Category: events
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Wandering into The Biennale Library in Venice
This is the third post in a series on public libraries that we came across during our travels. The public libraries in the earlier posts are in Stuttgart and Melbourne. Let’s start with some music. We and IT visited Venice for the 60th Biennale Arte, which runs from April to November 2024 (since its inception…
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Our First Post After A Hiatus
Welcome ! Bienvenue ! 환영 ! 歡迎 ! If this is your first visit to this blog – Chris and Sue’s Excellent(?) Adventures: Been There … Done This, welcome! You will find here our travel stories illustrated by photographs, music and maps. Occasionally, we post lists and write-ups on the books, films, music and games…
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Our trips 2019, part 2
Dear Readers, It has been a tradition on this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. In Part 1, we posted photos of places we visited in the second half of 2019. Here are the places we visited in the first half of the year. In reverse…
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Our trips 2019, part 1
Dear Readers, Happy 2020 ! We have moved here about a decade ago, and started this blog just before our departure from New York. So this blog is 10 years old ! We took a break from updating the blog earlier this year because of other projects. But we are committed to keep this going as long…
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Our trips 2018, part 2
Dear Readers, It has been a tradition on this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. In Part 1, we posted photos of places we visited in the second half of 2018. Here are the places we visited in the first half. Click on the links, where…
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Our trips 2018, part 1
Dear Readers, Happy 2019 ! It is a tradition on this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. We traveled more in 2018 than 2017, at least in terms of distance traveled. Chris had been to Hong Kong and Tokyo twice and went to the Middle East. Click…