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IOTW: Torre Jaume I and cable car

Bruce — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:52:59 +0000

During our visit to Barcelona in 2003 we took the cable car down from Castell De Montjuic to the harbour. This view is from Torre Sant Sebastian looking towards Torre Jaume I, and beyond to Palau Nacional & Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Click thumbnail to enlarge image Torre Jaume I, Barcelona Want to see more from IOTW? Click here for an archive view.

A hole dug in NZ would come out where?

Bruce — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:43:08 +0000

From http://www.bioneural.net :

This is a question I remember reflecting upon as a kid. If I dug straight down from my back yard in New Zealand, passing through the Earth's core, where would my hole come out? A new application utilising Google Earth now provides the answer. Try it out here. If I were to dig in Clevedon (South Auckland), I would surface (ignoring the molten core issue) in Andalucia, Spain—as near as I can tell: So, dig at home here: And surface here (Alcazaba, Alhambra), perhaps?: Right, who's taking first shift with the spade?

A week in Andalucia

Bruce — Sat, 14 May 2005 16:08:42 +0000

From http://www.bioneural.net :

We went on a week-long organised tour of Spain's Andalucia region in late April 2005. We became briefly acquainted with Mijas, Ronda, Seville, Córdoba, and Granada. The highlight was to be the Alhambra in Granada (a city we liked), but instead was probably an operatic walk around a city we didn't much care for—Seville. Mijas on the Costa del Sol was a short drive from Malaga airport, a small town apparently known for being mostly white. It's true, most of the buildings there are white, although splashes of colour were in abundant evidence in the form of other tourists, tourist shops, and signs to attract tourists to poor quality eating establishments. Whitewash, Mijas Westward is the town of Ronda, sitting on top of a plateau and split in two by a gorge across which runs that famous stone bridge you've likely seen in photos. The views of the surrounding countryside were rather nice, with a pleasant garden and lookouts not too far from the bullring. Speaking of which, the bullring we were told is the oldest in Spain, and was originally conceived to facilitate an education in the art of gladiatorial combat. Bullring, Ronda Seville was noteworthy for being duller than expected. Why? We're not exactly sure—but it seemed somehow lacking in soul. We dutifully took our pictures in and around the Spanish Pavillion, the Alcazar, the Cathedral, and of some of the beautiful façades. Why is it, incidentally, that security guards get upset if you put your camera with mini-tripod on the floor to ...