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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
SouthPark version of me
Here I am in Prague enjoying a nice Czech beer. Mmmm
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The Cows Have Come Home
Or at least they have come to Florence. Yes, Cows everywhere. There was some art festival going on that consisted of getting one of the 3 versions of a cow and decorating it to your heart's content. Here are some of the more memorable and just plain weird ones for your viewing pleasure.
The actual titles are in Italian, and in the parenthesis I have included what I like to call them :) Click on the pic to see better detail in a new window.
Mucca in Citta (Cow in the City)
Eccentrice (Blacklight Art Cow)
I call this the Butcher Cow - couldn't find the actual name of it but I think I am pretty close.
Galattofonte (Boob Cow - the face. Love the lactating action)
Boob Cow, the body.
In Love (Hand & Butthole Cow)
Apparently this one needed protection from the Italians ... not sure why exactly.
Moo Jeans (They hit the spot with this name)
Caro Mucca (Road Sign Cow)
Again, no name for this one since it was blown off of it's stand by the freezing arctic winds.
I call it Muscle Cow.
Muzzz....le (Puzzle Cow)
Newgenetic Cow (Twin Fetus Cow)
No name for this, but come on...
Cheese Cow!!
At this point I was freezing so I snapped a picture of all three of these and didn't get their official names. But I call them Day of the Dead Cow, Radioactive Cow, and Landscape Cow.
The End
So as you can see, the cows have clearly come home. Weather we wanted them to or not.
The actual titles are in Italian, and in the parenthesis I have included what I like to call them :) Click on the pic to see better detail in a new window.
Mucca in Citta (Cow in the City)
Eccentrice (Blacklight Art Cow)
I call this the Butcher Cow - couldn't find the actual name of it but I think I am pretty close.
Galattofonte (Boob Cow - the face. Love the lactating action)
Boob Cow, the body.
In Love (Hand & Butthole Cow)
Apparently this one needed protection from the Italians ... not sure why exactly.
Moo Jeans (They hit the spot with this name)
Caro Mucca (Road Sign Cow)
Again, no name for this one since it was blown off of it's stand by the freezing arctic winds.
I call it Muscle Cow.
Muzzz....le (Puzzle Cow)
Newgenetic Cow (Twin Fetus Cow)
No name for this, but come on...
Cheese Cow!!
At this point I was freezing so I snapped a picture of all three of these and didn't get their official names. But I call them Day of the Dead Cow, Radioactive Cow, and Landscape Cow.
The End
So as you can see, the cows have clearly come home. Weather we wanted them to or not.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Ahh Florence
After Rome I was off to Florence. With a little bit more travel time than I had hoped. I think this break has been the traveling of complications. It was supposed to be a quick train ride to the Rome airport, then a nice fast 55 min flight into Florence. At first all seems to be going well. I get to the airport and check my bag and proceed to the gate. We get delayed one hour - no biggie I thought. We get on our plane and are off on the flight to Florence. The captain comes on and says we are about to begin our decent. The plane starts to go down ... then it levels off ... then it starts to go UP! Wait, wrong direction! I'm no pilot but I am pretty sure decent means down.
He comes on the radio again and says that the Florence airport is too foggy and that he can't land. So he is going to go to the nearby Pisa airport and try to land there. Ok, so I'll just catch a train back to Florence I thought. Well when we get above the Pisa airport he comes on the radio again and says that we can't land here either because the airport is too full - there is no room for us. Everyone else who was supposed to fly into Florence also went to Pisa, and now we are just SOL. So what do we do?? Fly back to Rome, yes, back to the "point A" of this whole thing.
We get to Rome and have to all go and get our bags (after waiting forever for them to come out on the baggage thingy) then we have to go to the ticket counter and all get our tickets refunded. After that long ordeal of waiting around and starving I finally break free to get a bag of chips. Then they load us all onto a bus bound for Florence. It is a 3+ hour bus ride, which started off with a little kid throwing up in the back of the bus. Just lovely.
I get to my hotel and get my room key and am expecting the little single room with a twin bed that I booked online. But to my surprise I get a suite! A California King bed, a chandelier over the bed, a huge bathroom (esp by European standards) and each in a separate room with a little hallway in between. Very nice. Needless to say I was exhausted and just crashed there for the night. But the next day I went out into the city and saw..... these!!
Fiume River
Bridge over Fiume River
Statues at end of bridge
Fiume River with Ponte Vecchio bridge in background
Ponte Vecchio
Scooters!
Palazzo Vecchio
Church towers from top floor of Uffizi Gallery
Uffizi Gallery with Palazzo Vecchio at end
The David (well a copy of where the real one once stood. I did see the real one and it was amazing ... but they didn't allow cameras. And I couldn't sneak a pic with my huge D-70)
Close-up shot of horses in a fountain sculpture in front of Palazzo Vecchio
Street in Florence
Duomo
View from the top - I had to climb 400+ stairs for this one! No elevators.
Ahh, the view.
S. Maria Novella church
Snow over the city! It started snowing when I was out seeing the sights. This view is from Piazzale Michelangelo.
Snow and a Mini behind an even minier car along a street next to the Arno River.
View of Florence - Bella.
These are pictures of my fabulous hotel room.
And as you may know of my troubles leaving Florence from a previous blog entry... here is a pic of the snow in Florence out of the train window to Rome.
Coming up next is a real specialty. There was an art exhibit going on throughout the city of Florence when I was there and I captured some of the most interesting pieces on film. What is it you ask? Well stay tuned to find out... I will just say it involves an animal. hehehe
He comes on the radio again and says that the Florence airport is too foggy and that he can't land. So he is going to go to the nearby Pisa airport and try to land there. Ok, so I'll just catch a train back to Florence I thought. Well when we get above the Pisa airport he comes on the radio again and says that we can't land here either because the airport is too full - there is no room for us. Everyone else who was supposed to fly into Florence also went to Pisa, and now we are just SOL. So what do we do?? Fly back to Rome, yes, back to the "point A" of this whole thing.
We get to Rome and have to all go and get our bags (after waiting forever for them to come out on the baggage thingy) then we have to go to the ticket counter and all get our tickets refunded. After that long ordeal of waiting around and starving I finally break free to get a bag of chips. Then they load us all onto a bus bound for Florence. It is a 3+ hour bus ride, which started off with a little kid throwing up in the back of the bus. Just lovely.
I get to my hotel and get my room key and am expecting the little single room with a twin bed that I booked online. But to my surprise I get a suite! A California King bed, a chandelier over the bed, a huge bathroom (esp by European standards) and each in a separate room with a little hallway in between. Very nice. Needless to say I was exhausted and just crashed there for the night. But the next day I went out into the city and saw..... these!!
Fiume River
Bridge over Fiume River
Statues at end of bridge
Fiume River with Ponte Vecchio bridge in background
Ponte Vecchio
Scooters!
Palazzo Vecchio
Church towers from top floor of Uffizi Gallery
Uffizi Gallery with Palazzo Vecchio at end
The David (well a copy of where the real one once stood. I did see the real one and it was amazing ... but they didn't allow cameras. And I couldn't sneak a pic with my huge D-70)
Close-up shot of horses in a fountain sculpture in front of Palazzo Vecchio
Street in Florence
Duomo
View from the top - I had to climb 400+ stairs for this one! No elevators.
Ahh, the view.
S. Maria Novella church
Snow over the city! It started snowing when I was out seeing the sights. This view is from Piazzale Michelangelo.
Snow and a Mini behind an even minier car along a street next to the Arno River.
View of Florence - Bella.
These are pictures of my fabulous hotel room.
And as you may know of my troubles leaving Florence from a previous blog entry... here is a pic of the snow in Florence out of the train window to Rome.
Coming up next is a real specialty. There was an art exhibit going on throughout the city of Florence when I was there and I captured some of the most interesting pieces on film. What is it you ask? Well stay tuned to find out... I will just say it involves an animal. hehehe
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
When in Rome
As you may know, I went to Rome over this past break for five glorious nights. I stayed in a very cool hostel - Yellow Hostel. I recommend it to anyone traveling to Rome. Each room has a theme and is accented accordingly with funky air-brush style graphics. My room was The A-Team, complete with Mr.T faces all around. I pity the fool!
And yes, it was here in this glorious city that I spent my Christmas. Here are some of the Christmas trees that were up around the city.
On Christmas the hostel held a little party - complete with a California King Sized (that's bigger than a regular king ya know - us California peeps have to one up everyone) game of Twister. That's right, everyone's favorite party game. I didn't actually partake in the games, but I was a caller at one point. But then again, everyone was really a caller, all you had to do was shout out a body part and a color.
Ok, now on to the good stuff - the pictures of Rome! Seeing as I took WAY too many pictures to post on here, I have painfully narrowed them down to the best (or at least the ones I think are the best). Enjoy!
The Colosseum
View of the Roman Forum (ruins) from the Colosseum
Inside the Colosseum
Wall of the Colosseum against the sky (what a beautiful day huh!)
The Roman Forum
A column
Detail of a flower that was once part of a column
Statue in the Roman sunset
The Pantheon
Not sure of the exact name of this bridge, but I call it the Bridge of Angels. If you have read Dan Brown's book "Angels and Demons" it is the bridge leading up to the Illuminati secret meeting place.
The Vatican and St.Peter
Square in front of St.Peter and fountain
City of Rome in the sunset
View down on the St.Peter's Square
The top of St.Peter's (I climbed the stairs to the top, all 350+ of 'em)
Fountain at night
Part of Rome near the Spanish Steps. Nice palm tree, kind of reminds me of home :)
That's it for the pics, if you want to see more then hit me up in March when I return to San Diego. I also have many stories - including being hit on by waiters, getting free wine from waiters, being stared at while I ate my whole meal by waiters, umm did I mention the waiters??
Still to come, my pictures from Florence...
And yes, it was here in this glorious city that I spent my Christmas. Here are some of the Christmas trees that were up around the city.
On Christmas the hostel held a little party - complete with a California King Sized (that's bigger than a regular king ya know - us California peeps have to one up everyone) game of Twister. That's right, everyone's favorite party game. I didn't actually partake in the games, but I was a caller at one point. But then again, everyone was really a caller, all you had to do was shout out a body part and a color.
Ok, now on to the good stuff - the pictures of Rome! Seeing as I took WAY too many pictures to post on here, I have painfully narrowed them down to the best (or at least the ones I think are the best). Enjoy!
The Colosseum
View of the Roman Forum (ruins) from the Colosseum
Inside the Colosseum
Wall of the Colosseum against the sky (what a beautiful day huh!)
The Roman Forum
A column
Detail of a flower that was once part of a column
Statue in the Roman sunset
The Pantheon
Not sure of the exact name of this bridge, but I call it the Bridge of Angels. If you have read Dan Brown's book "Angels and Demons" it is the bridge leading up to the Illuminati secret meeting place.
The Vatican and St.Peter
Square in front of St.Peter and fountain
City of Rome in the sunset
View down on the St.Peter's Square
The top of St.Peter's (I climbed the stairs to the top, all 350+ of 'em)
Fountain at night
Part of Rome near the Spanish Steps. Nice palm tree, kind of reminds me of home :)
That's it for the pics, if you want to see more then hit me up in March when I return to San Diego. I also have many stories - including being hit on by waiters, getting free wine from waiters, being stared at while I ate my whole meal by waiters, umm did I mention the waiters??
Still to come, my pictures from Florence...
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