Snap 1. Young Japanese man in clean fishing hat, his face midway between a smile and a look which might be disgust, as he is offered a pasty by a smiling chubby woman in a white coat, her face reddened from cooking steam.
Snap 2. 4 young Japanese, 2 female, 2 male, each wearing a clean fishing hat, looking about them wonderingly or with surprise, holding sideways bulky white bags, each rising in a curve, similar to a paper dosa
Snap 3 from same group, 1 male, 1 female, eating french bread pizza, the paper bags looking battered but not yet empty
Snap 4 another 4 shot - single track railway / terminus / a one vehicle train - in summer all the platform will smell of wild garlic. They are standing, looking. The conductor regards them inscrutably from the train. Each of them is eating a french bread pizza.
Snap 5 - wide format - 3 of the Japanese are climbing the hill from the train station to the bus station, laughing, one gesturing, crushed paper bag in one hand, pizza hunk in the other. In the top centre, a train is rounding a headland beneath a bridge
Snap 6 - similar to Snap 2. Concrete hilltop platform to receive buses. They are watched by a man in a yellow jacket. He is there all the time. In the winter he wears gloves. It is his job to say "I don't know" to passengers' questions. Sometimes he argues about what time it is with drivers. This place is called the Malakoff. It is called that because that is its name.
Snap 7 - 2 groups of 2, different pairing to Snap 2. One still has a whole slice of french bread pizza. The others watch him.
A local regards them all. He looks angry and suspicious, and a little fierce. He is almost round. He looks a little oriental. On his head is a woolly hat which rises in vertical stripes from his ears to where a spire or cross or weather-cock might be in the middle of his head, broken half way up by a horizontal band; the shape is of a large jelly mould. He embraces a cased cello.
Snap 8 - the four, scattered across a car park, holding shreds of paper bags, bewildered, worried. In the centre, a railway station and glimpses of four platforms. To one side of it, on a single track, between two platforms, a one vehicle train, stopped short of the end of the line. In front of it, a train conductor, watching them.
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