Platja d’en Pere fet, Cadaqués, Spain, June 2018.
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Tag: travel
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Friday Photo: Platja d’en Pere fet, Cadaqués, Spain
Posted at 9:46 am , on June 29, 2018
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Friday Photo: Guardians on the Roof Terrace of La Padrera
Posted at 4:03 pm , on June 22, 2018
Guardians on the Roof Terrace of La Padrera, aka Casa Milà, by Antoni Gaudí, Barcelona, Spain, June 2018
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Friday Photo: Swimming Pool, Salvador Dalí
Posted at 8:45 am , on June 15, 2018
Swimming Pool, 1970, by Salvador Dalí, Port Lligat, Spain, June 2018
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Friday Photo: Florence, Italy
Posted at 12:12 pm , on April 6, 2018
Giotto’s Campanile as seen from the Duomo, Florence, Italy, March 2006.
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Hello, Cleveland
Posted at 8:13 am , on July 28, 2017
A famous sign
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#tbt: 10 years ago when we were rockstars
Posted at 12:50 pm , on July 20, 2017
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Scenes from Montreal
Posted at 9:21 am , on April 18, 2017
Teresa Margolles: Mundos at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Subway entrance, Montreal
Boulangerie Guillaume, Montreal
A scene from the Underground City
Palais des congrès de Montréal
Chinatown, Montreal -
‘Just like everything else in nature’
Posted at 9:49 am , on August 11, 2016
Here’s another bit of English from Korea. Here’s more info about the the firm that made these, Lufdesign.
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English is Seoul: Part 1 — Signs on buildings
Posted at 9:34 pm , on August 2, 2016
As an English speaker, when traveling abroad my eye often goes straight for written English. I found this to be especially true when traveling around South Korea last month. Even though some Chinese characters are used in Korea, and I know a few having lived in Japan in my youth, the Hangul writing system is prominent throughout the country and remains foreign to me.
Yes, I’ve heard that in just a few hours a person could learn how to sound out the Hangul writing system. It consists of 19 consonant and 21 vowel letters, which makes it sound easy to learn; however, the letters are arranged in blocks to form syllables that can look like Chinese characters. Mathematically, that means more than 11,000 syllables could be formed, though about 256 are commonly used. So in my preparation for the trip, I decided to forego learning how to read and to focus on learning how to speak a few key phrases, and how to listen (I was even told that I had good Korean pronunciation).
Anyway, did you know that there are “only” about 375 million native English speakers in the world, though 1.5 billion people are said to be able to speak English? English is all over Korea. Most of it is perfectly fine. Some of it is strange.
Here are some signs in English from Seoul.
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