Chronicle – A scent of the tropics

a week in the tropics
March 20, 2013

Richard Juhlin

Home again in a surreal winter landscape. My last ‘blue’ text about the frozen nose and odorless Nordic winter life feels if possible, even more appropriate, as I just returned from a week in the tropics. Tropics by the way, does anyone use that word anymore? Or is it a relic of colonial times or Tintin-magazines? I happened to find the anachronistic word in my cerebral cortex, and it sounded stylish seep out when I was at Tiger of Sweden and got equiped before this particular trip when Ragni began to moan with laughter and said giggling that our 23-year age difference probably shows sometimes anyway.

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