More pics from Europe. Approximate timeline:
London: all of November and December
Windsor: mid October
Salisbury/Stonehenge: mid-to-late October
Stockholm: late October
Amsterdam: early November
Madrid: early December
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Liverpool. Saturday, December 15th.
The Cavern Club. The Beatles played here 292 times.
This pint of Coke cost £2.20, or a little less than $5.00. Affordable.
Singing Christmas Carols with Liverpoolians
Albert Dock, cultural epicenter of Liverpool.
Penny Lane.
Strawberry Fields.
Traveling to Madrid during the first weekend in December:
The imperfect translations get me every time.
They love their carne.
Dancing in the street.
The view from our “penthouse apartment.”
¡Policía!
Rudolph.
Greatest hits from Amsterdam over the weekend:
Sinterklaas, forerunner to Santa Claus. So jolly.
The Latin on the colonnade—Homo Sapiens non urinat in ventum—means “Don’t pee into the wind.” C’mon, Dutch humor! Not bad.
These paintings in the Rijksmuseum cracked me up. Painted by Bartholomeus van Der Helst, the two portraits depict a father-and-son combo. To the left [...]
A British detour. These people get me every time.
A “mouse mat” … how cute it that?
I visited Stockholm, Sweden this weekend with a few of my friends from LSE. It’s a pretty town, and we were actually able to see the city’s first snow. The three most fitting adjectives for Sweden: safe, prosperous, and frigid. (I couldn’t wait to get back to London weather.)
Here are some of my favorite pics:
This [...]
This is a map of my site’s traffic since February. I get about 5-10 unique visits per day. Among continents, only Africa is missing. And Antarctica. But it doesn’t count.
You probably can’t tell from the photo above, but I’m American. That’s right, I’m from America. C’mon, don’t play dumb—we know you’ve heard of us. We’re the guys who invented freedom. Remember?
This post is an ode to the obvious American. I seem to fall into this category. (Please notice left hand simultaneously holding map and [...]
I just put up about 50 photos from my last three weeks in the U.K., including my time in Bath and Cambridge as well as London. Check them out at the following link:
http://www.davidcflood.com/…album=72157602376788189
And here are my favs, in order of neither chronology nor preference.
Houghton Street, the LSE’s equivalent of the Diag. It’s usually super crowded [...]