So I was finally able to upload some flicks from my Puerto Rican trip. The bottom line is that PR has amazing friendly people and a beautiful rain forrest. Old San Juan is really pretty and definitely shows some amazing spanish colonial buildings. The beaches are nice and the seafood is great. The downside?, The second wave of colonialism by the USA. Way too many big ass cars, way too many fast food, malls and overweight red neck midwesterns that look like obese lobsters about to blow out. I often felt like I was in another US state more than in a spanish Island…
The Rain forrest was just beautiful. 15 minute from the highway and you are in the garden of Eden. I felt like one of the dude from the TV show “Lost”. Too bad that so many American tourists felt the need to drive oversize polluting Jeeps and Hummers to discover a dying wonder.
In Old San Juan we went to the El Morro. It’s the oldest Spanish fort built overseas. It started in 1540 and was done in 1589. Just super impressive and beautiful. Rising 140 feet above the sea, its 18-foot-thick wall proved a formidable defense. It fell only once, in 1598, to a land assault by the Earl of Cumberland’s forces. The fort is a maze of tunnels, dungeons, barracks, outposts and ramps.
We also ate the national dish: Mofongo. It’s a popular Afro-Boricua dish, made from fried green plantains seasoned with garlic, olive oil and pork cracklings, then mashed. We got that with Lobster and shrimp… Banging!
I also spot some old dope signs like that Pizzi sign that reminded me some Espo work, those 3 great characters having a party on that blue wall and those dying tiles on a store front in Old San Juan.
Unfortunately american generic signs took over most of the local art.
Posted on April 01, 2008 at 03:23 PM | Comment (0 comments)
