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<em>andytuba - A wandering Delawarean</em><p style='clear: right'>Having finished a Project 365, I'm shooting for even more fun and the occasional theme week when things are less fun. Also, I swear that this year I'll program some functional apps to use with ShutterCal!</p><p>Find me on Twitter at <a href='http://twitter.com/andytuba'>@andytuba</a></p>

Name:

Andy Tuba

Location:

Madison, WI, US

Gear:

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28
Moto Droid Cameraphone

Started On:

1/1/09 (Day 617)

About Me:

andytuba - A wandering Delawarean

Having finished a Project 365, I'm shooting for even more fun and the occasional theme week when things are less fun. Also, I swear that this year I'll program some functional apps to use with ShutterCal!

Find me on Twitter at @andytuba

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This fine walking stick was in a museum we visited in Barcelona while our friends were out at a football game. I think we saw more balls at this museum than they did at the stadium. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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Outside the Joan Miró museum in Barcelona on Mar 21 (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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The ramp for our flight out of Málaga, España to Charleroi, Belgium, to begin spring break! (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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Our first evening and morning we spent in Charleroi, since it was cheaper to fly into there than into Brussels proper. That place is damn ugly; we met a woman at an 'alternative youth information center' called USE-IT who showed us the 'Urban Safari' tour of Charleroi, because it's so damn ugly. Observe ugly. P.S. Merging photos for panoramas with cars = oops. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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As you walk into Grand Place, the main plaza of Brussels, you are confronted with the old City Hall, a Gothic monstrosity. I'm a fan. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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Grand Place at evening (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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Grand Place at night. P.S. Sorry I forgot the street lamp. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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The Atomium, outside of Brussels, is Belgium's version of the Eiffel Tower: a huge exhibition center built for a World Fair way back when. It's huge; also, there's a zipline jump to the ground from the very top (more than few stories up) called the 'Deathjump.' (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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Around the Rosenburg Castle in Copenhagen is the King's Garden (also called the Havn), which houses, amongst other things, a statue of Hans Christian Andersen (where old men play bocchi), a little playground featuring dragons, and several good climbing trees. Yes, I went to Denmark and climbed up a tree. This tree, however, is not the one I climbed; it is much prettier. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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City Hall of Stockholm, constructed to be both quite Swedish and quite in the style of an Italian palazzio (sp?) (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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The TV Tower in Stockholm, which has about a bajillion satellites and antennas; also, an observation deck up top whence you can an awful lot of the city of Stockholm. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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Walking along the bridges connecting the different islands of Stockholm. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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Although today I'm back in Granada, I'd still like to share with you some memories of this past week's spring break. All across northern Europe, we found fun statues and made ourselves into them. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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This statue was found in Skansen Open-Air Museum and Zoo in Copenhagen, near the brown bear habitat. We saw some brown bears tussling, but I'd rather cuddle with a bear. (I think that if I tussled, they'd probably tear my face off.) (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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As 2009 is the Year of the Cartoon in Brussels, all across the city can be found cartoon walls, where have been painted scenes from various cartoons as high as three stories! Additionally we found a few statues, like this sexy bicyclist. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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Although plenty of people are familiar with Mannekin Pis – the Little Boy Pissing, it's a statue in Brussels that people dress up in the middle of the night, you can buy postcards of him – not so many people know his sister. This little girl is over by the Delerium bar (which incidentally keeps a few thousand types of beer in stock) and, we were glad to see, was already pissing so early in the spring! Please don't blackmail me with this photo. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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Inside the Mezquita (Mosque) / Cathedral in Córdoba. This edifice was originally built as an Arabic mosque, but then the Reyes Católicos converted (or razed) every mosque they could find and made them cathedrals instead. So, what you're seeing here is original Moorish architecture with the Gothic / Catholic influence added later, as opposed to the Royal Palace in Sevilla, which was built for the Catholic reign by Moorish artisans. See here: both reigns. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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The piscina (bathing pool) under the entrance plaza of the Real Alcázar (Royal Palace) of Sevilla.

Funny story about this piscina: the vents you can see with light coming in from the sides lead up to the plaza itself. My friend Karen realized this while we were still up there, went over to investigate, and heard some people talking through the vents. Karen: 'Hmm...' She leans over the vent, prepares her gran pulmones (big lungs), and lets out a shriek like no banshee could conjure up down the air vent. She couldn't stop giggling for a good five minutes. I hope nobody fell in the pool, but they did applaud her afterwards. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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At the Plaza de España, where they filmed part of Star Wars II (not the second movie, but Episode II). We kinda recognized it. Cool plaza, I mean place anyway. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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Back in Granada, I live a few blocks away from the Parque de F. Garcia Lorca, where we visit to hang out sometimes. Every time I pass by, I see workers from the Friends of Garcia Lorca working on the park to reinvigorate the landscaping after the winter. Nonetheless, you can still see touches of the cold although spring has arrived. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

Although the spring comes, you can see still the touches of winter in the untilled fields. Every day I've walked past the park, I've seen the workers from the Friends of Garcia Lorca fixing up the place; less and less winter and more and more greenery every time. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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TThe Friends of Garcia Lorca work hard to clean their park. Although some of the fields have yet to wear new flowers and there are fountains full of algae, more and more of the park is clean and green every time I pass by. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)
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Here in the Parque de F. Garcia Lorca, we always have the 'decorative grass' where lots of college kids come to sit. The cops come around and kick everybody off the grass every day around 5pm, though. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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Sig heil, puppy! (For more giggles in this vein, look at tomorrow's photo!) This is a golden retriever puppy that our host brother's father had in a litter of six that he was breeding. (Yes, host brother's father – Maricarmen and he have been divorced for twenty years and change, so she doesn't even call him 'my ex-husband,' but 'Albert's father.') Incidentally, this is a floor shot of my bed and junk. Since this is the damn cutest puppy ever, I'll show you some more on Saturday. (CoolPix S210).

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Hitler Kitty! (For more giggles in this vein, check out yesterday's photo.) This cat lives outside the Ruta de García Lorca, his family's old summer home around which is built the Parque de García Lorca. They put out some food and water bowls for him by a tree next to the house. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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Here's that golden retriever again. She's a cutie, and she sold for 300€. I brought over a few friends to play with her before Alberto took her to her new owner, though, so we all sat around the TV room and fawned over the puppy for an hour. I took 653 photos over the course of 45 minutes. Here's one of the more Renaissance-y ones: note the triangle! Sorry about the low image quality, though; auto mode was compensating for the low light levels. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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Yes, as spring comes, I've been going to the park just about every day. So are the Friends of Garcia Lorca, tending the gardens. (CoolPix S210)

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Yes, you've seen this fountain before. Yay F Garcia Lorca Parque (CoolPix S210)

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The main drag of the Parque de F Garcia Lorca (CoolPix S210)

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The best wifi in town can be found for free at the Huerta de Lorca, one of the cafés inside the park. (CoolPix S210)

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We took a long weekend trip – me, my friend Laura, my roommate Akin, and his friend Rodrigro from Brazil – to Lagos, Portugal, the best beach town ever. (Lumix DMC-FZ28)

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