sammi needham : suckonnit

I realised that i neglected to put the photos of morocco or gibralta up when i added all of the trip photos to Flickr. So now they’re up.

monkey business on the rock

some kids in morocco, from out the bus window

This is possibly my favourite shot from the holiday.

It’s a big metal bull thing, filled with fireworks that a dude wears on his back and does the bull run at 10pm every night of the festival. There are no real bulls at this time, only one big metal one. All these dads and kids and drunk people follow him around, it’s a real family affair. That is, as long as you don’t cop an explosion in the eye.

After four days, all photos from my spanish holiday are uploaded to Flickr. I haven’t really used Flickr much as i only really signed up for it as a way to share and categorise these trip photos. I’ve found it pretty easy to use Flickr Uploadr for the mac to create sets and upload photos as a batch, so that’s good. I’ve found it easy to make collections and organise the photo sets inside them with Flickr, so that’s good too. I like the way that if you’re logged in you can just click an image title and edit it right on the page, it’s good. There’s lots i haven’t done with it though, like blogging photos from flickr, and sending camera phone photos to flickr, and assigning map locations to photos with flickr, and anal. I’m sure it’s good at lots of things, i look forward to exploring them.

It’s a bit slow to browse photos though, and i’d like a MCE plugin for it. That way if i ever get around to having a slide night it’ll be much more impressive.

Trip photo collection can be found here…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sammi77/collections/72157600799949198/

that is all. home in 4 days

the flamenco in granada was the best. little cave like place and 3 dudes, one old guy singing, one awesome guitarist playing guitar and another dude dancing. he was unreal. got lots of photos.

from granada, we mvoed on to barcelona which is a great place. heaps of great shopping locations and the weather was fine fine fine. ate some good food and saw the gaudi sights before our final night on tour. Roxy found that one of the gaudi apartment buildings had a jazz concert on the rooftop for a cheap 12€ so that was our destination. It was brilliant, there were fireworks going off in the city and we were sitting back watching some amazing contemporary jazz on the inspiring roof of the Casa Milà with Sagrada Familia lit up in the distance. Picture perfect.

From there we did a cooking course in barcelona where we did a tour of the local market and then made a bunch of dishes including a delicious paella. And the next day hired a car and drove to san sebastian. It was about a 500km drive after getting lost a little bit and a stop-over in a little town for some lunch along the way.

San sebastian greeted us with an awesome beach (THAT HAS TABLE TENNIS TABLES  ON IT MILAN!). Drove around for a while and found the hotel pretty efficiently, then have spent the last few days, shopping, walking the beaches kicking the footy and throwing the frisbee, bar-hopping to find the best pintxos in town and walking up the big hill to see the jesus, which just happened to have an awesome bar that overlooked the beaches with an amazing view from very high up and also had incredibly cheap cervesas!. Today has been spend in town doing a bit of clothes washing and planning tomorrows drive to pamplona.

Probably won’t be online again for a little while as i’m sure pamplona will be massive. Dan is coming down for a day as he is going to be surfing in spain. Hutchy will be there for the second day too, so there will be lots of beer, running with bulls, bull fights, sky-rockets and jumping off fountains to certain death to come. Back on deck when we hit barcelona again on the night of the 8th. If i post on the 9th, you’ll know i haven’t died. If i don’t post on the 9th, maybe you will get a text from roxy letting you know that i might not be back at work/footy/home on time. Wish me luck.

over and out.