Flora & fauna, ii
3 December 2008
Trellis in Victoria Park.
A house in the Peñamefécit, my barrio, the strip of houses between the Avenida de Barcelona & the Calle de Andalucía (Gran Eje) against the mountain, stretching west & north from the city center.
The newstand & florists’ are next to a handful of good tapas bars – Bar del Pósito, El Bodegón, Deán’s – & an old marble column, out of frame, & on the stairs is my favorite piece of graffiti in the city.
5 December 2008 at 7:01 pm
My God! I LOVE THESE! Especially that second one. Awesome composition.
10 March 2009 at 3:05 pm
Some nice work here. Great pic of the newsstand. I used to spend time in Jaen some 25-30 yrs ago. I sat in the Victoria park often, reading El Pais or the Diario, waiting for my local girlfriend.
Have fun.
24 March 2009 at 10:18 am
Eddy,
The newsstand picture is my favorite so far; by no means am I a photographer.
Thanks for coming by, & sorry to take so long in responding to you. I do like Victoria park a lot.
What was Jaén like 25 years ago? A lot of the development west of the city must be new, to say nothing of the Corté Íngles they plopped in the center of town five years ago. How did you find it then?
Jim
28 March 2009 at 1:52 am
Thanks, Jim -
Jaen back then was much smaller than it is now, I guess. Much quieter. I saw the new development on Google Earth.
I liked walking from the old Hotel Rey Fernando, above the bus station, to the old railway Station. There, at the end of the Paseo, the own ended. You could walk from there to Granada and see nothing but old farms and olive trees.
I put some pictures on Flickr. You can use them if you want to.
In 1980 they tore down the old market place. I loved it there. Sharks lay on the stone floor, caught the night before.
When they destroyed the old station I was there, too. Symbolic, maybe.
If you want to know more, please ask,
with kind regards,
Eddy Allart