November 12, 2004
team baby seal!
quick recap, more to come including "rub and tug" and "get to soddery." I just had a huge chai latte, the whole thing, I'm wigging out! this is my favorite picture of the trip a self portrait in front of the sagrada familia :)
ofoto album
london 2 nights: ghost tour of alleys, westminster abbey, covent gardents, soho, china town, the theatre district, the tower of london, a bar on the thames
barcelona 2 nights: the house of lamb, sagrada familia, parc guell, and so much cool street art that I started deleting pictures off my camera
madrid 3 nights: I thought the belkin media reader wasn't working so I pulled off as many pictures as I could and deleted some off the camera and started taking pictures sparingly: los gabrieles and plaza mayor
valencia 3 nights: bars and street art
not pictured: TONS. reina sofia and retiro park in madrid, the park converted from a river in valencia,
Posted by sugi_grl at November 12, 2004 09:09 AM
also not pictured:
In Barcelona: 2 casas by Gaudi - La Pedrera (Casa Mila) - we took a tour of it, & Casa Batllo (we walked by it on our way to La Pedrera - opposite side of the street).
In Valencia: Mercado Colon (Colon Market), La Lonja (silk market - but we didn't go in, just walked by), Mercado Central (Central Market), La Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (City of Arts & Sciences) - which has the L'Hemisferic, Museo de Ciencies "Principe Felipe", & the L'Oceanografic - all designed by Santiago Calatrava.
And the river-park is called the Turia River Gardens - it's the old riverbed of the Turia river which once ran through the city (now diverted to the south of valencia). The gardens (riverbed) can be followed by foot or bicycle, there are sports facilities, bars (the most important), the Palau de Musica, and ends at the City of Arts & Sciences.
As I was walking around Valencia the day after you left I was like "DOH! I forgot to show them this" and "DOH! I forgot to show them that!" You'll just have to come back again! Yay!
Posted by: jendhi at November 17, 2004 05:10 AMoh yeah! and if you check out the album, view the slideshow to read/post comments about the photos! :)
Posted by: jendhi at November 17, 2004 05:19 AMand you got to see Guernica - modern art's most powerful antiwar statement!
On April 27th, 1937, unprecedented atrocities are perpetrated on behalf of Franco against the civilian population of a little Basque village in northern Spain. Chosen for bombing practice by Hitler's burgeoning war machine, the hamlet is pounded with high-explosive and incendiary bombs for over three hours. Townspeople are cut down as they run from the crumbling buildings. Guernica burns for three days. Sixteen hundred civilians are killed or wounded.
By May 1st, news of the massacre at Guernica reaches Paris, where more than a million protesters flood the streets to voice their outrage in the largest May Day demonstration the city has ever seen. Eyewitness reports fill the front pages of Paris papers. Picasso is stunned by the stark black and white photographs. Appalled and enraged, Picasso rushes through the crowded streets to his studio, where he quickly sketches the first images for the mural he will call Guernica.
Posted by: jendhi at November 24, 2004 02:54 AMRichie: Oh sod off! Go on, sod off! Get to soddery! It's all your fault.
Eddie: Sod off yourself, you great fat git! It's me that just lost ten thousand quid!
Richie: Well half of it was mine.
Eddie: It bloody well was not! D'you think I'm going to lie around the sun-drenched Caribbean with bus-fulls of dusky maidens fulfilling my every sordid whim and have a great fat blotchy white walrus lying next to me, blathering on and on about himself and spoiling the atmos.? No, I'm bloody not!
Richie: Well thank you very much Edward. You learn something every day, don't you? And today I learnt that you're a complete bastard.
:D
Posted by: jendhi at November 25, 2004 04:12 AM
