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A second Barcelona redux - more photos

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What exactly is the redux of a redux? I dunno – but here are some photos of the horse parade, La Boqueria Market and the Festival of the Giants, or whatever it may have been properly called. (click to enlarge) ......

Barcelona Redux - photos only, no wisdom here.

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We took more than 400 photographs on our trip to Spain and I’ve only shared a small sample in the previous blogs. So tonight I thought that I would post a few more covering some of the sights that caught my eye while roaming the streets. Below are some shots of the town, Cristobal Colon, Gaudi’s cathedral, carvings and gargoyles, My Lovely Wife leaning on a Roy Lichtenstein sculpture, Roman architectural details and couple of the apse and one of the many gilded chapels in the Cathedral of Barcelona. It’s a wonderful city for textures and details and I had a lot of fun finding and capturing them. (click to enlarge) ..............

Back at it

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You see them off and on in the regular places - hubcap belt buckle, tight baseball caps with rounded brims, untucked cowboy shirts over a classic beer belly, running shoes, jeans, a scruffy beard and a not wholly young or attractive Chinese woman on their arm. Always wearing look which translates as “Don’t short change me or I’ll throw a chair through the window.” These are the oil rig guys, the fourth leg of the expat table after the German automotive guys, the tech workers and the aimless students trying to make a positive change in the world. Usually you can find a handful of them in the same restaurant night after night eating western food because that’s what they know. Chain smoking and nursing a beer over a plate of spaghetti and meatballs. Their companion always sits there silently drinking a soft drink and staring into space with a look of bored disgust making you wonder what the details of the arrangement are. The deal here isn’t about conversation, it’s about comfort. I went