I’m back in London now, so I’ve had a play around with the photos and put some of the better ones (well I think so) in the photo gallery. And there’s also a cool movie I took from the Arc de Triomphe which show’s how crazy that bloody roundabout is! I’ll write a proper update about Barcelona and London, but at the moment it’s off to watch the tennis on tele!
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July 10th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
The photos are so beautiful. And there’s sunshine! Europe in my mind is a stunning, but very cold and grey place….
Ok my favourites are (in no particular order):
The one through the base of the Eye, looking towards the ground.
The candles inside Notre Dame
The ones inside La Sagrada Familia (I never went inside because of the queue).
Love the Arc de Triomphe vid. Driving from Paris to Girona, sis navigating, my Dad’s one instruction to her was to “avoid that roundabout @ all costs”. I have never ever seen such fear in anyone’s eyes as I did the moment he realised we were heading straight for it…
PS. If you saw a giant lion statue in the middle of a roundabout near the
“Docklands” area of Barcelona there, I have a photo sitting on top of it! I may have been clinging to Michael for dear life, but I didn’t fall off… Miraculous really.
There’s some awesome shots in there…. to you and that sexy camera, well done, they’re great
July 10th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Heh, nice one dude, I told you Europe was the place to be, what, that’s Victoria, wait a second.
Weather looks glorious too, unlike here, where if you took a still frame at the moment it would look great; deceitful bitch old mother weather. Its actually about 14C and windy as f**k. All of this impedes my enjoyment of my new toy - aSpecialized Stumpjumper :-D.
As for favourites - the green coutyard in Paris and the bridge, also in Paris, remind me the most of the feel of Europe, but I think that your construction site overview (Barcelona) is the best picture.
Oh, and “Beware of lamp post” is a cracker.
Finally, if you think the Arc de Triomphe traffic is bad, check this out. Never drive in the subcontinent. Ever. Don’t let anyone else drive you either. Walk or something. Climb on the outside of a train.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1605593095974048664&q=india+driving
Stay safe kiddies
~SST
July 11th, 2006 at 2:50 am
Hat’s off Midgley, finnaly some non drunken artsy photies to b very proud of, looks like the time taken to pay out that camera really sorted things out. Or maybe it’s just the gifted vision you have!
Also good to see that the finger thing does indeed run in the family and is genetic and not something that someone maybe able to “train” out of you one day!
SST is very right, weather does look great, enjoy it, upon return Melbourne’s weather will turn you as bitter as it is outside atm and make you pine for the warmth of European summer!
Remember: be good, and if you can’t be good, be damn good at it!
July 11th, 2006 at 5:42 am
Ohh, so nice to think you guys actually read/look at photos on this thing! Just a quick update to say that there are some more photos on my lovely girlfriend’s website here.
GeM we were staying near the Docklands part of Barcelona I think, that’s where the obscure statue of the guy pointing is, I think.
The “Beware of Lamp Post” one was on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong, where I had my photo taken with the palm-print of the famous Chow Yun Fat.
July 11th, 2006 at 8:34 am
OOOh you shouldn’t have shown us that. Hehe.
For the click-lazy; the happy duet.
July 11th, 2006 at 8:34 am
AAAh didn’t work. NM.
July 11th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Looks like you have having a wonderful time Williums! Stunning pictures…you have done well there. keep having fun, looking fowards to more exciting tales to keep me occupied!
July 11th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
Mmmhhmm… Yep, the lion statue was really close to the pointing dude, that’s why I was wondering if you’d noticed it….
Of course we read your blog, silly…
July 12th, 2006 at 7:57 am
Yeah there is a rant on the way, will be posted once I’ve run out of things to do and see in London…Just been on the HMS Belfast. Big Warship, Great Fun. It’s their motto, I’m sure!
I’m pretty sure that pointing dude is famous, significant other reckons its Colombus?
July 12th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
Google tells me she’s right
July 12th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
some how “big warship, great fun” isn’t the image of the british navy i get… well i tend to see a huge connection between one of those family guy sketches with stewie and the brittish navy… very gay!
as for the rant, i need to read some good rant action, not nearly enough rantage on this damned web log as one would have hoped… i’ll stop there dangerous close to a rant myself, and that subway incident was dangerously close to being weird!
July 12th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
I feel I need a rant as well, but I don’t get out enough lately to have anything to rant about.
Maybe I could rant about that.
July 13th, 2006 at 10:31 am
here’s some inspiration for somewhere to start… “You know what really grinds my gears…”
July 13th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Lack of appropriate lubrication?
Or high contact pressures due to innappropriate fits/incompatibility.
Or lack of care with the clutch.
July 13th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Sorry SST… get with the family guy program…
“Save your money, Tucker. This place doesn’t have porn. You know, that really grinds my gears. Where in the bible does it say that a man can’t fire off some knuckle-children in the privacy of his own neighbor’s living room while his neighbor’s at work because I don’t have a DVD player? Well, I don’t know where it says it because the Bible was way too long to read! ” - Peter Griffin
July 13th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Sorry SST… get with the family guy program…
“Save your money, Tucker. This place doesn’t have porn. You know, that really grinds my gears. Where in the bible does it say that a man can’t fire off some knuckle-children in the privacy of his own neighbor’s living room while his neighbor’s at work because I don’t have a DVD player? Well, I don’t know where it says it because the Bible was way too long to read! ” - Peter Griffin
July 13th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
sorry for the duplicate… or this
“You know what really grinds my gears? This Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay Lohan with all those little outfits, jumping around there on stage, half-naked with your little outfits. Ya know? You’re a… You’re out there jumping around and I’m just sitting here with my beer. So, what am I supposed to do? What you want? You know, are we gonna go out? Is that what you’re trying to - why why are you leaping around there, throwing those things all up in my, over there in my face? What do you want, Lindsay? Tell me what you want? Well, I’ll tell you what you want, you want nothing. You want nothing. All right? Because we all know that no woman anywhere wants to have sex with anyone, and to titillate us with any thoughts otherwise is - is just bogus. ”
Now that’s some high class rantage
July 13th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
OKOK, so I don’t like family guy.
In fact I’m seldom satisfied with comedy in general, but I was rather amused by the 5 minutes of The Simpsons I caught this evening. Espescially this:
Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys.
Lisa: They must have programmed it to eliminate the competition.
Bart: You mean like Microsoft?
Lisa: Exactly.
@aRnold. Nice one - 3 posts all begin sorry
. And “no worries”.
July 14th, 2006 at 9:18 am
SST, you don’t like Family Guy. I think I speak for all of us when I say: I’m not impressed.
July 16th, 2006 at 9:51 pm
That’s a quote eh?
Smartarse.