Umayyad Mosque
A remarkably relaxed place, unless you're a foreign woman and mind having to wear a brownish hooded robe to get in. People were playing, wandering about with ice-creams and sleeping in the shade - all presumably offenses punishable by excommunication in Westminster Abbey or Westminster Cathedral. Nice carpets, too.
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It's weird how sleeping (something we do like for a third of our lives) is so verboten in public places.
I regularly used to have a kip at Liverpool Street station. It's like a gloomy gothic Cathedral at night (or it was 'til they put in the unecessary and intrusive mezzanine floor for retail outlets) - They won't let you sleep there anymore.....
Seems OK in parks. Probably more of us should try it, to wrest it back into the bounds of acceptability, as an antidote to the business of busy-ness. Do you trust your surroundings enough?
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