Latin American beaches

‘Why do we love the sea?

It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.’

~ Robert Henri

 

Not sure whether beaches qualify as urban sketching subjects - strictly speaking.

I'll post only one here, but more can be found at www.visualflaneur.com.

 

Oliver, your visual flaneur

 

 

where they love...for a living

She is on the phone and does her nails as we sit down next to them. We are waiting for a bus to leave San Jose airport. She and the other girl next to her are also waiting for something. They look bored and hardly talk. They are friendly to each other, but aren't friends. After a while, two middle aged men approach from the airport terminal. One in shorts and a polo shirt, the other in slacks wearing a baseball cap -  'Betty Ford clinic' .  The men grin and excitement is apparent in their eyes as they approach. The girls put on a professional smile as they welcome their foreign visitors. 'Let's go and get a car.' 

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Oliver, your visual flaneur

 

be(er)culiarities

'You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline.

[...] at the very least you need beer.'

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
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~ Frank Zappa

 

Drawings and notes from a recent trip to Costa Rica and  Nicaragua.

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 Tona, Imperial, Victoria - I'll have any of them happily. One peculiarity is that bottles are often served with a tissue wrapped around the bottle neck. In a more upscale bar, sometimes a second tissue is wrapped around the center of the bottle. You may think this dress up is to absorb condensing water drops, but no, apparently it is for - not further defined - 'hygienic reasons' . I have yet to figure out how to use them to protect my health. Maybe its just me. 

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Oliver, your visual flaneur