Alone in such a vast expanse of water, Moussambani made for a peculiar sight, but set off at a fair old clip.
I'm told that this burger has been smothered with pulled pork, which intrigues me greatly, but on my way there my attention is diverted by a peculiar sight: a store ominously titled the Freedom Wine Cellar.
The first time I witnessed this — and it's a peculiar sight, this large man bent over and up to his elbows in a black plastic sack of discarded foodstuffs — I was the unwitting object of his investigation.
It must have been a peculiar sight: a US soldier, his hands and clothes pockmarked with black silver nitrate, hunkered beneath the dark-cloth of a 5x4 field camera in a war zone in Afghanistan.
It is a peculiar sight in Stanley, population roughly 1,200, one in a constellation of isolated and, in some cases, shrinking farm towns along North Dakota's wide open western edge where few residents recall a traffic jam.
She was a peculiar sight to behold even by the infamous standards of the New York underground, this ethereal former ballerina with Botticelli features, oversized hazel eyes and highlighted blond tresses going to town on her harmonica.
Batali, it turns out, pops up from time to time to go through the kitchen trash and make sure that nothing good is being thrown out: The first time I witnessed this — and it's a peculiar sight, this large man bent over and up to his elbows in a black plastic sack of discarded foodstuffs — I was the unwitting object of his investigation.
The throngs of tourists visiting the September 11 Memorial and Battery Park often pause to stop at a peculiar sight at 103 Washington Street: a skinny church-like structure with intricate terra-cotta that gives an outsized monumental impression.
Then again, if he or anyone else had given the door leading into the walkways a good shove during these episodes, they'd have been faced with a peculiar sight.
