• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

belgianwaffle

  • Home
  • About
  • Archives

In fairness to taxi drivers

26 November, 2008
Posted in: Dublin

I got a taxi to the airport this morning.  The taxi driver was particularly interested in art nouveau and art deco.  He has been all over the world with his wife photographing things (Napier is too far though).  He told me that after the foundation of the Irish State, the Office of Public Works got a group of young architects together and told them to hop off to Europe and get some ideas.  He says that there is an art deco block of flats on Townsend street that is nicked from a model he saw in a book of Dutch art deco drawings.  He was absolutely fascinating and extremely knowledgeable.  I am feeling a warm glow towards taxi drivers and that’s not something that happens very often.

 

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. CAD says

    27 November, 2008 at 22:39

    You should get your star taxi driver to take you up the Howth Road and start him off on the row of Bauhaus(es? – not sure of the plural!) there. Or the German Houses as they are known locally. Or you could just visit some ex-Brussels friends looking forward to seeing you again who live around the corner (and not alas in one of said German Houses – the property bubble hasn’t quite burst hard enough for that).

  2. Mickle in NZ says

    28 November, 2008 at 10:05

    Confession – I live in New Zealand, am 43 and have only been to Napier once – on a school music trip when I was 16. I remember the fun, but not much about Napier.

Primary Sidebar

Flickr Photos

More Photos
November 2008
M T W T F S S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
« Oct   Dec »
Tweets by Belgianwaffle

Categories

  • Belgium (144)
  • Boys (858)
  • Cork (205)
  • Daniel (603)
  • Dublin (450)
  • Family (588)
  • Hodge (46)
  • Ireland (836)
  • Liffey Journal (7)
  • Michael (588)
  • Miscellaneous (71)
  • Mr. Waffle (540)
  • Princess (1,049)
  • Reading etc. (555)
  • Siblings (203)
  • The tale of Lazy Jack Silver (18)
  • Travel (159)
  • Work (191)

Subscribe via Email

Subscribe Share
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy

© 2003–2022 belgianwaffle · Privacy Policy · Write