Month: March 2013
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Annecy restaurants
Annecy is a touristy town in the Haute-Savoie region of France, so there are restaurants and cafes everywhere you turn, especially in the old town area (see earlier post). The local specialties – Savoyard dishes – typically served on black slate, feature cheeses and cured meats (which we had plenty in Switzerland). So we feasted on…
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Annecy, France
Annecy is located about 100 minutes drive from where we live. We knew about the town and had wanted to visit it for the last 2 years. But it was only until June last year when we spent a weekend there. Yeah, this post has been in the draft folder for months. Annecy is the…
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“Good Thinking” by Denise D. Cummins
I(Chris) have not read a non-fiction cover to cover for a long time (in fact, I can’t remember the last one). Recently, while I was in Boston, I toured the bookstores of MIT and Harvard (see earlier posts here and here). This book “Good Thinking” was displayed on the “staff’s pick” table in the MIT…
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Snapshots from Thailand (paired): Part 2
Before we finish our run of photos of Thailand, here is another set of paired snapshots from Thailand. The idea is that the paired snapshots, while taken at different occasions, share a common theme. Part 1 is here. Recap: two weeks in Thailand at the end of 2012, from Chiang Mai to Bangkok and then…
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Wat Pho, Bangkok
Wat Pho is a temple located adjacent to the Grand Palace in Bangkok, and is very popular with tourists. See our earlier post about the Grand Palace complex here. We visited the temple after our tour of the Grand Palace. It is famous for its gigantic reclining gold buddha. The temple, being a historic place…