Category: big cities
Epic Night Views from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building – Part 1
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (東京都庁, TOCHO) is the seat of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government that governs the 23 wards of the Tokyo metropolis with 14 million residents in 2023. The 243 meter tall building located in Shinjuku 新宿 has two towers, and each houses an observatory at a height of 202 meters. It had been the…
A Brief History of L’Hôtel de Sully, Paris
During our time in Paris, we stumbled upon another hidden gem for book lovers in Le Marais—L’Hôtel de Sully, which we featured in the previous post. Let’s take a look at the historic building. The main entrance of Hôtel de Sully opens onto the bustling rue de Rivoli. There is a back entrance which connects…
Browsing in Librairie de L’Hôtel de Sully, Paris
During our stay in Paris, we stumbled upon another hidden gem for book lovers in Le Marais—an excellent complement to the Bibliothèque Forney, which we featured in a previous post [here]. Enjoy this while browsing… Nestled within the historic Hôtel de Sully, this discovery is not a public library but rather a one-of-a-kind bookstore in…
Roaming around The Broad, Los Angeles – Part 2
Continuing with our tour of The Broad… the 120,000-square-foot building features two floors of gallery space and is the headquarters of The Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library, which has been loaning collection works to museums around the world since 1984. The Broad welcomes more than 900,000 visitors from around the world per year. In…
Roaming around The Broad, Los Angeles – Part 1
During one of our trips to Los Angeles, we decided to stay in Hollywood rather than our usual spot in Orange County near family. This gave us the chance to try something new—using LA’s metro system. We took the Red Line to the Civic Center/Grand Park station and walked from there to The Broad, passing…
Museum of Broken Relationships (Muzej prekinutih veza), Zagreb
On our journey to Venice, we made a stop in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Though the Museum of Broken Relationships (Muzej prekinutih veza) came up in nearly every guidebook, it hadn’t been included on our itinerary. As it happened, we stumbled upon it while exploring the Upper Town—just after riding the funicular up the…