Category: notable

  • Schwarzwaldhochstraße, the Black Forest High Road

    Schwarzwaldhochstraße, the Black Forest High Road

    The Black Forest  (Schwarzwald) is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. On our return trip from Baden-Baden (See earlier posts), we decided to take a scenic route, instead of the autobahn which offers fun in a different way. Running east and then south from Baden-Baden, this route is a part of the German federal highway…

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  • Plan d’Aiguille to Mer de Glace

    After a visit to the Aiguille du Midi at 3,842m (12,605 ft), we descended by cable car half way to the Plan de l’Aiguille at about 2,300m (7,600 ft) to start our hike. The destination is the Montenvers-Mer de Glace mountain train station at 1,913m (6,276 ft). According to the official guide, this nature trail…

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  • The Millennium Trilogy: a tribute and more gossips

    The Millennium Trilogy: a tribute and more gossips

    Well, I was not planning to devote another blog post to these three books but there seems to be a lot of interest in them.   This trilogy is kind of the Harry Porter for grown ups and apparently Lisbeth Salander has become a media/culture figure first in Europe and now in the US.  I…

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  • The Millennium Trilogy’s Author: Stieg Larsson

    The Millennium Trilogy’s Author: Stieg Larsson

    These are the book covers for UK’s release of the Millennium Trilogy.  The book covers in yesterday’s post are used in the US editions. I prefer the US covers. The author of the Millennium Trilogy died in 2004 several months after he submitted the trilogy to his publisher and before the first book was published.…

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  • The Millennium Trilogy

    The Millennium Trilogy

    I just finished the third book of the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson at around 2am Thursday night.  The Millennium Trilogy consist of “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo“, “The Girl Who Played With Fire“, and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest“.  The contemporary crime-thrillers originally published in Sweden in 2005-2007 were translated into…

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