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A collection of some of the best reads from the BBC News website this week, with an injection of your comments.A collection of some of the best reads from the BBC News website this week, with an injection of your comments.
Gunther Holtorf travelled across 179 countries with his car Otto in the mother of all road trips. It took 26 years. In this epic piece, he describes the emptiness of deserts, the smell of tension in Kabul, entering Cuba with the help of a Castro, and the loss of his wife. He has had malaria eight times but prefers to focus on the positive. Fourth wife Christine was his travelling partner and urged him to continue after she had gone. They covered just under 700,000km (430,000 miles) together and he clocked up another 200,000km (125,000 miles) with her son. In China, Mercedes helped with the "ridiculous cost" of the paperwork, and in North Korea, roads were cleared, escorts were organised and every police officer was provided with a picture of their vehicle. Gunther eventually made it home to Germany and Otto is now a museum piece in Stuttgart. This is the romantic tale of one car's outrageous travels.Gunther Holtorf travelled across 179 countries with his car Otto in the mother of all road trips. It took 26 years. In this epic piece, he describes the emptiness of deserts, the smell of tension in Kabul, entering Cuba with the help of a Castro, and the loss of his wife. He has had malaria eight times but prefers to focus on the positive. Fourth wife Christine was his travelling partner and urged him to continue after she had gone. They covered just under 700,000km (430,000 miles) together and he clocked up another 200,000km (125,000 miles) with her son. In China, Mercedes helped with the "ridiculous cost" of the paperwork, and in North Korea, roads were cleared, escorts were organised and every police officer was provided with a picture of their vehicle. Gunther eventually made it home to Germany and Otto is now a museum piece in Stuttgart. This is the romantic tale of one car's outrageous travels.
Gunther, Christine and Otto: A love storyGunther, Christine and Otto: A love story
Perfect lightPerfect light
The grain of everyday life is captured in the photographs of Edwin Smith. The celebrated photographer, who died in 1971, enjoyed a cloudy day's subtle quality of light and turned his camera backwards whilst all around him were concerned with rapid change. He spotted the texture in a nettle ravaged bench, the beauty in a smog drenched landscape, and the glow of white shirts drying. In this photofilm, the co-curator of "Ordinary Beauty", an exhibition of Smith's work at the Royal Institute of British Architects, takes a look through some of the pictures on display. The grain of everyday life is captured in the photographs of Edwin Smith. The celebrated photographer, who died in 1971, enjoyed a cloudy day's subtle quality of light and turned his camera backwards whilst all around him were concerned with rapid change. He spotted the texture in a nettle-ravaged bench, the beauty in a smog-drenched landscape, and the glow of white shirts drying. In this film, the co-curator of "Ordinary Beauty", an exhibition of Smith's work at the Royal Institute of British Architects, takes a look through some of the pictures on display.
Ordinary beauty - Edwin Smith's striking photographsOrdinary beauty - Edwin Smith's striking photographs
The obsessive sneezerThe obsessive sneezer
After idly thinking how many times one might sneeze in a lifetime, Peter Fletcher decided to start counting. That was 2007 and now he has a diary filled with the details of over 4,000 sneezes. "Sneeze number 4,014. Kitchen. Moderate. Looking at broccoli." It has provided him with a series of mundane snapshots of his life; details usually left out of diaries. He initially did not include comments about what he was doing, just the location and the intensity of the sneeze. But an encounter with a quiche during sneeze number 42 made him realise that maybe those descriptions were the point of the exercise. He has a good online following, eager to hear about his latest sternutation, and says he will continue for the rest of his life. Edwin Anthony on Facebook says "Sneezespotting. How interesting". Marc McAdam says "I bet his Mrs is ecstatic". After idly thinking how many times one might sneeze in a lifetime, Peter Fletcher decided to start counting. That was 2007 and now he has a diary filled with the details of more than 4,000 sneezes. "Sneeze number 4,014. Kitchen. Moderate. Looking at broccoli." It has provided him with a series of mundane snapshots of his life; details usually left out of diaries. He initially did not include comments about what he was doing, just the location and the intensity of the sneeze. But an encounter with a quiche during sneeze number 42 made him realise that maybe those descriptions were the point of the exercise. He has a good online following, eager to hear about his latest sternutation, and says he will continue for the rest of his life. Edwin Anthony on Facebook says "Sneezespotting. How interesting". Marc McAdam says "I bet his Mrs is ecstatic".
The man who records all his sneezesThe man who records all his sneezes
Moments of truthMoments of truth
A makeshift church, the junk of war and the faces of those deployed to fight are all featured in a series of photographs by Robert Wilson. In Afghanistan as an artist, not a journalist, he used the kind of camera he would normally use for celebrities in a studio. He brought his skills as a commercial photographer, using similar production processes to get especially sharp, high contrast and harsh images of life in Helmand. He tried to photograph recognisable things, to humanise the scenes and to make them look less remote. Some of these images will be displayed on huge billboards across Britain with no captions or information, only a single QR code (like a barcode) if people want to find out more.A makeshift church, the junk of war and the faces of those deployed to fight are all featured in a series of photographs by Robert Wilson. In Afghanistan as an artist, not a journalist, he used the kind of camera he would normally use for celebrities in a studio. He brought his skills as a commercial photographer, using similar production processes to get especially sharp, high contrast and harsh images of life in Helmand. He tried to photograph recognisable things, to humanise the scenes and to make them look less remote. Some of these images will be displayed on huge billboards across Britain with no captions or information, only a single QR code (like a barcode) if people want to find out more.
Bringing the front line to UK streetsBringing the front line to UK streets
Magazine monitorMagazine monitor
In the Magazine Monitor our love of OS maps is explored after a Nobel Prize-winner said it was one of three things which attracted him to the UK. On Facebook Tim Lamb said his three would be Yorkshire, tea and crumpets, and Alison Marrs suggested manners, London and the National Trust.In the Magazine Monitor our love of OS maps is explored after a Nobel Prize-winner said it was one of three things which attracted him to the UK. On Facebook Tim Lamb said his three would be Yorkshire, tea and crumpets, and Alison Marrs suggested manners, London and the National Trust.
There is also the story of a rogue priest in Myanmar, Small Data looks into the loss of half the world's animals and Operation How Is A Military Code Name Chosen is go. There is also the story of an alleged rogue priest in Myanmar, Small Data looks into the loss of half the world's animals and Operation How Is A Military Code Name Chosen is go.
Here are some things we've enjoyed this week from elsewhere around the web:Here are some things we've enjoyed this week from elsewhere around the web:
Lauren Child: how we made Charlie and Lola - The GuardianLauren Child: how we made Charlie and Lola - The Guardian
Nobody knows what running looks like - The AtlanticNobody knows what running looks like - The Atlantic
First Ebola, now Marburg. Here's why deadly viruses are on the rise in Africa - QuartzFirst Ebola, now Marburg. Here's why deadly viruses are on the rise in Africa - Quartz
The forgotten female programmers who created modern tech - NPRThe forgotten female programmers who created modern tech - NPR
The evolution of movie chase scenes - SlateThe evolution of movie chase scenes - Slate
Is it possible to be both nice and anonymous online? - New York MagazineIs it possible to be both nice and anonymous online? - New York Magazine
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