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A Tale of Three Cities

Posted in Spain, tagged , , on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Salamanca
There’s something magical about the name Salamanca and I think it was merely the name that drew me there, I had no map or even any idea what I should see, so instead I wandered through streets filled with yellow stone buildings.
The streets and alleys are filled with tourists, some even with maps and looking [...]

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Seeing Double

Posted in Under My Skin on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Me and my cruel doppelganger are hardly on good terms these days, the problem is that we see eye-to-eye but while he never says a word, he still manages to convey truths I really don’t want to see or hear, it’s been a long time since either of us has had a wink or a smile for [...]

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Guggenheim 4

Posted in Photos, tagged , , on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Guggenheim 3

Posted in Photos, tagged , , on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Visiting

Posted in Misc, Spain, Travels on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“Come in, come in, for you pink bedsheets and a pink towel, and you’ll be staying in the room with the teddy-bear wallpaper”
Later.
“Have you seen my new jacket, isn’t it great? Oh you must see my new shoes, I don’t know when I’ll ever wear them but I just HAD to buy them, they’re soooooo beauuuutifulll.”
Later [...]

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Guggenheim 2

Posted in Photos, tagged , , on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Guggenheim 1

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Knock, knock said the elevator

Posted in Books, tagged , on April 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It was the quote on the cover that attracted me, it said:
“The most bizarre, prfound and beautiful novel I’ve read in a long, long time”
And it certainly is bizarre and once I started reading the book I understood exactly why Michael Marshall Smith would have enjoyed it, because while it has some episodes of Douglas [...]

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Where? Why? What?

Posted in Art, Travels, tagged , , on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The world seems to be broken up into two kinds of people – those who know about the Guggenheim in Bilbao and those who don’t.
The second group have trouble understanding my reasons for coming here, some don’t even know where Bilbao is, some never considered going to Spain for anything but a beach holiday and [...]

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If it’s Tuesday then I must be in…

Posted in Life, Under My Skin on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Tuesday – total panic-attack over the big move to the Netherlands, pretty much talked myself of going and decided to stay in Ireland instead.
Wednesday – Chinese food, need I say any more?
Thursday – Last day of work and it was as jam-packed with nothingness as all others but despite it all, it was hard to [...]

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