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Doc, ever got to the "sun n fun" fly in's? Those are great weekends. Kind of similar i suppose.

DST, that looks fantastic! Love the artwork ... nicely done. Loved the Spanish pics too. Have you been to the Alhambra? So awesome....
 
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Spain is so beautiful..... One of my very fav places to go. The Alhambra is an amazing place.... so well designed for the environment. Ahead of it's time...
 
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that is one wicked ass looking magik temple wall hosue hut thing. it's all higledy piggledy however that is spelt :P but i love it, looks mint.
 
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CrackerJax said:
Doc, ever got to the "sun n fun" fly in's? Those are great weekends. Kind of similar i suppose.

DST, that looks fantastic! Love the artwork ... nicely done. Loved the Spanish pics too. Have you been to the Alhambra? So awesome....
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No, is that the Pensacola one where the Blue Angels come home?
 
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It an annual event that takes place in Oshkosh Wisconsin (summer) and Lakeland Florida (winter), and it's exactly what it sounds like... there's bike week for motorcycles and there's "fly in" for aviators.
Some of the finest ultralights and manufacturers are there with balloons and military craft and all sorts of shows. there is a contest for prizes, and it's so much fun.

I've come close twice now in taking the plunge on an ultralight plane and helicopter.... it looks so appealing to me, especially the heli.
 
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that sounds fun :) wish we had that kind of thing more often in the UK (now's for someone to jump in and tell me i've been living in a hole and we do :P)

i'd pick up a plane or copter, either is great, copter more so though, like with my sailing iussues, i like the concept of reverse :P
 
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haha, i know, i'm more interested in being able to stop still while i'm up. as i said, i never really got into sailing as well stop damn it back back back you bitch! nay! :lol:

although planes are more like racing cars i guess, and that's more my way of doing things :) i've flown many times but never had the money to sort out a license.
 
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Sailing is one of the things I do enjoy doing. yes, there is no reverse, but it's much more than that in the respect of strategy. Sailing almost never lets you pick a line and follow it. It's all about thinking ahead and tacking in several directions at the correct time and place to get to a specific point, such as a harbor, or a BAR! :lol:

Reading the ocean as well as the land in harmony and sensing where the boat feels best is an art form, but so satisfying..... and a dang good work out. :wink:
 
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i was cocktailed up and in small catermarans and toppers etc off greece, but it was still fun direction be damned, nowt like hiking for an adrenaline rush (if that is the word i'm looking for? the whole lean over backwards whoaaaaaaa)
 
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heheh... sounds like good times!

When I was young, oh around 12 or so, we had a 12 foot sailboat made out of styrofoam ... styrofoam! So one day my Uncles takes me out in the Gulf of Mexico for what he said was a quick trip. so way out on the horizon were a bunch of boats fishing mackerel. So out we went.... about 10 miles out in a 12 foot styrofoam sailboat. the looks on those fisherman in their huge boats while we sailed by ... :lol:

I've been hooked on sailing ever since.
 
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I'm gonna guess that picture #7 of DST's Spain pics is at a Mosque. Am I right or wrong? :lol:

Or was it all in that one park?
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Thanks for the props CJ!!

Pic 7 is still the park, the last pic and the pic of the bench is the raised part of the park, like a mezzanine that looks over (I also took the view over Barcelona form there. Underneath that it is supported by those pillars you see in pic 7, and the whole ceiling is a mosaic, it's just bloody awesome.
When we went to speak to a tiling shop that specialises in mosaic, they quoted us €700 per m squared of mosaic!!
 
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No doubt that mosaic is a work of art in itself, and I can understand the price quote.

Okay, I thought that might have been a mosque because the architecture is quite similar, but since it is Spain, I'm not surprised at the borrowing of it. When I was in Morocco the first time, I had the privilege of going inside the second largest Mosque in the world. It was an amazing place and down below, underneath the Mosque proper was a huge fountain area where the ppl would come to wash before the service. The architecture was dead on.
 
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Spain has been awash in Muslim influence for hundreds of years. The Moors held sway over parts of Spain off and on for centuries. Yes, they are heavily influenced by Muslim architecture. The Alhambra is a crowning achievement representing that influence.
 
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