A Jew, a Muslim, an Atheist, and I spent a grey day on the Black Sea.

I know it sounds like the beginning of some hackneyed joke, but this is a true story.  After two hours on a bus we arrived in a tiny seaside town with a name that either doesn’t exist or isn’t widely known to find this:



Not ugly by any means, but no Beach Blanket Bingo either.  We sat under a lonely tree for an hour, watching the fishermen struggle in the drizzle with their mostly nonexistent catches.  Every so often one paused and proceeded to cough as if drowning, then tried in vain to light a cigarette.  After two teas (roughly forty five minutes) we left the beach and went for an aimless walk through town, on which we found this:




And at that point, everyone was sure of his own god.  Except the Atheist, of course, who ate a sandwich that he had packed and then took a brief nap.


 

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