This is the City of Arts and Sciences complex in Valencia, Spain. Taken June 8, 2009. The complex includes several unique buildings – L’Hemisfèric (in the shape of an eye, above), El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe (in the shape of a dinosaur skeleton), and L’Oceanogràfic (in the shape of a water lilly).
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This is Lombard Street in San Francisco, one of the most crookedest streets in the world. There are 8 switchbacks, and the speed limit on the one-way street down is a blistering 5 mph. While a tour guide there claimed the street’s crookedness was a result of an earthquake where residents decided to “leave it that way” after, Wikipedia claims it’s intentional in order to handle the steep incline downhill. I tend to believe Wikipedia. A tour guide lied to me though, which is not good. Now how can I believe anything I think I know about the history of San Francisco?
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The above photo was taken in Nerja, Spain as we were walking down a small street. It was taken May 11, 2009. I love this, a bicycle cart full of flowers as a complement to the hand-written sign announcing their operating hours. It’s one of those things that is a total set up, but is a perfect little thing that makes me want to come in for a drink. If they put this much effort into the sign, imagine was the cappucino is like. It shows “we care about the small stuff”.
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The above picture was taken on the road from Marbella, Spain on the way to Seville. The number of wind turbines I saw numbered easily in the hundreds – 200 at least I would say. Every hill and ridge had them. I wonder if that’s the world’s most number of turbines in one place. It has to be close right? I trimmed the photo to make it extra wide to highlight the turbines.
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The above picture was taken by me in the Madrid AVE train station on May 9, 2009. This is the same train station that was bombed in 2004 by al Qaeda, although there was no remaining damage while I was there. Security was abundant though. And riding the AVE at 295 km/h (175 mph) was a great experience I would definitely recommend.
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The above picture was taken in a closed off section of the Madrid domestic airport on May 5, 2009. As we were waiting for our luggage to arrive on the carosel, I wandered around the corner and loved the emptiness of the space as well as the way the lights were reflecting off the well polished floor.
