Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 56

Is this a good place to have breakfast? “Christian diner «God will provide»”… No, don’t think so!

So we decided to go around the village using a (much) smaller, agricultural road.

The windshield wiper was a bit broken… Stopped to put it back in together

At Templo de Santo Domingo, Puebla. Photo by Octavio “Octagesimal”.

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