Category: events
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Our trips 2016, part 1
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! This is our first post of 2017. It is almost a tradition of this blog – the first two posts take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. Click on links, where provided to read more about the places of interest. There are usually…
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Alps en fête, Verbier
We spent a weekend in Verbier towards the end of July this year. Kind of a last minute thing. Verbier is about a little more than an hour’s drive away. Verbier is a primarily a ski resort but during the summer, it actively promotes itself as a haven for outdoor sports. Not just hiking and…
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Objection! Protest by Design at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
IT and I visited the Vitra Design Museum at Weil am Rhein in April 2016. It is a beautiful, well-designed (duh), starchitect-built campus – more about this place in future posts. From 26.02 – 29.05.2016, in a free-standing gallery next to the museum, the exhibition titled “Objection! Protest by Design” was held. The exhibition presented a…
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Moscow Metro (Московско метро): Subterranean monument
The Shchusev State Museum of Architecture is presenting an exhibition of the original plans and photos of the Moscow Metro (Метро, March 17, 2016 – August 14, 2016). It will close in less than a month’s time. So go see it or click here to visit the museum’s web site. The Shchusev Architecture Museum is celebrating…
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Rebel Heart tour, Madonna in Tokyo
Part of the reason we went to Japan in February is this woman. She is not getting younger and we reckoned if we do not grab a chance to see her perform live on stage soon, she might retire. Hope she will be around longer than David and Prince. We are not die-hard fans but enjoyed…
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Sunday Anti-War Protests in Harajuku 原宿, Tokyo
On Valentine’s day February 14, Sunday, we encountered a protest in Tokyo. Harajuku is the geographic area spreading from Harajuku JR Station south along Omotesando down to Meiji-dori. It is better known internationlly as a center of youth fashion – especially Takeshita dori (竹下通り). After we crossed Meiji-dori, Sue and IT stopped at a vintage clothes…