Category: shopping
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Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella, Florence
While exploring the area around Florence’s train station, we wandered into this shop on Via della Scala without knowing what it is initially. There was a small group of tourists milling around an entrance underneath a huge bouquet of dried flowers. Click ▶ to play The outside of the building was unremarkable but as soon…
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Bookshop at Teatro Niccolini, Florence
Continuing with our exploration of Florence… We stumbled into this small bookshop in the neighborhood of our hotel (see our earlier post) in the heart of Florence. The bookshop is a part of Teatro Niccolini which is apparently the oldest theatre in Florence. If you like to join us on this epic road trip from…
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Hilarity in names #11
This is no. 11 in a series of posts that is about funny names or clever business signs. From time to time during our travels, we come across names in the English language that makes us smile. You can find the other posts in this series by the tag “names”, see for example #1, and…
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Page One Bookstore 叶一堂, Beijing
This post is based on one of two very different bookstores in Beijing which I(Chris) visited before the pandemic. First, Page One is a bookstore chain and publisher founded in Singapore in 1983 by Mark Tan (陈家强), which has retail shops built in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand, and in China (since the…
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Wangfujing Bookstore 王府井书店, Beijing
The following two posts are about two very different bookstores in Beijing, both visited before the pandemic. The first is Wanfujing Bookstore, situated at the beginning of Wangfujing Dajie (王府井大街), in Dongcheng district 東城區 of central Beijing. I (Chris) was on a business trip and I dragged a very patient colleague along to this bookstore. …
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Mariage Frères, London
This visit to London was made in December 2018. The post has been sitting around for a while. We hope the store survives the pandemic with enough local customers while the tourists who frequent Covent Garden are gone. It was a long weekend. On our last day in London, we booked a place for brunch…