The Kelv Enthusiast: Baldovgya
I drew this picture of Kelv’s third-largest city from a hotel room window in Oct. 2003. In a country where the arts are mostly ignored, it’s not hard to be considered a cultural city.
For this reason Baldovgya is known as “The Paris of Central North-Eastern Kelv”
Travelers expecting to experience the cosmopolitan wonder of turn-of-the-century Baldovgya will be disappointed. Today it’s a city of desolate alleys and industrial outskirts. You would really have to permeate the local scene to discover it’s underbelly of poets and painters. This is more difficult than it sounds since less than 8% of the Kelvic population speaks English.
Nevertheless, Baldovgya is a city of beautiful decaying architecture and mostly tolerable coastal climates.
**What the hell is this all about? It’s an excerpt from my upcoming magazine piece “The Kelv Enthusiast” to be published in Mammal Magazine, Spring 2007. Tune in for details.
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