Plaza Mayor
18 July 2003 | ||
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| After Holger moved from LA to Madrid it was time to visit him there. He lives just off the Plaza Mayor... | ||
Party at Holgers
19 July 2003 | ||
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| Some of Holger's Spanish friends in his apartment.... I didn't take that many photos that night, more are on Holger's webpage. | ||
DJ at Work
19 July 2003 | ||
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| Notice the books in the back.... | ||
Wings?
19 July 2003 | ||
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| Long exposure and a few disco lights created this weird effect on Holger's head. I only know it's Holger as he had a blue blinking birthday light around his neck.... | ||
Club del Sol
19 July 2003 | ||
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| Much later on at 5am.... Looks like my vision that night.... | ||
Holger at Club del Sol
19 July 2003 | ||
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| With the blue blinking light around his neck.... | ||
Paintings at the City Hall
19 July 2003 | ||
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| At Plaza Mayor in Madrid... | ||
Smoke gets in your eyes
19 July 2003 | ||
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| The beautiful backdrop of Madrid got filled up with dark black smoke and the wedding photographers rushed away to change venue. | ||
Madrid's main Cathedral
19 July 2003 | ||
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| Slowly the smoke got thicker though.... | ||
Sirens could be heard
19 July 2003 | ||
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| A car must be burning down there.... | ||
Advantages of Smoke
19 July 2003 | ||
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| Like this setting. The stench of burned rubber was terrible though. | ||
Another night, another Party
20 July 2003 | ||
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| One of Holger's Latina friends had a party. We went there at around 1am, which is when things slowly get started. This photo hung on the wall in the flat. | ||
Anna/Anita
20 July 2003 | ||
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| One of Holger's friends, Anna, who was moving to France the day later. | ||
Birthday Drink
20 July 2003 | ||
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| Back at Club del Sol.... | ||
Holger and Entourage
20 July 2003 | ||
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| ...crashing a hen night... | ||
5am
20 July 2003 | ||
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| Starting to wake up... | ||
Trademark Violations
20 July 2003 | ||
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| After getting to bed at 6:30am and a nice long sleep, interrupted by Gazpacho soup sessions, I got up at 4:30pm and headed for more sightseeing. I was tempted to give the poor girls/guys in the costumes money, just to appreciate their suffering at 38 degrees Celsius. | ||
Short exposure time
20 July 2003 | ||
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| Looks nice... | ||
Long exposure time
20 July 2003 | ||
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| Worse.... | ||
Classic sculpture
20 July 2003 | ||
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| I liked the bum of this sculpture though it was very Rubenesque. | ||
Grandfather and grandchild
20 July 2003 | ||
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| ...feeding the birds in front of the Crystal palace. A little bird eats the food straight from grandfather's hand... | ||
Crystal palace
20 July 2003 | ||
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| There are special exhibitions in this place. This time it was closed. The picture is a bit murky as it is through glass. | ||
Crystal Palace
20 July 2003 | ||
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| From across the lake. | ||
Main Lake in Madrid
20 July 2003 | ||
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| A pretty girl to the right, many people out in boats on this artificial lake which they recently cleaned out entirely. A fantastic day. | ||
More Trademark Violations
20 July 2003 | ||
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| Come on, they stole these so obviously from Disney's Lion King. | ||
Memorial
20 July 2003 | ||
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| You can rent these boats to hang out in this large pool in the main park in front of the memorial. | ||
Tour of Madrid
20 July 2003 | ||
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| On one of those sightseeing buses. They go until midnight every day.... | ||
Piano Bar
20 July 2003 | ||
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| Later that night with Holger hanging out in one of Madrid's Piano bars and drinking Sangria. | ||
Holger's Band
16 November 2005 | ||
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| Holger is playing drums in Madrid and had this concert just the road down from where we had our conference. | ||
Mathias and Paola
17 November 2005 | ||
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| My cousin Mathias is studying in Madrid, so on the night of Holger's concert, I took him along and we had Tapas and beers, then the camera failed.... | ||
Steak in Madrid
10 September 2006 | ||
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| How to scare a Vegetarian off this site... Seen at Dinner... | ||
Madrid
10 September 2006 | ||
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| Very warm outside... I really like this city.... | ||
Madrid Airport
11 September 2006 | ||
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| The new terminal and its architecture | ||
Madrid Airport Ceiling
11 September 2006 | ||
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| The ceiling close-up.... | ||
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