Mark Wilcox shared this pic of a map covered suitcase that he spies at the Classic exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC. It’s sitting on top of a classic red mini which takes me back to my teens, mine was yellow.
I guess the pun is intended with another very local alcohol well-known in the Alps; for reference here is the article about the Génépi
In a coffee joint at the central railway station in Utrecht, the Netherlands, they indicate from what direction the raw material originally comes from. But seen from Utrecht: Sumatra is not quite in the west, and neither are Kenya, Ethiopia etc.
Good old empirical K.u.K. mapping… Always so anaesthetically pleasing and technically fascinating – Goldberggletscher 1909 Austria sighted University of Zurich
