Taking the scenic route home

Took the scenic route home tonight. This takes a bit longer than the usual route, but it's worth it for the great views of the Seine and the Eiffel Tower from the Pont Alexandre III.
In life, it can be rewarding too, to take the longer route, get off the beaten track, do something atypical or out of character.

The mighty fist of oppression

Me in front of Liu Bolin's Iron Fist sculpture.

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Regional/2014/03/06/Art-with-a-punch-Chinas-Liu-Bolin/.

A Tayport Poem

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Pillars

This morning arriving at work I saw a Chinese guy doing the old Jean-Claude Van Damme deal on one of the pillars in the passageway which leads into the site. Hitting the pillar with his bare hands. No thin wooden spar this either, we're talking solid concrete. I wonder how long it would take to wear it down and break the pillar? And then how many pillars would you have to break before the roof fell in? Samson would have the place down in a jiffy. This passageway seems to attract a lot of eccentrics - guys juggling balls (narrow passageway with a low roof, ideal place to juggle, but the guy was getting round this by bouncing them off the ground) or girls' dance groups (I think they make use of a big mirror at one end of the passageway). Then there's the rest of use, just trudging in to work.

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Tahir Shah's wikipedia page in French

I helped translate this (from English into French):
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahir_Shah