| Donaukanal Graffiti |
[28 Nov 2009|09:09am] |
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The walls along the danube canal in Vienna are completely coated in graffiti, and it was some of the coolest graffiti I've ever seen. They are even on both sides of the canal, and I only had a look at the one side.
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| Fernwärmewerk Wien Spittelau |
[26 Nov 2009|06:14pm] |
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I am out of the S-Bahn station and was unexpectedly greeted by this building of pure awesomeness. It's an incinerator which burns garbage to heat other buildings in the city, designed by Friedrich Hundertwasser. Taken in Vienna, Austria.
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| Green |
[25 Nov 2009|07:51pm] |
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So wonderfully tacky. Taken in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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| Slovenská Posta |
[24 Nov 2009|03:48pm] |
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The Slovakian post is run by petrified children!
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| Nový Most |
[23 Nov 2009|03:37pm] |
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The Nový Most, or New Bridge, crossing the Danube in Bratislava, Slovakia. I met up with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) isegrim and we went there for the day. Lots and lots of socialist apartment blocks in the background.
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| Sage |
[22 Nov 2009|07:46pm] |
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Back in June Sage was diagnosed with diabetes. He lost a ridiculous amount of weight and was terribly skinny for a long time, but he's starting to do better now. I have to give him a shot of insulin every 12 hours, and test his blood levels pretty regularly. He's really good about getting the injections, and it's actually the easiest form of medication to give him.
Anyway, I'll try to resume the semi-daily-photo-spam. I've mostly been busy being lazy, while also helping out at a vegan kitchen on campus. I'll be in Berlin again for Christmas, but I'll probably not even get to the Berlin photos from last year before I am there again.
But here are more Sage photos:
( more photos )
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| Block Remains |
[15 Oct 2009|07:24pm] |
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I walked by this complex every day on the way to and from work. It looked like it used to be an old socialist block and was mostly demolished, except for two of the corners. One of them looks like a maintenance or electrical area, and the other one appears to have been an apartment. In the middle they started putting up a new building, but construction had ceased.
Someone was still living in the apartment section, and he had a couple dogs guarding the construction yard. I would have gotten more detailed photos, but he was often standing around watching people walk by.
Here's the remaining apartment:
And the maintenance area:
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| Macadamian Romania |
[07 Oct 2009|07:26pm] |
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This is the office where I worked in Romania for three months. The house was owned by a Romanian couple who lived in the bottom floor while Macadamian rented the top two floors. As far as offices go, it was pretty awesome - no dreadful fluorescent lights.
The owners had a dog kept inside a cage that was maybe four square metres of concrete. The dog had a small house, but that was it. I never saw them take him out of the cage once. They would hose it down each day to wash away his excrement. I don't really need to say that he was friendly - the couple times I approached him, he went insane.
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| Someşul Mic |
[04 Oct 2009|10:56am] |
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The river that runs through Cluj-Napoca, complete with wires and garbage.
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| Nicula Monastery |
[02 Oct 2009|02:14am] |
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The original church at Nicula Monastery. Not sure how old it is, but in 1681, an icon in the church apparently wept for two weeks. Now it ones of the most famous pilgrimage locations in Romania and Hungary.
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| Nicula Hills |
[29 Sep 2009|06:40pm] |
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Some of the hills around Nicula monastery. mmm fog
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| Nicula Monastery |
[27 Sep 2009|05:34pm] |
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One Sunday morning some friends drove us into the hills of Nicula to see the orthodox monastery there. It happened to be during a busy religious ceremony and photos are forbidden, but I managed to take a few shots.
The monastery is in the process of building this new church to replace their older one.
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| Cheile Turzii |
[26 Sep 2009|09:12pm] |
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The gorge of Cheile Turzii. Nice narrow walkway.
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| Cheile Turzii |
[25 Sep 2009|05:05pm] |
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One of the crags on the northern side of the gorge at Cheile Turzii.
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| Romanian Countryside |
[24 Sep 2009|12:43am] |
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We met up with some other couchsurfers who had a car and went for a hike to Cheile Turzii, a large gorge that runs through two large hills that rise up in the middle of nowhere.
This is a view from the top of the northern hill, facing east.
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| Monumentul Ostasului Necunoscut |
[22 Sep 2009|03:24pm] |
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A monument to unknown soldiers, behind the orthodox cathedral in central Cluj. Done in the weird Romanian statue style.
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| Inside the Orthodox Cathedral |
[20 Sep 2009|03:49pm] |
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I find most churches look nicer on the outside than on the inside. Not so with the orthodox ones. I only visited a couple of them, but they were all incredible inside - extremely decorative and light almost exclusively with natural light. Make sure you view the larger size of the image.
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| Avram Iancu and Orthodox Cathedral |
[17 Sep 2009|06:49pm] |
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The main orthodox cathedral in central Cluj, with a large monument to Avram Iancu, a hero of the fight against the Hungarians in the 1840s
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| Kangaroos in Romania |
[15 Sep 2009|03:01pm] |
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Someone had altered this sign outside my apartment. I also think the right-of-way sign below it looks like a crooked, unhappy sumo wrestler. :D
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