Category Archives: Travel

A ferd til Hvalfjörður (A trip to Whale-fjord)

By Jessie | Published: February 5, 2010 1 Comment
A and I took a road trip to Hvalfjörður, or Whale-fjord, not long ago.  We took the scenic route there, and stopped along the way to check out a river that had frozen over.  This is what I love about Iceland:  you can drive a matter of minutes outside of Reykjavík proper and spot something [...]
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Don’t forget to look up

By Jessie | Published: February 3, 2010 Leave a comment
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James Ensor

By Jessie | Published: February 2, 2010 Leave a comment
I spent some time wandering the streets and museums of Paris just before Christmas, and stumbled upon a really intriguing exhibition on Belgian artist James Ensor at the Musée d’Orsay.  There are many popular and beautiful pieces at this museum from the likes of Gauguin, Monet, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Van Gogh, Vuillard, etc., but I [...]
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A walk on the beach

By Jessie | Published: December 21, 2009 Leave a comment
Missing the warm Barcelona beach today.  I have always dreamt of having a tiny space to live near the ocean.  Someday.
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Alienation

By Jessie | Published: December 12, 2009 Leave a comment
Photography is the product of complete alienation. – Marcel Proust
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Barcelona Part Five: Gaudí’s Sagrada Família

By Jessie | Published: November 25, 2009 Leave a comment
I think this will be my last post on Gaudí and his mesmerizing mind.  It all kind of culminates here, anyway.  One of the many things I learned about Gaudí is the shroud of mystery that still surrounds him.  In all probability, the mist that prevents us from gaining access to his work is the [...]
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Barcelona, part four: Gaudí’s garden city, Park Guell

By Jessie | Published: November 23, 2009 Comments closed
On a piece of land in the Barcelona district of La Salut, Eusebi Guell wanted to build an urbanization inspired by the concept of the garden city.  In this he sought to return to nature, health and an escape from the industrialized city.  Gaudí, assisted by Rubió Berenguer and Jujol, worked on the concept of [...]
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Barcelona, part three: Gaudí’s Casa Mila!

By Jessie | Published: November 22, 2009 Leave a comment
The widow Rose Segimon, heir to a vast fortune amassed by her first husband in the American colonies, remarried Pere Milá, an important Barcelona businessman.  The wealthy couple wanted to build a residence in Passeig de Gracia, so they hired the most expensive and famous architect at the time — Antoni Gaudí.  The construction took [...]
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