Category: events
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World Expo 2015, Milano – part 1
In October, we took a tour of Milan and Venice – to see the World Expo 2015 and the 56th International Art Exhibition (La Biennale di Venezia). IT joined us for the Venetian leg of the trip. Here are pictures of the Expo 2015. The line to enter was not as bad as we thought but…
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Basel Tattoo 2015
We went up to Basel for a weekend in July to see this annual musical festival. Sue has always been interested in marching band and drum line. So this event is perfect. We found a bunch of Youtube videos of the performances uploaded by others. Some are now embedded below, don’t miss them. Music, choreography, fireworks and…
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UEFA Champions League Final 2015, Berlin
This June, we were the lucky guests of IT again for the UEFA Champions League Final 2015 which was held in Berlin, Germany. Beside Sue and IT, we were joined by MW(HK) and MI(CH). We arrived at the Olympiastadion around dusk after much traffic congestion, despite being transported in a VIP bus provided by the…
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Our 600th post !
We are caught a bit off guard when the admin page of WordPress indicated that our next post will be the six hundredth (600th) that we published. As previously said several times, we are surprised that the interest in keeping up this blog has not fizzled out over the last 5 years. True it is, that we…
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Les Automnales, Genève
After a series of posts on Malaysia, we thought it’s time to change the topic. So… back to Switzerland … One weekend last year in autumn / fall, our friend F suggested that we go to this event called Les Automnales which was held at the Palexpo – the international exhibition center next to Geneva airport.…
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Tosca @ Hungarian State Opera House
The night before we left Budapest, we saw an opera with my colleague A and her husband M at the Hungarian State Opera House (i.e., Magyar Állami Operaház). We saw Tosca despite the giant display says Cosi fan tutte. The foyer was very ornate, reminded us a little bit of Versailles (see pictures here). Months in…