A day in the life....or My City....Picture overload... :)

[malvernrob]

So I was downtown this morning for an 'appointment' *cough* *cough* and I decided to take my camera with me. I haven't been downtown in ages as I prefer to spend my days off now resting at home rather than gallivanting all over the place. So behind the cut are a lot of pictures for your enjoyment.

Comments

[msmoocow]

EMPANADA. WANT. NOW.

Nice pictures, by the way. :)

[malvernrob]

I was going to take a picture of the "Neville Park" streetcar but I couldn't get my camera out in time. I think i posted a picture of that before.

[Though if I get the job I went for the interview for I won't be coming to San Fran in November :( I'll have to come at another time instead :) ]

[9t9]

There is actually a James Potter Elementary school not far from where I live. You have inspired me to go take a photo and post it one of these days. It is brand new and the school is on James Potter Drive-what a weird choice of name, no?

[9t9]

LOL! A nice overview of the area. The multi-cultural area is Kensington, right? I have bought many a pair of shoes at C-squared next to the comic shop :)

[malvernrob]

Yeah that is Kensington.

I'm not surprised they do have a lot of nice stores there. :)

[kerosinkanister]

I think I'm most impressed by the supercool trashcan.

[malvernrob]

What the "Dirty Dancing" streetcar didn't interest you? :-P

[sowritesauds]

Love the pictures! Wish I lived in a city with so much to see... from hot pink trash cans to yummy empanadas.

[kirsty_lou6487]

Gah. I'm jealous. It all looks so vibrant and alive! I'd love to be able to walk down the road and feel like I was in another country! All I've got is the Polish Newsagets (it sells Bison Grass Vodka!) down the road. Which is beside the African Hair Care place, across from the Indian Spice Shop and the local Chinese. That's pretty much all the rest of the world gets in Aberdeen. Scotland is not multi-cultural in the slightest. Probably cos it's almost to small to squeeze our own culture into in the first place!

Haha - 'Ancient' buildings... When I think ancient I think Hadrian's wall. :P Are they C19th? They look like some of the 'newer' buildings we have on campus. Gotta love Scotland - we may not have loads of different cultures but we have bags of old history!

*feels smug about her 500 year old uni*

[malvernrob]

Indeed you do. See it's a win/win situation for everyone! :) 500 years ago this part of the earth was still trees and farmland for the natives.

I went to a relatively modern school without any old buildings which is in the middle of downtown so there is no large campus or anything. Old buildings...good to visit, drafty though.

Hadrian's wall........ha...........nothing more than a garden's fence now a days isn't it? :-P

[kirsty_lou6487]

Ah, see I could have spouted on about the iron age brochs and duns, but no one would know what I was talking about... Some of them - especially in Orkney, Shetland and the North West coast - are still standing pretty much as they would have hundreds of years ago. It's pretty cool. I remember one, on the coast, across from Skye, was still used by a 'witch' in the 1850s. She lived with her sheep and a cow. True story.

Old buildings are stupidly draughty. Nowt worse than trying to concentrate on the economy of C14th France when there's a wind blowing through the classroom and you can't feel your fingers. That said, I think I'd give up having warm hands for a bit of history. Some of NEW new buildings on campus are so ugly they make me sad. Totally spoils the impact of the pretty medieval ones.

[malvernrob]

:( The sheep and the cow and the lady living alone. That's making me sad for some reason. But anyways, old buildings have character. New buildings don't. Or at least most of them don't. What can you do? What is the name of school you went to? Aberdeen sounds like a pleasant place to visit.