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| Saturday, 1-Apr-2006 10:45 |
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The Eurotrip: Hendaye
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Leaving the girls at San Sebastian was a sad affair, but there was little time to be depressed. I was off on a train for France, bound for Bayonne, though I wasn't quite sure how to get there. I got as far as Hendaye, a small town on a big lake somewhere in the Pays Basque (I'm not sure whether it is in Spain or France...I'm not sure anyone there knows, either), where I had a few hours to wait before the next train left. It was a quiet Sunday, and nearly everyone had left / was leaving for San Sebastian or thereabouts for a big rugby game. I walked around and took advantage of the picturesque nature of the village.
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| Tuesday, 28-Mar-2006 09:15 |
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The Eurotrip: San Sebastian
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We spent a languourous five days in San Sebastian, lounging on the beautiful beaches, watching surfers, wasting time in tapas bars and at electric nightclubs. We hoofed the hills, cowered in cathedrals and ambled down the avenues. We lost Matt to his family, who whisked him to France ahead of myself. Sarah, Elana and I did our best without him. Highlights included an honest-to-God botellon party, a trip to the oceanside sculpture garden, climbing a mountain, atop of which there was a giant stature of Jesus (and I mean giant), falling in love with Basque people, eating greasy-spoon quality paella, and finally getting our fill of Spanish TV.
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| Sunday, 26-Mar-2006 08:12 |
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The Eurotrip: Bilbao
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Bilbao was the city of happenings, of culture literally dripping from the wavy chrome Frank Gehry walls. We visited the Guggenheim, walked around the ethnic district, Sara lost her camera, we snuck Sara into a hostel for 3 nights (unsuccessfully), we saw a big football party that essentially devoured the streets for a night, we met some 30-year-old Basque warriors on a reunion binge of drinking and hooligantery, I got slapped in the face by a drug-crazed homeless man (and Matt got assulted, too), we were saved by a black-adorned bartender who whisked us away to her lesbian-gay bar on the other side of the river, we ate a massively expensive meal in an empty restaurant with Matt's parents and sister, we ate lunch on a hilltop overlooking the city while it rained and goats bleated, we really did it all, didn't we?
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| Thursday, 23-Mar-2006 14:08 |
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The Eurotrip: Pamplona
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In Pamplona we ate in Hemmingway's famed cafe Iruna, walked the path of the 'running of the bulls', checked out an old fort-turned-outdoor-art-gallery, drank fine sangria and dealth with an intense, intensely old Spanish hotel proprietress. There was even time to scale a Roman wall, check out the town cathedral and discover a peacock/goat animal park. And we couldn't escape the centuries-old European tradition of striking against unfair pay and conditions. We got caught up in a VW-worker union march.
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| Monday, 20-Mar-2006 12:00 |
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The Eurotrip: Barcelona
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We began our trip in Barcelona, a fantasmal city of swirling architecture, late night spectres and towering, apocalyptic art on every corner.
Day 1 (arrival) - Triple X combo, muthas: Xtreme exhaustion (see picture 2), Xtreme silliness (see picture 3), Xtreme Sangria Straw (see picture 8 )
Day 2 - Big outdoor market, bigger park fountain, frisbee with Spanish midgets (or else schoolchildren, I wasn't sure), Picasso museum, mad old cathedral
Day 3 - Dan Snyder and Reid Schwartzel (sp?), wandering about the ethnic district, Gaudi x 2 (Cathedral of the Sagrada Familia and Park Uguell), funkalicious clubbing
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| Saturday, 18-Mar-2006 18:50 |
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Spring Break begins: London
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They arrive! And so the drinking begins (it is St. Paddy's day)
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And we're off to Chiunatown for lunch
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And then a sojourn through Soho...
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Our break began with a weekend in London. Tim, Seth and I stayed in Jordan's flat in SOHO, and Elana, Sarah and Matt made their own arrangements. Luch fun was had, and a few pictures were snapped. But mostly, we considered it a sort of pregaming for Spain.
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| Monday, 6-Mar-2006 18:21 |
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Jordan and Ben walk to Lewes
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Jordan visited me the weekend before Spring Break, and while most of it went undocumented, I did take the camera on a trip we took to Lewes (a historical town located about 45 minutes from The University of Sussex campus, by foot). We walked, saw some sheep, found the town and explored the medieval castle located therein, and also the really funky museum. Here are a few pictures of the adventure.
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| Sunday, 5-Mar-2006 18:14 |
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Various trips and pictures from early March
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The pictures, all culled from Elana's collection (you will notice the increase in quality), are a collage of various trips and events from February / March. These events include:
-a walk on the Downs
-a night out at Casablanca's
-a Super Bowl party at the Grapevine (our on-campus pool hall)
-taking Catherine around downtown Brighton
-Elana's birthday breakfast (a la Ben)
-our visit to Stonehenge and Bath (including the Roman baths)
-a middle-of-the-forest rave that was both crazy and lame
-Sarah's volleyball game
So here are the picutres, with alternatively clever and bone-headed captions included, as always. More can be found on Elana's facebook page.
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| Wednesday, 1-Mar-2006 14:09 |
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Rottingdean
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In Rudyard Kipling's garden (really!)
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The tiniest door in the UK
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Rottingdean central
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These pictures are, admittedly, months old, and for that I'm sorry. Over the next week or so I'll try to catch up to the amount of photos that have been taken in the past month or so. I maintain, though, that I'd rather have adventures than document them, though my friends back home might crucify me for it. Or hey, they might not care, because they might have lives of their own.
Rottingdean is a little village down the coast from Brighton, and it is home to delicious cream tea and amazing chalk cliffsides by the pebble beach.
P.S. All of these photos are Elana's. She's better at pictures than I.
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| Sunday, 15-Jan-2006 00:00 |
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Exploring Winchester
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Outside the train station
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Cobbled Streets of Winchester
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The artist at work, outside the...
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The lovely Elana and I took a day trip to see Winchester last Saturday. It was a three-hour train ride to this quaint town which contains the biggest cathedral in England, an interesting royal hall and some great old (underground!) pubs on cobblestone streets. Here are some pictures.
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