Mar 18th, 2010
Eyes On New York
I didn’t come back from our last trip to New York with a whole lot of shots that I liked. But this is one of them. It was shot with my lensbaby. I love my lensbaby.
I don’t remember where it was shot exactly. Somewhere in Manhattan.
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Mar 17th, 2010
Travel Tips: Flying on the Cheap
One of the things I love about traveling in Europe is the trains. It’s fun to relax and watch the countryside speed by as you head to the next destination (most of which my wife misses as she tends to fall asleep the moment the train starts moving). If we had a better train system here in the states, I’d happily chose that over flying for shorter trips.
Sometimes, however, it’s more convenient and faster to fly. As I mentioned earlier, it was the only way I could get our Spain itinerary to work. Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to find some cheap flights throughout Europe. Here are some tips from Budget Travel to help make it easier:
6 Tips for Scoring Deals on Europe’s Budget Airlines | Travel News from Fodor’s Travel Guides.
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Mar 12th, 2010
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General Notes on Spain
I’ve added a bunch of links to the Spain Resources page including all of the hotels we’ve currently booked. Also, some museums and tourist bureau sites for the places we are going to.
We have been focusing on getting the first week of the trip locked down because that’s the leg that my parents will be joining us on before they head off to Barcelona and we head off to Valencia (after spending an extra day in Sevilla). Now that we’ve finished booking hotels for that part of the trip, we can start to concentrate on the rest.
As I mentioned, I had a lot of trouble coming up with a workable itinerary because Spain is so big and the train system isn’t quite as extensive or fast as it has been in some of the other countries we’ve visited. What finally enabled me to come up with a plan was using the cheap flights offered by Vueling to mke a few of the larger hops between cities more doable and time efficient.
We’re a little over two months out, and at this point I’m getting pretty excited about the whole thing. I even bought a new lens for the trip. One with a wide range so I could wouldn’t have to be swapping out lenses on the fly. Between that and my Lensbaby I should be all set.
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Mar 10th, 2010
Whimisical Gargoyles
From the Washington Post article on Salamanca:
We thought we’d been tricked. After studying the leaves and vines carved around the west door of Salamanca’s New Cathedral for 10 minutes, we still couldn’t locate the astronaut, the monkey with an ice cream cone or the stork carrying a branch in its beak. We decided that the purported carvings were urban legends, most likely concocted as a joke on gullible tourists.
Gargoyles are some of my favorite things to photograph, so you can bet I’ll be looking for these when we are in Salamanca in a few months.
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Feb 16th, 2010
Blog Maintenance
Thanks to Blogger disabling ftp publishing I’ve decided to move everything over to WordPress (take that Blogger). I’ve been wanting to learn how to use WordPress for a long time now and this was just the kick in the ass I needed.
So forgive me if things are a little wonky around here for the next couple of weeks as I try to get everything ironed out.
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