Category: shopping
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Siebter Himmel, Köln
I visited two very different bookstores in Cologne. Located in the Belgian Quarter (Belgisches Viertel), see our earlier post about the area here. Siebter Himmel means Seventh Heaven. It was quite a surprising discovery since I had no idea of what it was supposed to be when I first walked in. Is it a bookstore,…
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Waschsalon / Cleanicum, Köln
Continuing with my exploration of the Belgian quarter of Cologne (see earlier post here), I came across this unusual combination of enterprises on Brüsseler Strasse 74-76. The shop floor is divided into two halves, the front is a laundromat while the back is a retail store. The two businesses share the same entrance. So one…
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The Belgian Quarter, Cologne
I (Chris) wanted to visit Köln because it is another big city in Germany (No.4 by population). I liked Berlin (No. 1) and Munich (No. 3) and wanted to see more urban life in Germany. You will see it in the next few posts. Köln is a very compact cityas far as tourists are concerned, because…