Month: March 2012
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Suburban mall hopping, part 2
Paris Baguette, Los Cerritos mall You can tell by the name, Paris Baguette, that this cafe is not run by a French company. It is a franchise run by a rather successful Korean chaebol (SPC group) that has landed in the US a few years ago. There was one in Fort Lee, NJ near us…
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Suburban mall hopping, part 1
Last month, we visited Los Angeles and spent a long weekend in Las Vegas meeting friends who came down from the Bay area. Rather than sightseeing (most sights in LA had been seen already), we were just chilling in the suburb. Unlike NYC, LA is not known to be welcoming for pedestrians. So, it was…
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Geneva’s 80th International Motor Show
This post is about something we did two years ago. So before all the new cars on show become old news … We went to see the annual 80th International Motor Show (80e Salon International de l’Auto) at Geneva’s Palexpo on the second but last day in March 2010. We were stuck in traffic outside Geneva…