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Last weekend I was lucky enough to visit Stockholm, one of the Scandinavian cities that was on my "I definitively want to go there list". The week before I asked F. a Swedish college of mine what would he recommend to visit and the first thing he told me about was the Vasa Museum, a Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628 that sank on her first trip very close to the Stockholm harbor ... that would an interesting story, but the amazing second part more than 300 years after is that they were able to recover the ship that was kept in a very decent condition because of the composition of the water around that area. So you get this incredible of experience to visit this gigantic ship almost as it was in the 17th century. I would recommend the visit to Stockholm just to see it. In this picture you can see the ship on the background with a small Sailor doll in the exhibition (using the wonders of perspective it looks like real one!).

A couple of years ago I visited Portugal and I had a great time on that country, visiting Porto, Lisbon, Sintra and Cabo da Roca, the most western spot of Portugal and also the most western part of the European Continent. I think this fact is really cool because you can not go any further :). I would to came back to the country: Beautiful landscapes, great weather, nice people and amazing food!.

In september 2010 we have the chance to visit Porto flying directly from Dublin. This was the first we visited Portugal and thanks to a Portuguese friend of mine we tasted the famous "Bacallau" in a restaurant close to the city center that was absolutely delicious. We also had the opportunity to visit one of the bodegas and we tasted the famous porto. Finally we didn't only have very good food and wine, but we were welcomed by a gorgeous old city center. Highly recommended.

One of my first images of Europe was the majestic old walled city of Carcassonne. An Scotish friend invited me to visit this place with a friend of her who was visiting her and I was so happy that I was able to go. I loved the city!. I was able to come back some years later when I did train trip from Girona to Carcassonne and during the night I was able to capture this shot.

O'Connell Street is probably the busiest street in Dublin at any given time with buses coming and going to every corner of the city, pedestrians crossing and meeting at the spire and taxis waiting for passengers. It is almost a privilege to see it completely deserted as you can observe in this picture. Some years ago while I was living in Ireland I had to go one time to a public office in the city center and I tried to arrive as soon as they were opening. The sun was just coming up and the street looked so empty that I decided to take this shot. It was not intended, but I got the James Larking statue on the spotlight. He was a trade union leader and socialist activist and there is a picture honoring him in the middle of this famous street.

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