A Spider from Across the Sea

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6K9NTSqFUfIJJA0xaSUakj77qL5VD5clifomw2P-DYmhkiIBOsJ_NTMa356orEoZl5z-vX3Y8U_7T9wHKJQ3C-jQGvbC6ON2jgEp_rqzQajoz9tUHD0GKisBTxqDcdlSFAEzFcieJwT4o/s1600-h/PICT0660.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246186586671392930" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6K9NTSqFUfIJJA0xaSUakj77qL5VD5clifomw2P-DYmhkiIBOsJ_NTMa356orEoZl5z-vX3Y8U_7T9wHKJQ3C-jQGvbC6ON2jgEp_rqzQajoz9tUHD0GKisBTxqDcdlSFAEzFcieJwT4o/s400/PICT0660.JPG" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><br /><br />Last week outside of Penn Station, I spotted this not-so-itsy-bitsy spider crawling across the left side of Alexandra's back.<br /><br />Turns out the spider, along with Alexandra, were visiting New York from Switzerland. Alexandra had limited English, but did impart to me that she "had always wanted something like that" as a tattoo, and that she doesn't regret it one bit.<br /><br />The tattoo artist was named Stephan, who worked in a shop whose name she can't recall in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuch%C3%A2tel">Neuchâtel</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland">Switzerland</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Alexandra for sharing her spidery tattoo with us here and giving us our first Swiss-inked contribution to Tattoosday!

A Spider from Across the Sea

Last week outside of Penn Station, I spotted this not-so-itsy-bitsy spider crawling across the left side of Alexandra's back. Turns out ...

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