There's all the usual tourist stuff to do in Europe, great cathedrals, wine tasting, ancient villages, and on and on. But I always take time to wander around the side streets looking for the odd and unusual, and even a few WTF moments, whatever tweaks my weird perception of the world. So here's a collection of photos of, well, I'll try to explain...
First up, wine... a map of the Bordeaux wine region... 9000 wineries!!!
Then there was this winery... the actual winery is on the right, but on the left is an unusual tasting room (the wineries can't advertise, so they create cool tasting rooms to attract visitors). I guess there's a nice view from the top...
Some car shots... one from Schiphol airport, a Citroen 2CV parked outside a cafe, a hot fast and furious (rice rocket?!?), and a future race driver practicing in the Zandvoort lounge.
An interesting sculpture in the center of Bordeaux...
Cool mud patterns (?!?)...
A cafe in Cadillac...
A cafe in Bordeaux (I can hear Fay Raye screaming!)...
And the European fascination with American cowboys and Indians and Hollywood at another cafe...
A couple political posters from the Basque region. While the separaist movement has abated, there's still calls to return political prisoners to prisons closer to their families.
A mailbox (maybe) and a water spout...
A nice collection of beautiful wooden skateboards...
I love European window displays. If the glass reflections weren't so bad, I'd have taken a million shots. Here are a couple that worked out reasonably well. Cool dresses and flying babies (!)...
Gotta have a tiki bar...
Hey, it's gotta be French!
One of our hotel beds... I was (not)!
Modern feminism...
Stairs behind a row of new shops...
A fine set of windows...
Fashion is big in Europe, at least for most people. An exception (and is that Bernie Sanders trying to pick her up?)..
And a true WTF moment when I found this hair salon...
And finally, one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever seen, sort of a candy dish, but really a work of art...
That's it! Now to save up for another trip.
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