Colourful walkway in the Old City of Baku, Azerbaijan, March 2017
These umbrellas lined an arched walkway leading to a charming hotel that I stayed in. Fancy going to all that trouble for my arrival!
Baku is a windy place and a few days later a very forceful pounding turned most of these umbrellas inside out or else removed them from the scene completely.
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A colorful note: eggplant colour is a brownish-purple shade, named after the eggplant, or aubergine as it is called in much of Europe.
The fruit was named eggplant after being discovered by English explorers in Asia – the ones they found were small and white and looked like eggs. As this suggests, aubergines come in many colours, even if the ones we usually find in a supermarket tend to match the Crayola interpretation.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 4 April 2017
Posted as part of Color Your World
Travel with Intent 
This puts me in mind of similar brollies in Turkey a few years ago!
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Interesting. There’s very close linguistic links between Azerbaijan and Turkey.
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Genetic links, surely….
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Loved the use of brollies, another term I’ve learned now!
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I thought that might be rather English!
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Definitely looking tired. I don’t know how long they had been there – it is a permanently windy city so I suspect they had only been in place for the 4 week Spring Holiday period.
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They definitely look well weathered, Debs, but very charming. 🙂 🙂 And I love that colour.
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How interesting that it was English explorers who named it eggplant, yet that is now the American name and we call it aubergine!
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Yes, strange. It looks as though we went upmarket and added un peu de francais!
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