{"id":2784,"date":"2010-11-14T20:38:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T12:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2010-11-14T20:38:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T12:38:15","slug":"minifigs-had-a-grand-time-in-spain-and-france-not-sure-about-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/minifigs-had-a-grand-time-in-spain-and-france-not-sure-about-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Minifigs had a grand time in Spain and France. Not sure about Singapore."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m back from Spain, France and Singapore with a bump… ready to get into marking student assignments solidly for two weeks. I had a wonderful time – learning, eating, talking, laughing, visiting, cycling, flying, shopping and generally saying “oh wow!”. Many, many thanks to the Spanish Ministry of Culture <\/a>for inviting me and to all the wonderfully clever, interesting and accommodating folk that I met on the way.<\/p>\n

I hope to provide more reflection on the conference and some of the places I visited, but it will need to wait.<\/p>\n

The minifigs enjoyed themselves too. Each time I travel, my sons give me a couple of Lego minifigs<\/a> to photograph in interesting places. You can see their previous travels around Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the Netherlands and in London here in this Flickr set, \u00a0Minifigs go travelling<\/a> . They are not the only minifig world travellers – Jo-Jo and Frikke from Denmark<\/a> also saw the world – on their own<\/a>….<\/p>\n

The chef inspected croissants at Charles De Gaulle airport as we passed through Paris, so that by the time we reached Gijon in Northern Spain he had them almost perfected:<\/p>\n

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The minifigs came with us on our “Gaudi<\/a> Day” in Barcelona, as we explored the architect’s apartment block, La Pedrera<\/a> and what is now a public park, Parc Guell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The minfigs visited the Louvre in Paris:<\/p>\n

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They had great fun in the retrospective of video games over the last 30 years, Museogames<\/a>, held at the Musee des arts et metiers<\/a> in Paris:<\/p>\n

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I am not sure that they enjoyed almost being eaten in Singapore on the way home, but they should be used to it because it also happened two years before.<\/p>\n

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