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Back to school

 I haven't updated this blog in a while, but here the big news, I am back at school well in college.

I also decided to start a new blog where I will compile, statistics and other randoms thought, you can check it here:

https://tofguerrier.github.io/

Thanks for the memories

Last weekend, i was walking in Pery Square and my heart sunk when i discover that door...
fully repainted in black - how suiting, with a number nailed on it. 

The place is being reconverted into offices, peering though some window i could see the demolition work in progress. Sad day, the closing and reconversion happened months ago, but being away at that time, i did not notice it happening.
This place used to be "The Wicked Chicken", an iconic place of the limerick nightlife for many of us, and also for me a place of many fond memories, where i met many of my past and current friends.
Gone is the red door...

With the sign on the left side...

The little sign ...

The graffitis in the smoking area have been painted over... 

I still remember the first time i step into the place, the atmosphere was hypnotic, the music had my heart stopping, and the crowd looks genuinely friendly and happy, it was a mix of open minded different nationalities.

At one stage the place was the required meeting point for the start of any good night out. 

 
I remember going there on sunday night and monday night for a quiet chat, the barman preparing our drinks before we even ask, and looking surprised every-time we would change from our habitual drink of choice.

I remember the first time i saw people in that place, that i now consider my friends, the 3 sisters at the end of the bar, the ever wearing cap barman, the man from castlegregory ... etc ...

Maybe I should have taken more pictures of the place, as I am searching through my files, and being annoyed not to find a photo of this or this particular feature, like the headless chicken or the pictures on the wall, some picture of friends - some deceased. 

Like this Giger painting, which funnily i also had in my student bedroom, years ago back in France.
I shall not forget the DJ in that place, which made it came alive, when on a friday or saturday night all the bodies would come pouring in the tiny place around 11, for a good old bop.

In the basement

There was also a downstairs, were some gigs were held, from punk-rock, to hip-hop new-york singer. I saw DJ Andy Smith down there, for some of the nothern soul mix i've heard in a club, along with some amazing boppers.

Sadly everything must comes to an end, people moved on, to other countries, to having babies... and slowly there was less and less people. At one stage the place closed down - in 2011 I think, I am happy i was there for the party on that day, it was impressive to see some many of the old figures coming back to say goodbye to a place of so many memories.

Article from the limerick post ... when it closed initially

And after that there was an attempt to reopen it, I spend a memorable new year day in 2012 there, with the barman pouring Jaggermaster at midnight on the customer... on a personal point of view... that night in the wicked chicken, certainly kickstarted the journey i am now embarked upon till this day.


It is all gone in a blur...

And so now number 14 on the 99 reasons to visit Limerick is gone ( http://flipittv.tumblr.com/post/22412708706/99-reasons-to-visit-limerick ).
Anyway thanks for the memories to all the DJ, the barmen, the barmaid, the owner, and all the people who made that place what it was.

The flame is not dead, other venues in Limerick have been taking over, go checkout Bourkes, The Blind Pig, Dr John ... and make your own music memories.

An old roll

Today I collected a the photographs developed of a very old roll - based on some of the pictures I am guessing it was 2006 or 2007.
It was a very good surprise to discover the pictures,

First rediscovering myself from 5 or 6 years ago.

me

   I still remember that road, I took several picture of it with different cameras at the time, i think it was up in the Connemara, not very far from Achill Island.

Follow the road

 Off course there was pictures of the sea....

Or wast it a lake lost in the fog ?

And of sheeps...

Sheeeepppp

    And of me fighting the elements...

Survivor mode

The pictures were all taken by one of these wonderful camera, in that case an Action Sampler.

German Architecture

Another weekend walking in the streets of Düsseldorf.

First I headed in direction the Reinturm... this very high tower (240.5 meters) dominating the landscape of the city:

Reinturm

It is a telecommunication tower, but there is an observatory deck and a restaurant at the top.

To my surprise i discovered just beside it, some very interesting buildings, in the mediaharbor

Neuer Zollhof

Designed by American architect Frank O. Gehry, build between 1996 and 1999.

Neuer Zollhof

Neuer Zollhof C and B

Neuer Zollhof B

Neuer Zollhof B

On the opposite side, a building seemed to be under invasion:

Building invasion

Climbing all over the place

Climbing invaders.

And there is also the Colorium:

MediaHarbor

Colorium

Tetris anyone ??

Maybe not

aA

Fog over the tower

The old crane of the harbour

Neuer Zollhof C

The End

Additional infos:

• More information on Neuer Zollhof. 
• Structurae.

First steps in Düsseldorf...

So here it is, I am in Germany since a week, and I made my first steps into the old Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

Tram... decent public transport....

Beer anyone ?

Cycling lane ... where to go ?

Useful bike

statue ??

I think I need a drink

Pierre Boulle

what ?

dusse

place

Symmetry

Speeding on the Rhine

x

Rhine

Rhine

Statue

Playing petanque ... maybe 

Mario the plumber meddling with chinese dragons ?

So what are my first impressions:

• A great sense of order and organisation, seriously, I walked in a market and even the potatoes were neatly stacked, and organised by size.
• The all city is full of bike, you can't walk 5 meters without seeing a bike parked in the street, or having one passing you. Great to see so many people using bike. Bike theft does not seem to be a big concern since most bike get attached with very simple locks, and seems to stay here for weeks.
• The city is very pedestrian and cycle friendly, it's really a great feel and great to see,
• There is very efficient public transport system, mainly tram bus also buses.
• Even when walking in the medieval part, the city looks new and neat, but this might be due to the fact that they had to rebuild almost everything after the bombing.
• Traffic lights, are pedestrian friendly, as compared to their Irish counterpart, which does leave you barely the time to cross the street before giving way to car ( I sometimes wonder how slower, older people have time to cross). As a result there is no jaywalking, people are very obedient - it seems crossing at a red light is frown upon as it shows a bad example to kids.