Tag: travel
Early Thanksgiving Pie
It’s not Portland’s PIE but it’s still good. 🙂
Yosemite Valley from the air
Snapped while flying into Fresno, CA this morning.
Budapest Meetup
Photos from last month’s Automattic meetup in Budapest. We were there for a week and had an absolute blast. It’d be fun to go back when the weather isn’t so dreary.
Status
I’m speaking tonight at the WordPress D.C. meetup which will be a lot of fun. The long title for my talk is, “Post formats: how they work, why they’re awesome, and how they’ll change the way you publish.” I’ll probably turn it into a blog post after the event as well.
Status
I’m in Minneapolis and CNN is running a segment on a woman who makes cookbooks of recipes collected from ghosts who talk to her. And we wonder why the news business is screwed…
More Marseille – Travel Log, Day 9
I spent my last day in Marseille seeing Notre-Dame de la Garde which sits on the top of the highest hill around and had some terrific views of the city. To get up there, my brother and I walked up some pretty steep, San Francisco-like streets.
The tower of Notre-Dame de la Garde is capped by a colossal statue of the Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus.
The interior had some amazing mosaics on the wall. It was a tremendous effect when combined with the striped stonework.
The views over the city and out to the Frioul Islands were terrific. You definitely get a sense of how Marseille is the second largest city in France.
After that I headed up to the Palais Longchamp to hang out in the park and read for a bit. Both museums were closed, one for renovation the other because it was Monday, but the park was nice.
Status
When you’re decent at Spanish but horrible with French context switching can be difficult. I just said “puedo tener un continental por favor.” Doh.
Marseille Graffiti – Travel Log, Day 8
Yesterday the plan was to see a few museums and then head out to Olympique de Marseille to watch the match against Brest. For some reason the two museums I wanted to catch weren’t open despite their hours clearly stating that they were.
Instead I walked around and snapped some photos of the graffiti stores put on their shutters. It’s kind of a bonus ad for when your business is closed. Even the Leica shop got into it. Pretty cool.
Photos, and hopefully some video, from the football match will be coming later.
Château d’If & Frioul Islands – Travel Log, Day 7
I spent my second day in Marseille out on a series of islands that are a 20 minute boat ride away. The first island barely fits the Château d’If that perches on top of it. The castle itself is relatively basic and bare but it gives some great views back to Marseille and the surrounding islands.
From there my brother and I headed to the nearby Frioul islands. These have a few forts on them and include a hospital that was used for plague patients a few centuries ago. The water is gorgeous and we found a quiet cove to just hang out in. I got some great reading time in too.
After that we headed back to Marseille. The boat ride back had cool views of the harbor and surrounding buildings that you don’t see from land.
