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a silver bear with sunglasses waves from a roof deck backdropped by a Haida-inspired mural.

Meandering Around the Murals of Main Street in Vancouver

October 8, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

Lately I’ve been walking around Vancouver’s neighbourhoods checking out the murals. Plus any other oddball thing that catches my attention. I made my way down Broadway past the old Bow […]

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BC, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
Gardel was the man who first put words to tangos creating a sensation around much of the Americas and Europe. This great tango singer shows up on this decorative painted filete mural in Buenos Aires

Fileteado Porteño, a Style of Painting from Buenos Aires

May 7, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

This decorative painted style, very popular in Buenos Aires, is called ‘Fileteado Porteño’, ‘porteños’ being what the inhabitants of Buenos Aires call themselves. The colourful style, with its painted swirls […]

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Argentina, Art
Diego Rivera mural of the Mayan using cocoa beans to buy corn

The Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera in Mexico City

March 20, 2020by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

The Mexican Revolution, a civil war that raged from 1910 to 1920, ousted the hated dictator Porfirio Díaz and created a new era with the government being in the hands […]

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Art, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Mexico
Comic mural in Brussels, Belgium

A Walking Tour of the Comic Book Murals of Brussels, Belgium

July 11, 2019by Albatz Travel Adventures 8 Comments

Belgium is famous for its array of comic books, and in Brussels there is not only a Comic Museum but also a walking tour where the many fanciful characters escape the […]

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Brussels Cartoon Mural on a Building Wall

Walls From Around the World

July 10, 2019by Albatz Travel Adventures 9 Comments

A collection of walls from around the world. In Hue, the royal city of Vietnam, the walls of the palace are painted imperial yellow. In nearby Hoi An it appears […]

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Collections from Around the World, Weekly Photo Challenge
Rubenlund - family portraits on a wall

Portraits in Denmark

March 19, 2019by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

In Denmark it seemed as if there were more portraits than in other places. I’m not sure if that’s true but here are a few I noticed in particular. Family […]

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Art, Denmark, Photo Challenges
Beautiful patterns of a flint stone in the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen

Patterns In (and With) Flint Stones

August 11, 2018by Albatz Travel Adventures 8 Comments

Although we must have flint in Canada I have only ever seen flint beaches in Europe where I couldn’t resist picking up a few as souvenirs. One part of the […]

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Europe, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
Ladder up against a wall at the Mural Festival in Vancouver, Canada

The Mural Festival On (& Off) Main (Vancouver)

July 19, 2018by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

Although some countries have had ‘murals’ for thousands of years (cave paintings, Mexico, Egypt come to mind) there now seems to be a world mural craze, and Vancouver jumped in […]

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BC, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge
A mural on the wall of the Boca Juniors 'Futbol' Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Murals from Around the World

July 17, 2018by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

Murals are trending in cities around the world right now. Mexico got a head start on murals. I’m fond of their modern-day murals which often contain the magic of the […]

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Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Collections from Around the World
Orozco's painted ceilings

WPC: Looking Up at Orozco’s Painted Ceilings In Guadalajara

July 8, 2016by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

Lying down, looking up. What were they doing? It turned out that they were looking up at one of José Orozco’s masterpieces, the ‘Man of Fire’ that graced the domed […]

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Mexico, One Word Photo Challenge, Weekly Photo Challenge

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