Thomas Locke Hobbs

Currently: Buenos Aires

 

Me and Jean Denis on our way to a friend's 30th birthday party whose theme was 'wild' (I was Wild West and Jean Denis is just plain wild). This photo was on the metro where we received lots of stares, smiles, giggles, and good natured encouragement. Luc also came and snapped away with his camera. Luc's photos are on his blog.

 
Thursday, December 29, 2005

 

In Luxembourg Gardens.

 
Monday, December 26, 2005

 

Not that vanity is ever far from the posts of this blog, but, bringing it a bit more to the front, here I am in from of the Palace in Luxembourg Gardens in Paris on a rare, snowy day.

Some of the fantastic medieval statuary at Chartres Cathedral.

 
Sunday, December 25, 2005

 

Me & Jean Denis on the train on our way to see Chartres for the day.

 
Thursday, December 22, 2005

 

Bryan at Luc's place. My visit to Paris seemed to consist of drinking tea in a sucession of small apartments.

 
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

 

Bryan and Luc on the street in Le Marais. From Cologne I few GermanWings to Paris (34 euros) to visit my friends Jean Denis & Luc. Bryan, a New York friend in Europe for a few months flew in to meet up as well. Bryan and Luc both have blogs from which the week is well documented (they're also not nearly as behind as I am)

 
Monday, December 19, 2005

 

A detail from The Arrest of Christ by a 15th century Master of Karlsruhe at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne. Quentin Tarantino eat your heart out.

 
Sunday, December 18, 2005

 

A massive 24 ton bell inside one of the Cologne Cathedral's towers.

 
Saturday, December 17, 2005

 

Inside one of the spires of the Cologne Cathedral.

 
Friday, December 16, 2005

 

Cologne Cathedral. Beyond Huge. I see they're cleaning it in sections. For me the black soot is essential to its domination of the city skyline.

 
Wednesday, December 14, 2005

 

Heidelberg, in the whole five minutes of sun I got the entire day.

 
Monday, December 12, 2005

 

A path leading down the mountain into Heidelberg. I saved two euros and gained a nice hike down by only buying a one-way ticket up the funicular.

 
Sunday, December 11, 2005

 

19th Century bombast at the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.

 
Friday, December 09, 2005

 

The Battle at the Issus by Albrecht Altdorfer at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. From Dublin I flew Ryanair to London (23 euros) where I spent six fun but photographically uninspiring days. From there I flew EasyJet to Munich (34 pounds) and saw their generally excellent painting museums (courtesey of the Bavarian Royal Family). There were enough Rubens to choke an army of horses. More interesting were these 16th century battle scenes like something out of a Mel Gibson movie.

 
Wednesday, December 07, 2005

 

More Glendalough.

 
Tuesday, December 06, 2005

 

Celtic cross gravestone at Glendalough. I saw this on a 24euro mini-van daytrip from Dublin. I don't normally go for this style of travel but short of renting a car it was my only option for seeing Wicklow County.

 
Monday, December 05, 2005

 

 
Saturday, December 03, 2005

 

Loch Tay in Wicklow County. The beautiful scenery starts just south of Dublin.

My friend Marcos gets a free rental car every weekend. We drove up to the coast of Northern Ireland and back in a day. 600km seemed reasonable to us, coming from countries of wide open spaces and long distances.

 
Friday, December 02, 2005

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