Entries from 'streetart'

Day 333

Montreal Street Art! There are some awesome murals in Montreal partly thanks to a yearly mural festival held in June. These are just a fraction of the great stuff mostly around the plateau and mile end, and there is tonnes more downtown and in some other suburbs of Montreal.

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Day 312

The first thing anyone will notice when visiting Valparaíso is the street art. Its EVERYWHERE and it complements the cityscape perfectly as it is traditional in Valpo to paint your house bright colours, without city planning the cityscape is haphazard at best plus the locals love it. These are just a fraction of the pieces we…

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Day 240

Today I woke up a sad sad panda. Last night I stupidly left my awesome amazing Bota Bag (spanish wine drinking vessel) on the bus! Its the best drink bottle I have ever had and it was the second one I had purchased on this trip after the last one sprung a leak in Greece….

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Day 97

Im not exactly sure what it was that made me instantly like Ljubljana. I had no previous knowledge about the city before jumping on the bus, I hadn’t heard any opinions on it, had no idea how big/small or what kind of city it was. Maybe it was because I was a bit drunk… I…

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Day 61

Obrigado Lisbon! today I say goodbye to Lisbon. This city is amazing, it has definitely been one of, if not my favourite city so far. I love Its winding streets and the characters who fill them, its cheap beer, Barrio Alto (although it does get a bit repetitive after 3 nights in a row), portuguese…

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Day 53

Lisbons street art is sweet, its grungy as hell, cheap, friendly, full of drug dealers trying to peddle coke (which is actually limestone) and DMT (which is actually butter menthol). Fraser arrived in Lisbon today so we went for a wander, saw the old church ruins, some more rad street art and tried the local…

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Day 32

London Street Art! Today was my last full day in London. Its been pretty amazing. I never really had much interest in the UK at all growing up, which I think was something to do with the dreary weather, but London is so lively, what it lacks in sunlight is makes up for in other…

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Day 29

Today I spent a lovely day sitting at a train station waiting for my friend Tascha who is also coming to stay with my couchsurfing host. It was great! I read a bunch of my book. Luckily im really into my book, otherwise I would be angry at loveable Tascha. Before I spent most of my…

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