The city of Sevilla in Spain hosts an annual festival each year at the end of April or Early May.
The festival features a neighborhood of casitas (small tents). Each casita is essentially a private party with food, entertainment, and dancing. The attendees typically dress up in their finest traditional Spanish attire, and arrive on horseback, or on horse carriage. There is also a typical fair “fun zone” with food/rides.
The Galeries Lafayette and Printemps department stores in Paris France setup spectacular displays and decorations in their windows for the Christmas holiday season.
This year in 2011, the displays were both animated with marionette puppets and music to go with the display. Galeries Lafayette’s theme this year was Un Noël à Paris, Noel Rock’n Mode, with displays based on a rock-n-roll band going on tour. Printemps windows were much more artistic, with an asian themed wiindow, a photo-shoot themed window, and an airport themed window. These windows are definitely a must-see if you’re in Paris for the holiday season, starting about mid-November.
This video highlights the major tourist sites in Dublin including Trinity College for the Book of Kells, Pubs in Temple Bar, Guiness Storehouse, Eating Fish and Chips at Leo Burdock, Kilmanham Jail, and O’Connel St.
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The Irish are a very musical people. This video showcases a guy that I found on the streets of Dublin Ireland playing the spoons in the neighborhood of Temple Bar. Pretty amazing what he can do with 2 spoons!
His name is Decklan Walsh — and apparently he’s been playing the spoons for quite a long time!
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Traffic in Naples Italy is absolutely crazy insane.
If there are any rules, they sure don’t seem to be enforced. This video is from a “left turn yield” intersection — which really works out to be much more of a “left turn go” intersection. They don’t yield in Naples, they just go!
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Naples Italy is known for beautiful sights, crazy drivers, but most importantly, it’s trash problem.
Since 2007 Naples has had issues with it’s trash collection. Trash overflows the dumpsters and trash cans due to lack of landfill space, and mafia control of the waste management industry. See for yourself with this video how truly smelly it can be!
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On a recent trip to Paris, I was most impressed by the quality and caliber of the street musicians. Usually street performers around the world aren’t the best, and get people to give them money due to pity… but in Paris I want to give them money because they are actually talented! This is a collection of some of the best street musicians that I captured during my trip. Highlights of this video include a 20 member teenage band by the Eifel Tower, Violin played in a subway station, and a puppet show in a subway car.
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This video showcases the Lovers Bridge ( Pont des Arts ) in Paris France, located near the corner of the Louvre musuem, just a block from the Louvre-Rivoli metro stop. The bridge is famous as a place where lovers come to show their love by placing a “lock” on the bridge for each other. The locks are in many shapes and sizes and some are pretty awesome.
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The Chateau Versaille in Paris France had a special exhibit from Sep-Dec 2010 of Japanese sculpture from Takashi Murakami. This video shows highlights from the exhibit.
Some of the art was commissioned specifically for this exhibit. It’s really neat to see this sort of Japanese art in a French palace. A very neat juxtaposition.
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A pretty cool way to tour the Garden of Versaille at the Palace of Versaille in France is using the little electric golf carts. For 30 euro for one hour, it’s not cheap, but it really does save your feet because the gardens are massive in size. A neat future of the carts is that they have a GPS Enabled audio guide. When the cart approaches significant areas in the garden an informative summary is provided automatically. Super neat! This video shows the golf carts in action!
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Continuing the Italy videos from 2006, this is the fiinal part, our trip to Rome.
The video starts with a tour of our small, and humble hotel room in the Hotel Gulio Cesare. We then continue with an overview of types of roman restaurants, visit the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps, take a trip on a musical subway car complete with graffiti, check out the 1000 year old Pantheon and Collesuem, visit the church of illusions, stick our hands in the mouth of truth, and visit the Vatican.
Back in 2006, Tanya and I visited Italy, Venice, Florence, and Rome. Here is the first part, the video from Venice. We also visited the islands of Murano, and Burano.
I think this has to be the strangest museum in Paris…. The Le Musée des Égouts de Paris or the Paris Sewer Museum. A museum dedicated to the sewer system of Paris. The museum is actually inside the cities running sewers.
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The most photographed statue of a gargoyle in the world is on top of the Notre Dame Church in Paris France. In this video Chris introduces you to him, and his other friends on top of the church.
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In October I visited Paris. Of course you can’t go to Paris without checking out the Eifel Tower. The line for the elevator was nearly two hours long! So of course I took the stairs!
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In early March I visited Amsterdam. The trip was fun, with the exception of the fact that I must’ve eaten something not so kosher the first day, and I ended up with the dutch version of “Montezuma’s revenge” (throwing up in to the hotel toilet for two days — good times).
But once I got better, I was able to go check out some of the sights in Amsterdam.
Highlights of the video include the Canals, a three story bicycle garage, the narrowest house in Amsterdam, the “Smart District” with the Marijuana selling Coffee Shops, and the Red Light District.
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On November 15 Chris visited London, in the United Kingdom. The video highlights include the Tower of London, After-Noon tea at Harrods and the Orangery, Eating Scones, Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, Riding the Underground (Tube), Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park Speakers Corner, and the London Eye.
Check it out yo!
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And the final stop on Chris and Topher’s most excellent Scandinavia Adventure… Norway for the Norway in a Nutshell railway tour. This was definitely the most picturesque country of our tour.
The Norway in a Nutshell route begins in Oslo, pauses for a Fjord Tour, and concludes in Bergen. You have to see this video… we were they on July 3, and there was still snow!
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