Category: food & drinks

  • Arts & Foods, Milano – part 1

    Arts & Foods, Milano – part 1

    Before we go any further into Venice and the Biennale, let’s come back to Milan for a bit of applied arts. Arts & Foods. Rituals since 1851 is an exhibition curated by Germano Celant, held at the Palazzo di Triennale in Milan from April 9 to November 1, 2015. It was a World Expo “pavilion”

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  • Ending up at Bácaro Jazz in Venice

    Ending up at Bácaro Jazz in Venice

    This was our first day in Venice. Sis had a business trip in Europe so Sue and I(Chris) thought it would be great if we spend a few days in Venice together, taking in a bit of art at the Biennale.  The plan was to meet at the Milano Centrale train station and take the Frecciabianca express

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  • Carlsberg beer museum, Copenhagen – part 2

    Well, the arrival of 2016 interrupted the 2-part posts on the Carlsberg beer museum. This story took 2 years to complete ! Part 1 is here.  Continuing with the tour of the Carlsberg beer museum … The brand name Carlsberg combines the founder – J.C. Jacobsen’s son’s name – Carl with a variant of the Danish

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  • Carlsberg beer museum, Copenhagen – part 1

    We have written up quite a few museums on this blog, for example, big glass boxes like the Der Moderne in Munich, the Islamic Art Museum in Kuala Lumpur, the Mushroom museum in Saumur inside a cave, or the rather odd Schaulager in Basel. There are all kinds of museums around the world, for example, the unexpected Museum of Broken Relations in Berlin which we

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