Briefest of the brief 2 day update:
Thurs: Not a lot, then out in SOuthside - went to Locker Room which I didn't like then Jack's and Bar 11 - score on both fronts - ropey dives the pair of them, suited me down to the ground:
Friday - Bought a variety of Penguins merchandise for various people. Picked up a Ben Rothlisberger steelers jersey for 31 bucks - was the only player I recognised there, Polamalu was in the Macy's across town. Rothlisberger is a good player but apparently is a bit of an arse. 31 bucks I ain't complaining! Will wear it SuperBowl Sunday, right now leaning towards the Colts but will see how much I get insulted for it ;)
Also went to Carnegie Sports Science museum - was for kids but was fun. Went up mount washington for awesomest of awesome city views - pics to follow.
Went to Warhol museum, spent about 2-3 hours just on the eugenics installation. Powerful and delicately presented stuff (not the hamfisted horror show they could have done). Finally we ate at Brew House - a converted church that is a resataurant (amazing Pizza!) and in place of an altar there is a Micro Brewery. If only other churches would follow this fine tradition!
All flights were good, Nick got his Zune. We spent half an hour or so sending songs across the wireless just cos we could. Then he had to go home and do grown up things with kitchen tiles.
Proper updates once I transfer the photos on to this machine etc. Prob later in the week, I know I need to be in work a few hours early tomorrow and Tuesday just to catch up and get some things done - I did a bad thing and peeked at my work email on Friday morning. I know, I was still on holiday! However it did give me a heads up so I will be prepared for the morning!
OK, my brain says it's 6am which puts me just a little before the 24 hours awake boundary. It's going to be fun trying to stay awake til this evening!
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Sunday, 28 January 2007
Monday, 22 January 2007
Sleepless in Pittsburgh
So we went to Philly this weekend, arrived at the hotel around midnight so I stopped for some drinks at the bar, the barman was an arse and pretty sure he over charged us in between complaining about how he should have made a billion dollars inn tips that night.
Anyway, I chose this point in my trip to sleep past noon, I have no idea why this is the case - Bushmills Whiskey not withstanding. Anyway, we went into Philadelphia in the afternoon and drove around to get ur bearings. We managed to spend some time in the Independence centre which was actually quite cool. I have some pics of an area we later found out we weren't meant to take pictures of, it was actually pretty cool inside but will pro do a post on it or just fail to bore you with it entirely. Obviously we swung by the Rocky steps too!
I managed to prop up the hotel bar with a few more bar flys and a far cooler bar tender for the duration of the evening. We would have gone out somewhere in Philly but 'Hotel in Philadelphia' can mean anything up to hour out of the city!
Next day, I managed once again to sleep in thought considering the quantities of Bushmills I was consuming this is less surprising. The barman hardly charged me for any of my drinks and the measures he wsa giving me were ludicrous, I don't normaqlly drink whiskey striaght but Bushmills is really nice.
Anyway we went back to the Philadelphia Museum of Art which is mind blowing, they had so much cool stuff there. I don't know how many of you saw my picture of 'Boy with Duck' in my Carnegie Museum of Art adventure,but here they had 'Boy with Rooster'. I am now convinced they is one of these in every American museum. On top of that they had Picasso (Sunflowers and others), Degas, Constable, Pollack, Turner and hundreds of others. We were there most of the afternoon, I didn't get to see it all. I have lots of pics but a lot are rubbish. Again there was a section where I was inexplicably not alowed to take photos 'Hey! No photos sir! this is a special exhibition!'. 'Are you quite sure? It looks like some has just dropped a neon sign here'.
Don't worry, I was able to keep my mouth shut when yelled at by the uniformed troglodyte! I only got pissed off because there was no explanation as to why or indeed any signs explaining that photos weren't allowed in the Bar Sign room. It would appear that I am back tp my waking up at the crack of dawn self. Philadelphia, along with being the City of Brotherly love, would also appear to be a sedative.
Anyways pics later.
Anyway, I chose this point in my trip to sleep past noon, I have no idea why this is the case - Bushmills Whiskey not withstanding. Anyway, we went into Philadelphia in the afternoon and drove around to get ur bearings. We managed to spend some time in the Independence centre which was actually quite cool. I have some pics of an area we later found out we weren't meant to take pictures of, it was actually pretty cool inside but will pro do a post on it or just fail to bore you with it entirely. Obviously we swung by the Rocky steps too!
I managed to prop up the hotel bar with a few more bar flys and a far cooler bar tender for the duration of the evening. We would have gone out somewhere in Philly but 'Hotel in Philadelphia' can mean anything up to hour out of the city!
Next day, I managed once again to sleep in thought considering the quantities of Bushmills I was consuming this is less surprising. The barman hardly charged me for any of my drinks and the measures he wsa giving me were ludicrous, I don't normaqlly drink whiskey striaght but Bushmills is really nice.
Anyway we went back to the Philadelphia Museum of Art which is mind blowing, they had so much cool stuff there. I don't know how many of you saw my picture of 'Boy with Duck' in my Carnegie Museum of Art adventure,but here they had 'Boy with Rooster'. I am now convinced they is one of these in every American museum. On top of that they had Picasso (Sunflowers and others), Degas, Constable, Pollack, Turner and hundreds of others. We were there most of the afternoon, I didn't get to see it all. I have lots of pics but a lot are rubbish. Again there was a section where I was inexplicably not alowed to take photos 'Hey! No photos sir! this is a special exhibition!'. 'Are you quite sure? It looks like some has just dropped a neon sign here'.
Don't worry, I was able to keep my mouth shut when yelled at by the uniformed troglodyte! I only got pissed off because there was no explanation as to why or indeed any signs explaining that photos weren't allowed in the Bar Sign room. It would appear that I am back tp my waking up at the crack of dawn self. Philadelphia, along with being the City of Brotherly love, would also appear to be a sedative.
Anyways pics later.
Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Matt Jones - Super Tourist!
OK, So today I am loving everything I did and everyone who spoke to me. I left this morning for the Carnegie Art Museum which must be some kind of secret because it was virtually empty. I also did the natural history museum but I was underwhelmed by that purely as I liked the Art gallery so much, and the fact they have closed a whole load of it off while they expand the Dinosaur exhibit - it was mostly animals you see on Discovery. It was still cool though, it's just I liked the art place.
What I really liked is that it wasn't all paintings and sculptures, they put furniture in there too which I think added a fair amount. It went from early American and European art right through to the modern day. There was also some African art, some Asian etc. That was a little haphazrd, almost an afterthought but they have some cool stuff.
I was particularly interested in the Rembrandt display they had on, I'd seen a couple of original etchings of 'Christ Between two Thieves' at the British Museum - State 3 and State 4 I think. They only had State 4 here, but they had a whole load more of his etchings that were pretty interesting to see.
I ntook a lot of pictures, most of them lame but I'll upload some tomorrow for you to see, I was pleased to see some Pittsburgh homegrown pieces in there too. All the museum people were awesome and friendly and really enthusiastic about the building, it's a proper gem.
Halfway through the Museum Stefan called me (Maria loned me her phone for the day) saying we should queue for Pens tickets. I got back to Maria's place around 3pm, and immediately got a call from April and a message from Pedr back home. Some guy called Kevin at Cincinatti had been going through my contacts calling everyone asking them to get me to call him so he could get my phone to me. The guy is a legend,he must've called a whole bunch of people before the message got to me but he persisited and he's let me know how I can get the phone back.
Queued for Pens tickets - a couple of the team stars (Maxim Talbot was one) came out an handed out Pizza to the queueing crowd, I was kinda keeping my head down, I didn't want to steal the thunder of uys who actually know who they are! Still, it was anice touch. Then the news crews were abound, I know I ended up in the background of a 5 o'clock news broadcast, thanks to a timely shove from Stefan. Thankfully the new s guy didn't end up talking to the one guy in the queue without any idea of what was going on.
Anyway, Stefan and I took a bunch of pics and Stefan caught some film footage too, so I'll upload that when i get the chance. An absolute peach of a steward took our picture at the end, and made sure to get the score board in the frame so that's definitely one that's getting printed off.
So after a slow start I have become some kind of living embodiment of a tourist. Go me. Anyway, pics and links tomorrow.
What I really liked is that it wasn't all paintings and sculptures, they put furniture in there too which I think added a fair amount. It went from early American and European art right through to the modern day. There was also some African art, some Asian etc. That was a little haphazrd, almost an afterthought but they have some cool stuff.
I was particularly interested in the Rembrandt display they had on, I'd seen a couple of original etchings of 'Christ Between two Thieves' at the British Museum - State 3 and State 4 I think. They only had State 4 here, but they had a whole load more of his etchings that were pretty interesting to see.
I ntook a lot of pictures, most of them lame but I'll upload some tomorrow for you to see, I was pleased to see some Pittsburgh homegrown pieces in there too. All the museum people were awesome and friendly and really enthusiastic about the building, it's a proper gem.
Halfway through the Museum Stefan called me (Maria loned me her phone for the day) saying we should queue for Pens tickets. I got back to Maria's place around 3pm, and immediately got a call from April and a message from Pedr back home. Some guy called Kevin at Cincinatti had been going through my contacts calling everyone asking them to get me to call him so he could get my phone to me. The guy is a legend,he must've called a whole bunch of people before the message got to me but he persisited and he's let me know how I can get the phone back.
Queued for Pens tickets - a couple of the team stars (Maxim Talbot was one) came out an handed out Pizza to the queueing crowd, I was kinda keeping my head down, I didn't want to steal the thunder of uys who actually know who they are! Still, it was anice touch. Then the news crews were abound, I know I ended up in the background of a 5 o'clock news broadcast, thanks to a timely shove from Stefan. Thankfully the new s guy didn't end up talking to the one guy in the queue without any idea of what was going on.
Anyway, Stefan and I took a bunch of pics and Stefan caught some film footage too, so I'll upload that when i get the chance. An absolute peach of a steward took our picture at the end, and made sure to get the score board in the frame so that's definitely one that's getting printed off.
So after a slow start I have become some kind of living embodiment of a tourist. Go me. Anyway, pics and links tomorrow.
I'm stepping outside, I may be sometime...
It's snowing here and I have just checked mapquest and found out just how close the carnegie Museum of Art is. I am a dummy. I am going to brave the weather and be a proper tourist.
Piccies later!
Piccies later!
Monday, 15 January 2007
Ok, so now I have a plan
Firstly, a few pics from last night.
Me and Stefan at Spice bar, I am holding my hands in the Dick Emery 'Camper than a feather boa' pose.
Me and Maja - again I've gone for the 'Gayer than a very gay thing' look. Also my head is fatter than I remember - it must be a wide-screen camera.
This is Stefan's friend Kataline (dunno the spelling lol!)
Maja's friend Bilal turned up later and we all went for a curry upstairs, was wicked and I managed to try a Yeungling's ale. Not as nice as Iron City I have to say, which is a good thing cos I have a case of that stuff sat here while I type!
Anyways, today maja and Stefan got out of bed pretty late and the weather kinda sucked. Also everywhere worth going appeared to be closed, except Phipps conservatory which it got a bit late for. What was cool though, was that in between experiements Maria took me round the city in her car and I was able to see how easy to get at stuff was. There is a load of stuff right near the University where she works, I'm really looking forward to the Cathedral of Learning - I've refrained from photographing it until I can go look at it properly. It looks awesome.
The houses here are great, it's like no two are alike and the style is totally different between areas. I'll be doind another tour next week ad I will take some pics.
We are off to Philly at the weekend to see some stuff and maybe catch up with one of Maria's friends, it'll be pretty cool just to have a look at somewhere else.
This week i am gonna try do at least the Phipps and the Carnegie Museum of Art, and totally got to do the Warhol museum, they have some awesome stuf in there. I think last night and today my brain has properly kicked in - I don't htink I'd ever take a 1 week trip this far.
Anyway, more later ;)
Me and Stefan at Spice bar, I am holding my hands in the Dick Emery 'Camper than a feather boa' pose.
Me and Maja - again I've gone for the 'Gayer than a very gay thing' look. Also my head is fatter than I remember - it must be a wide-screen camera.
This is Stefan's friend Kataline (dunno the spelling lol!)
Maja's friend Bilal turned up later and we all went for a curry upstairs, was wicked and I managed to try a Yeungling's ale. Not as nice as Iron City I have to say, which is a good thing cos I have a case of that stuff sat here while I type!
Anyways, today maja and Stefan got out of bed pretty late and the weather kinda sucked. Also everywhere worth going appeared to be closed, except Phipps conservatory which it got a bit late for. What was cool though, was that in between experiements Maria took me round the city in her car and I was able to see how easy to get at stuff was. There is a load of stuff right near the University where she works, I'm really looking forward to the Cathedral of Learning - I've refrained from photographing it until I can go look at it properly. It looks awesome.
The houses here are great, it's like no two are alike and the style is totally different between areas. I'll be doind another tour next week ad I will take some pics.
We are off to Philly at the weekend to see some stuff and maybe catch up with one of Maria's friends, it'll be pretty cool just to have a look at somewhere else.
This week i am gonna try do at least the Phipps and the Carnegie Museum of Art, and totally got to do the Warhol museum, they have some awesome stuf in there. I think last night and today my brain has properly kicked in - I don't htink I'd ever take a 1 week trip this far.
Anyway, more later ;)
Spice Bar
At some point today or tomorrow I am hoping to go to one of the Carnegie museums, not sure what the situation with opening times is today though as it's Martin Luthor King day.
Went to Spice Bar last night which is beneath the India Garden restaurant, I really liked the bar as it kind of looked like a pub. For reasons best know to themselves they serve Newcastle Brown Ale on tap. I stuck to Mr Daniels, though I plan an Iron City session soon as my body gets used to the time zone.
Should be some pics later, we met up with a couple of guys who are friends of maja and Stefan. The pics are on maja's camera and have to wait for her to get her lazy arse out of bed lol!
More later, hope to get some more interesting pics up soon as I actually start the tourist thing!
Went to Spice Bar last night which is beneath the India Garden restaurant, I really liked the bar as it kind of looked like a pub. For reasons best know to themselves they serve Newcastle Brown Ale on tap. I stuck to Mr Daniels, though I plan an Iron City session soon as my body gets used to the time zone.
Should be some pics later, we met up with a couple of guys who are friends of maja and Stefan. The pics are on maja's camera and have to wait for her to get her lazy arse out of bed lol!
More later, hope to get some more interesting pics up soon as I actually start the tourist thing!
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