Category: shopping
Monday night market at SS2, Petaling Jaya – part 1
The next few posts are dedicated to the very lively, popular, and wonderfully diverse night market (Pasar Malam) at SS2, Petaling Jaya – one of the largest in the area. The market sells various types of goods (clothes, toys, electronics, etc.) but the main reason to come is the street food. Monday night is market night…
Petronas Towers & Suria KLCC, Kuala Lumpur
Some of you who knew me from New York probably think, judging from the posts here, that since we left for Switzerland, we travel a lot and do not spent much time on work. While it is true that I (Chris) get more vacation days per year now, workload is certainly heavier than before. So…
Alexandra Bookstore, Budapest
Back in fall 2014, we spent a long weekend in Budapest, Hungary. We have a couple more posts on this city before we put up photos from our Malaysian trip. While strolling along Andrássy út (Budapest’s Fifth Avenue), we came across this building with a rather impressive facade. The combination of art nouveau motifs and…
il Bacio di Stile, Budapest
After my (Chris) business meetings, we stayed behind and spent a weekend in Budapest. We were strolling through downtown Budapest on Halloween Friday night and came across this high-end fashion department store – il Bacio di Stile. The store was throwing a Halloween party – Spooky Friday – and would open till 10pm. Not a word of…
Waterstones Piccadilly, London
While I (Chris) was visiting JL in London, I wandered into Waterstone on Piccadilly. As some of you might have noticed on this blog, I like visiting bookstores and have been photographing them. If you want to see the other bookstores, just click on the tag bookstore on your left. Some of the information I have included…
Bückermarkt, Köln
I enjoy visiting bookstores. Several posts here are dedicated to the bookstores I have visited in other cities. For example, MIT Press bookstore in Boston and Livraria Cultura in Iguatemi, Saõ Paulo. This is my second post on a bookstore in Köln. The first one on Siebter Himmel is here. Warning: there are only photos of books…