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May The parking attendant’s services include covering your windshield with a piece of cardboard so that the car doesn’t get too hot in the sun.  The dove of peace monument is holding an actual tree branch in its beak.  No one uses the payphone booths.  Everyone calls from private phones operated by shopkeepers.  An advertisement for a cellular company.  A license plate.  A post box.  The post office is closed on the weekends, so an enterprising vendor sells postcards and stamps outside in the street.  A street cart with bottled milk beverages.  A homeless man.  A woman selling vegetables.  The mannequins have come out onto the second floor.  Children.  A pedestrian.  The train is absolutely lovely.  No stopping.  A digger and an illustration of a condom being put on to protect against AIDS.  A trash can in the capital.  Street name signs.  Taxis must always have an orange roof.  All the streets in West African cities are designed in the same manner: concrete gutters are built on both sides of the street and covered with concrete slabs. If needed, the slabs can be quickly removed to service the gutter.  Exit to the sea.  Among the things that are undoubtedly wonderful in Togo are these French traffic lights from the 1980s, which look like Wall-E’s eyes.  As well as other French exotica.  There are also directional signs from the same era as the traffic lights. This type of sign is now all but gone in France itself (it can still be found in Algiers), but at one point they were extremely fashionable, and a few like this were even put up in Moscow right before the Olympic games.  Togo has plenty of crucifixes in public places.  A map of the country, more or less to scale.  |
