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Tour is Over
Tuesday, 02 August 2011 21:28
Matt O
I made it home!
24 hours on planes and in airports from Lisbon made it happen, but despite the absurdity of security theatre, lost passports (yes, I lost my passport on the flight from Portugal to LHR) and fat guys in middle seats, I made it home anyway.
 After Barcelona (which was every bit as cool as I remembered it, btw), we went up to San Sebastian. The drive wasn't too long and we got there in plenty of time to go to the beach and get me heartily sunburned. It was hard not to be sunburned when there were so many topless girls on the beach - how do you leave? The picture on the left is one that was sent to me by one of the guys that had no qualms about taking pictures of random chicks on nude beaches (not me) and cropped by someone with basic photoshop skills (me). What you can't see in this picture is that I really had a good reason to be sunburned. I promise.
More nonsense about the end of the tour and what I hope the future brings after the break.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 August 2011 22:29 )
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Last Day Off!
Monday, 25 July 2011 23:55
Matt O
 I'm in Barcelona at the moment, checking my emails and generally getting caught back up on the world since I've been offline the last few days. We did a 14-hour ride and an 18-hour ride separated only by a show day in Brugge (Bruges?), so I spent longer on the bus getting to and from the place than in the place itself.
I managed to walk around Brugge before the light faded, taking my time in a nice reminder of having been there before, back in High School. I've had plenty of reasons to think back favorably on that trip over the years, but none so frequently as this leg, where I've re-visited four of the towns we saw then (London, Brugge, Venice, Munich). Good stuff.
Anyway, once I'm caught up, I'll be wandering around town at least to see the Gaudi cathedral, and maybe to walk La Rambla again. We'll see. Bigger pic after the break.
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Athens
Tuesday, 19 July 2011 02:09
Matt O
 I made it to Athens, survived the 4-shows-in-5-days nonsense and managed to spend a couple hours this morning at the top of the hill in the Acropolis. It's small enough to wander all over and shoot photos even in a couple hours. The part of Athens that's right around the base of the hill is really picturesque, actually, and probably worth a walk back this evening for dinner. We'll see.
The obvious advantages of getting there as the place opened (temperature, crowds) were in full effect here, since it allowed me to wander around the lower grounds on the South side of the hill without feeling like I was going to die of heat exhaustion or be engulfed in crowds. No amount of postponement, however, could keep me from being pulled to the top of the hill and noticing with chagrin how little I remembered from my Humanities classes 17ish years ago. There was a time when I could have told you not only when each building was built but who designed it and particulars about each building. Sadly, that's not true anymore.
Absurdist musings and a picture of the Parthenon after the break.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 July 2011 02:46 )
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Intern-ageddon!
Monday, 18 July 2011 10:07
Matt O
Yo!
I've been *days* without internet. It's been amazing and horrifying, enlightening and torturous. We've done 4 shows in 5 days and I'm fucking exhausted, to be totally honest. Landed in Athens this evening and have a day off tomorrow, so, barring total mental meltdown, i'll be checking out the acropolis tomorrow and looking at all the old shit atop that most famous of Greek hills. Pictures, naturally, to follow.
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Istanbul!
Sunday, 10 July 2011 14:13
Matt O
Istanbul was way cooler than I thought it would be.
Maybe it's because I'm a guy (I heard that some of the girls on our tour dealt with sexism that would miss me entirely) and maybe it's because I had just come from Cairo, where literally everything was either falling down or being put up and the people were pretty much unaffected by all of it, maybe it's because Takumi had a friend who was willing to drive us around and play tourguide, or at least tour facilitator, but whatever the cause, I was impressed.
More nonsense after the break.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 July 2011 14:48 )
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Aarhus is pretty
Sunday, 19 June 2011 23:38
Matt O
(Pic moved to after the break)
Aarhus (or Arhus with a circle over the A) is a nice little town. Not only because of the rainbow, but because there's a little, muddy river that runs through town that's flanked for a couple of lovely blocks by nice little eateries and shops. Because they don't lock up their bikes here. It's amazing. First one I saw was just sitting by the sidewalk. I thought it was abandoned - almost took it for a joyride. The town seems human-scale; it's the first proper town we've stayed in, and maybe the last, depending on how that place in Italy turns out.
Last Updated ( Friday, 01 July 2011 21:27 )
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