Larrybane & Giant's Causeway

Some phenominal landscape in Ireland...

Larrybane and the rope bridge:









The giant's eye in the distance, beyond the mist lies the Mull of Kyntyre and Paul McCartney. Or Scotland, rather:


Ok this is stunning - the Giant's Causeway, another big reason I came to view the north.


Stupid people always in the way of my damn photos.

It's true what they say...

...there are a lot rangas in Ireland. There's also a lot of bloody Aussie bogans. Jesus Christ Superstar, seriously. I'm adopting a fake accent and sitting on the furtherest side of the room. Idiots.

Infamous Temple Bar


Some other crazy pub, Flaggy McFlags. (I made up that name.)


Dublin city center, featuring the famous pointy stick monument:


The Liffey, taken from the bridge:


Some gorgeous (and largest in the world) Celtic crosses in Slane cemetery:

Barcelona markets - 2 different views

Oh boy, it was a Catholic treat at these flea markets in Plaza St Jaume, Barcelona. All that was missing was a black Jesus. If only I was rich with a big suitcase, I would've bought so many bits and pieces for my wall of tackiness*. Grainy hipster photos will have to suffice.



Serious church pillaging has gone on in Spain:











Home made Saint relic, anyone?


Look at all these awesome looking cameras lined up:


Love me some creepy dollies:


On the other side of the coin, and the gothic quarter lies the pet markets on La Ramblas:


Tiny turtles.... Not legal in oz. Or surely Danye West would be breeding these.


I think this is a bandicoot. Or some sort of south American rat.



Something small, fury and stripey. Probably bites.


Ferrets, cheaper cousin of the mink. I saw a guy taking one for a walk past my house once, it was surreal.

*currently in storage

Museo de Caza - Help me Ronda

I didn't initially intend to visit but on a Sunday afternoon where there's not alot open or much else to do (plus the low price of €1.50), I took a trip to the Museo de Caza.

From what I could work out (the spainiards aren't big on english subtitles), this home now partially houses the hunting/taxidermied collection belonging to one family, while they lived upstairs (that's 2 floors below I would not like to stumble around in the dark). They also featured many happy snaps of the family in their hunting adventures with their trophies from the room.


Most of the taxidermy was the typical deer/elk/moose variety but there was also a few lions, several big cats of various varieties, bears, wild boars, birds and elephant feet.


I sort of debated this whole concept in my head of even patronizing such a museum as I'm so adamently against hunting animals for sport and I refuse to witness a bullfight whilst I'm here because frankly I don't think I could handle it. But I decided it's ultimately my curiosity of viewing once-live animals far more closely than I ever could in life.



The moose and bison heads were huge!!!


I have no idea what this is. A monkey crossed with several deer? A moer? A deerkey? A donkey?


This was in the basement. This scared me. I quickly left.


The view from the backyard, the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

The palace of Versailles: Inspiring the ridiculous houses you've seen on Cribs

Loved this place, it was ridiculously oppulent! It was also the last known address of Marie Antionette, beheaded Queen of France.