Malaga murals

Seeking out magical murals with Mr.A on the sunny streets of Malaga this summer… perfect vacation treasure hunt 🙂

 

You may also like other posts about street art from:

• Street art from Melbourne
• The Icelandic capital, Reykjavik
• Zagreb, from my road-trip through Croatia two summers ago
• The East Side Gallery, some remains of the Berlin Wall
• Stockholm, a city with a strict view on graffiti
• Copenhagen’s Freetown Christiania
• Lively neighborhoods of Plaka & Monastikari in Athens
• Graffiti on the by-lanes of Barcelona

Azulejos / Blue-and-white murals

Azulejos are beautiful blue-and-white tiles adorning many a mural in Portugal. While traveling around Lisbon, Porto and Faro, we’ve come across several churches, restaurants, train stations and such, covered with gorgeous scenes in blue and white tones, each telling a different story, each unique in its details. You know how I love collecting pictures of street art over my travels. These murals were in a category of their own. I immediately fell in love with these works of art.

Have you been to Portugal? What did you think?

 

Street art from Melbourne

One cannot talk enough about Melbourne’s street art culture. It is vibrant, it is energetic and it is everywhere! Don’t be surprised if you stumble upon a gorgeous geisha staring you down, find a wall of multicolored squiggles when you turn the corner, walk alongside fantastical six-legged beasts or meet a monochrome gang of six-year-olds practicing graceful ballet moves. Although I’ve lost many photographs from my year-long stay in Melbourne, thanks to a broken hard drive 😥 I remember those long walks around town discovering a new scene almost every day and clicking away photos to my heart’s content. My favorite spots were Degraves Street & Hosier Lane in Melbourne, as well as the funky Fitzroy & Brunswick neighborhoods on the edge of town. I could spend hours looking at these beautiful expressions of art.

You may also like other posts about street art from:

• The Icelandic capital, Reykjavik
• Zagreb, from my road-trip through Croatia last summer.
• The East Side Gallery, some remains of the Berlin Wall.
• Stockholm, a city with a strict view on graffiti.
• Copenhagen’s Freetown Christiania.
• Lively neighborhoods of Plaka & Monastikari in Athens.
• Graffiti on the by-lanes of Barcelona.

Enjoy reading!

Color Story : Blue

Sky. Ocean. Teal. Berry. Sapphire. Azure. Aegean. Peacock. Cobalt. Denim. Navy… Picture each of these, and a random collection of words will quickly transform into vivid and evocative names for various shades of Blue.

Sunny, happy day. Santorini, Greece

Calcutta Trams, running since 1902. Kolkata, India.

Chunks of glacier ice floating on a lagoon. Jökulsárlón, Iceland.

Stained glass window at a church. Västerås, Sweden.

Azulejo, a mural made from tin-glazed ceramic tiles. Lisbon, Portugal.

Call for selfie onboard the Tallink ferry! Tallinn, Estonia.

More “Color Stories” at Sunny District:

• Prayer
• Yellow
• Candy

 

Color Story : Budapest in blue & gold

Evening walks along the Danube in Budapest had a luxurious feel… as the lights came on, elegant bridges & buildings began to sparkle like gold while the sky and the waters deepened to a brilliant shade of blue…

 More stories from Budapest!