Back at it, finally, after a well deserved break. See my similarly titled new article (All Roads) in Monday’s Souciant. Last week’s piece, No Navigation Required, is still fresh, and, of course, thematically tied. New photos featured, as well as some older ones, some of which have already appeared here.

Central Zurich. En route to Torino from Stuttgart, Sunday.

Anti-immigration poster, Zurich rest stop. August, 2011.

For more, see Popular Culture in Switzerland.

C’mon guys. An advertisement for a Futurism exhibition next to an anti-immigration poster? It’s almost too obvious. Lugano, October 2010.

On Thursday, Iran and the United States held their first formal diplomatic discussions in thirty years. Convened in Geneva, the hope behind the meetings was to defuse further conflict between the West and the Islamic Republic.

Writing for France 24, I explain what the larger significance of the gathering was, focusing on its use, by the Obama administration, to combat criticisms of its attitude towards Israel, as well as its significance for other Mideast states.

Check it out.

Zurich was full of surprises. We’d just watched Accatone, too.

Read the fine print. Anti-fascist flyer, Bologna, one week later.

It looks like a promo pic from classic hip-hop record. The kind the publicist used to slide in the sleeve of a 12″. These Haredim look so positively lost in their own thoughts, they might as well be stoned.

What these poor guys were doing sporting their Sunday best (not quite, but you get the idea) on a May day in which temperatures reached well past 100 fahrenheit in Zurich is beyond me.