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BAR

Saturday, 2nd July 2005 by James

Randomly written on the side of a hill in spain is the word “BAR“. Perhaps there’s a good pub there? Maybe someone called “Bar” flies a gyrocopter around there (like a spanish Dave)? Who knows!

Bar

20 Responses to 'BAR'

  1. 1. Teknorat says:

    Nice! Maybe initials?

  2. 2. nandhp says:

    If you look to the northwest (and anywhere on the other side of the highway), there are a lot of fields with large black dots in them. Any ideas what those are?

  3. 3. noknok says:

    I would guess the black dotted fields are olive tree orchards. The wide spacing allows for machine harvesting.

    Similar orchards in Italy:

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  4. 4. Dave Lartigue says:

    I found a bunch of mountainside graffiti in Peru:
    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    (Follow the mountainside to the west to see the heart and the shovel.)

  5. 5. David says:

    Maybe the ‘Foo’ got washed away.

  6. 6. chris says:

    in google earth you can see that just above the shovel dave lartigue mentioned there’s a light pentogram.

  7. 7. Juan García says:

    The highway is A-4 (Carretera de Andalucía). I’m from Madrid but I rarely have driven that way. I’ll try to take a look the next time I drive back to Madrid from somewhere in Andalucía. I added a mark in the GPS so I don’t forget ;-)

  8. 8. AnotherChanceToSee says:

    Maybe he’s a Formula One fan?

  9. 9. español says:

    VIVA ESPAÑA

  10. 10. wako says:

    I’m from madrid too, that’s just a sign of a near Bar (spanish translation for pub).

  11. 11. rice says:

    VIVA CATALUNYA !!!!!

  12. 12. Jason Marble says:

    I lived in Salamanca, just south of Madrid, for a while and I remember going to this bitchin bar a bit of a ways outside of Salamanca. But this bar wasn’t any regular bar. It was out in the middle of these ranches or farms, but the cool thing is it was underground. You just walk through this little shack kinda and down these long stairs into this cave. We drank tons of sangria and had an awsome authentic dinner with our entire class. So, this could be signaling to some underground bars; I’m not too sure.

  13. 13. Extrañao says:

    Bueno, pues si hay tanto español, por que c…ño no hablamos en español?

    =)

  14. 14. j0sE says:

    jajaja es verdá aki con el ingles garrulo..!! Pues teneis idea que coño es eso?

  15. 15. Iceman says:

    Viva Cataluña? Si acaso Visca Catalunya xDDDDDDDDDDDD En fin… yo tb soy de España, de barna :)

    Vaya peazo paranoia esta web… ¿No? xDD Lo del bar…. españa tenía q ser XDDDDDDDDDDDD

  16. 16. joshiko says:

    concretamente donde se encuentra la palabra bar??? hay algun bar alli?

  17. 17. Anthony says:

    it maybe graffiti…like instead of useing paint or ink he used the hill side………graffiti artists are out for fame…..whats better than a huge name on the side of a hill

  18. 18. JJ says:

    Greetings from Spain. On our way North from Andalucía, we came up with the famous ‘bar’ grafitti on the right side of the A-4 freeway. It’s purpose is simply to be seen from the road, no grafitti contest, no hidden initials. It’s just a damn roadside bar. Here is what can be seen from the freeway.

  19. 19. JJ says:

    Esos no españoles dando pistas sobre donde tomarse unas copas, juas, juas, juas…

    No se dan cuenta que lo de la sangria es un truco para sangrar a los guiris?

  20. 20. En fin... says:

    “I lived in Salamanca, just south of Madrid, for a while and I remember going to this bitchin bar a bit of a ways outside of Salamanca”

    Salamanca al sur de Madrid?? …

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