Month: October 2012
Swanage via the Purbeck Breezer
Before going to London for the Olympic Games, we stopped by Bournemoth in the south of England to visit V. The Purbeck Breezer is a bus service that runs from Bournemouth to Swanage, a seaside town on the southern coast. The Breezer is operated with a fleet of double decker buses some of which have…
Boston academic bookstore tour: Harvard
As I was saying in the previous post on visiting the MIT Press bookstore, we really crave visiting English language bookstores while living in continental Europe. This is the American Book Center we visited in Amsterdam. So, back to when I was in Boston, the other academic bookstore I visited was the Harvard Coop in Harvard…
Boston academic bookstore tour: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Earlier this month, I (Chris) went on a business trip to Boston and had a half-day which was free of meetings. Having been to Boston many times before and I probably saw most of the major sights. What should I do with that free time in this city? Living in Lausanne, we are a bit…
BMW Museum, Munich
The BMW Musuem is located across the street from and connected via a footbridge to BMW World. Go to our earlier post to see a bird’s eye view of the whole complex which includes the main manufacturing plant behind the HQ. The silver bowl-shaped building was built in 1973 by the architect who built the tall…