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-Turkey

Spot the Difference

Wordless Wednesday – on Wednesdays  all over the internet bloggers  post a photo with no words to explain it. Linked to Word a Week: Contrast.

-Edinburgh

M is for… Meltdown

“..a disastrous collapse or breakdown…” This amazing green sculpture is made uranium glass lit by ultraviolet light.  The eerie glow suggsest meltdown to me, though I’m not sure that’s what […]

Rest of France

April Fool?

I love this cheeky restaurant sign, with its play on words – found in Port d’Avall in Collioure, the most beautiful place in France, and that’s no April Fool (or […]

-Madrid

Triangles and Reflections

The entrance to the metro in Puerta del Sol provides some great photo opportunities with its triangles of glass at varying angles.  Just add some Spanish sun and you have […]

-Madrid

Calderon Gagged

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600 — 1681), born and died in Madrid, was the dramatist and poet who succeeded Lope de Vega as the greatest Spanish playwright of the Golden Age.  He is well […]

-Barcelona

Orange Modernism

This beautiful orange roof towers above the Plaça Catalunya, at the corner of Passeig de Gràcia and Ronda de Sant Pere. Linked to Mandarin Orange Monday.

Public Art

Artists on the Seafront

These two distinguished looking fellows, are two beloved Catalan artists and one-time Sitges residents from the modernist period. Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (1861 – 1931) was a  Barcelona-born painter, poet, collector, cultural […]