders, as I had the pleasure to experience at Maharaja Palace, which -despite the name-, was a third class Tokyo pension house. I don’t like to talk here about the bloody itching bedbugs in dirty mattresses and bedding cause; nor about the mosquito-spread disease called dengue fever which affected me in the Indonesian islands of Nias and Bali…Really it all happened not by chance! But let me warn you on sand flies. These are actually the most subtle and nasty insects of the whole because they bite hard and make the unaware and relaxed beachcomber (who survived the cockroaches and the like) jump frantically, while innocently lying on the talcum powder surface of the beach…

Illustration friday’s topic is insect

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just wonderful! you have all the elements to make a great illo! you captured the anguish on the guy’s face, the patterns, textures and colours are sublime! Your work always makes me feel good even if the suject makes me itch!

valgalart wrote on March 4, 2006 - 8:46 pm CET

your description was perfectly illustrated.

i love the shorts by the way!

isay wrote on March 4, 2006 - 8:55 pm CET

You made this funny though I bet at the time it wasn’t!

Great expression on the guy’s face!

Caroline wrote on March 4, 2006 - 10:56 pm CET

Ha! Not so manly when the bug are biting. Great illo.
love

The Unknown wrote on March 4, 2006 - 11:16 pm CET

Well drawn illustration of the actual moment when one has been bitten by these nasty flies. I love the blue flappers.

Katili wrote on March 6, 2006 - 12:05 am CET

Great capture. I’ve had that exact same feeling at some ‘nicer’ hotels.

Tony Sarrecchia wrote on March 6, 2006 - 3:11 am CET

Yikes! Guess its time to head back into the water. As usual, cool style you have there.

don lee wrote on March 7, 2006 - 4:46 pm CET

le tue illustrazioni sono molto belle! sono passata spesso da qui ma non ho mai lasciato un saluto e ora credo sia arrivato il momento! :) bravo. well done, keep going!

fiordizucca wrote on March 7, 2006 - 10:24 pm CET

You remind me the worst hotel I found in my early travels it was in Istambul the Sultanamet hotel in Sultanamet to access to the toilet you had to wear boots ….unbelivable ! Great description of the chip charlies struggle !

adventure chef gino wrote on March 8, 2006 - 7:33 am CET

This is very nice! Humourous.
I don’t normally like insects and I think sandflies are probably amongst my most hated!:-)
I do love dragonfly, firefly and grasshopper..oh and beetles too!

I love it when you combine your travel tales with illos. It links art to life - the way it should be!

Nx

Ninetta wrote on March 9, 2006 - 11:53 am CET

Oh, yes, I have been warned of those invisible little buggers before! I am lucky though. It seems, that as long as I am travelling with someone, the insects will always pick that other someone to attack and not me.
The armpit hair of that fellow is just hilarious. Great illustration!

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