Posted in Photos, Travels, belgium, tagged Brussels, Mini Europe, models, vampires on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just in case you were beginning to think that maybe mini-Europe wasn’t as tacky as you thought it was, consider this next picture.
This is part of the Romanian exhibit:
And yes that is Dracula.
Let’s ignore the fact that Romania is one of the only countries in eastern europe that doesn’t have a vampire myth….
Posted in Photos, Travels, belgium, tagged Brussels, Mini Europe, models on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life is good for the people of Mini-Europe.
There you can see people from all walks of life living together peacefully and in harmony, it’s a regular mini-Utopia.
And who are the people of mini-Europe?
Well, there’s the newly-weds:
The older married couple:
Cliff-divers:
And Extreme sportsmen
Boy-racers
and single-mothers
Not forgetting shady dealings down by the dock….
Posted in Photos, Travels, tagged Brussels, Mini Europe, models on October 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Look at the picture of the leaning tower of Pisa in the previous post, if you look very carefully you just might see the person below hanging out.
This is the main reason why Mini-Europe stopped being tacky and became exciting.
While others were trying to get pictures of themselves beside famous landmarks, I was looking closer, looking at [...]
Posted in Photos, Travels, belgium, tagged Brussels, Mini Europe, models on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Take a trip to Brussels and you never need to go to any other European country, it’s all there for you. All there in Mini-Europe.
Mini-Europe, a different type of theme park with buildings and sights from all over Europe and each time a country joins the EU, they get added to Mini-Europe, isn’t that sweet?
Was [...]
Posted in Photos, Travels, belgium, tagged Atomium, Brussels on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not really excited by old buildings anymore not when new buildings are so much more fun!
This particular gem was designed and built for the 1958 Universal Exhibition.
And was built to resemble an iron crystal, isn’t it beautiful?
Posted in Art, Photos, belgium, tagged Brussels on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I initially wasn’t too excited by Brussels, they don’t even have any proper graffiti but then I noticed that while they don’t do graffiti they do seem to paint walls and shutters a lot:
Another shutter of the same shop:
I’m not sure what this painting is about but they seem happy:
And just off the Grand Place [...]
Posted in Photos, The Netherlands on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Life, Speaking on October 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“So? How was your weekend? What did you do?” He asks me.
“I took part in a humorous speaking competition”
“Ohhhhh and what was the topic of your speech”
“Dressing up in drag”, I replied.
“I don’t understand”
“You know, dressing up in women’s clothing, that type of thing”
He looked like he really didn’t understand but for entirely new reasons and [...]
Posted in Photography, Photos on October 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Posted in Life, Photos, The Netherlands on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow I talk about being a woman (again), it’s a practice run for the big event on Saturday – the Area Contest where I get up and talk about being a woman to total strangers. God only knows what type of impression I’m going to give while camping it up on stage! I have a [...]
