the problem with the photos is two-fold: one, i am no photographer, not at all, and i pretty much screwed every picture from venice and ljubjana (though i did manage to capture some nice ones in prague). im not going to try and kid myself about this one, when it comes to taking pictures... i SUCK! secondly, spaniards really, really, really like to take photos. so when i was in budapest and vienna, i didn´t hardly take any pictures because litrally, between the three spaniards i was with, there was a photo shoot every fifteen steps. alberto and i alone probably have a good 8 or 9 poses from the 5 days we spent together. he really liked to take pictures of the group even in the most random places; we would be walking down the street, and he would pull out his camera and hand it to pedro, put his arm around me and say, "foto foto...pictura." it was pretty hilarious at first. then it just got annoying. just to give you a taste, i have, on my ipod, 648 photos from david of the 9 days he traveled with me. i haven´t yet collected all the pictures from pedro and alberto, but i am going to post some from venice, ljubjana, and budapest now.
this is the sunset that i wrote about the other day in venice, so beautiful. 
the only problem is all the scaffolding on the basilica and the fact that there is a gigantic sunspot in the middle of the picture. but pictures never capture actual feeling of being there.
here is one of the few pictures from ljubjana that wasn´t completely jacked. 
it´s in the old town at the bottom of castle hill. it was such a great city. i really enjoyed the diversity in art that i saw there. there was a great graphic art display in the castle, it was so refreshing to see something different, and really creative too.
it´s in the old town at the bottom of castle hill. it was such a great city. i really enjoyed the diversity in art that i saw there. there was a great graphic art display in the castle, it was so refreshing to see something different, and really creative too. here is the neighborhood around the hostel, it looks really bad, but mostly, it´s just rowdy. at night the entire neighborhood is full of kids drinking
and carrying on, and randomly breaking out in chorus. one night i met this guy from ljubjana at the hostel--the hostel used to be a prison during slovenia´s communist years (about 20 years ago)--it has been totally revamped, and the bottom floor is now a restaurant and bar. so one night i met this guy, anze. he came to grab a few beers in the hostel before heading to a show in a nearby club. he is a photographer, but he studies graphic design at ljubjana university because graphic design was the closest thing they offered to photography. so i had a good long conversation with him about the neighborhood and the city. he said the neighborhood (pretty much all the old prison compound) used to be a common ground for drug dealers and junkies after the fall of communism. so a few years back, in order to clean up the neighborhood, the city encouraged dance clubs and music venues to move in. they didn´t white wash the walls, they didn´t send police raid after police raid, they just transformed how the neighborhood was being used. although there is a ridiculous amont of drinking going on there, at least it has helped to curb much of the drug activity. i thought that was pretty interesting. anze photography site is http://users.volja.net/godec4 if you are at all interested you should check it out for a few minutes (especially the nature shots).
this is a picture from on top of gellerts hill in budapest. it offers such an 
incredible view of the city. i know this picture is isn´t incredible or anything, but the moment was one of my favorites of the entire trip. we stayed up there until it was dark, and you could see all the bridges lit up, and the castle and river decorated with lights like christmas trees. it was so beautiful.
incredible view of the city. i know this picture is isn´t incredible or anything, but the moment was one of my favorites of the entire trip. we stayed up there until it was dark, and you could see all the bridges lit up, and the castle and river decorated with lights like christmas trees. it was so beautiful.i´ll end with a classic alberto picture moment. notice the classy green 
construction netting in the backgound. also, you should take note that there is no monument, famous building, or piece of art that would normally encite such a need for a photo. but what really sets off the photo is the change sign framing david´s head. breathtaking, simply breathtaking.
construction netting in the backgound. also, you should take note that there is no monument, famous building, or piece of art that would normally encite such a need for a photo. but what really sets off the photo is the change sign framing david´s head. breathtaking, simply breathtaking.that is all for now, i am really tired of writing and waiting for the computer to load pictures. much love, i´ll continue this tomorrow.
