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Songyan cultural and creative park 松山文創園區, Taipei
We spent a few hours before sundown in the Songyan cultural and creative park 松山文創園區 in Taipei. A and F joined us. Starting our walk from the brand new Eslite Hotel right next to the Park, there was such a contrast of the new and old. Loved the hotel lobby which is designed to resemble…
Hilarity in names #10
This is no. 10 in a series of posts that is about funny business names or signs that we captured on film. From time to time during our travels, we come across English name or signage that makes us smile. Check out Hilarity in names #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, and #9. Like Shoes in…
Hilarity in names #9
We have not posted on this theme for quite a while. Well, here is no. 9 in a series of posts that is about funny business names or signs that we saw. From time to time during our travels, we came across English names that makes us laugh. This post will focus on English language…
25 Bookstores and counting …
We love bookstores and Chris has been posting our visits on the blog. So far we have 25 bookstores from around the world from Moscow to Tokyo. Below is a sample of the posts, click on the link to see them. Moscow, House of Books Tokyo, T-site As much as Amazon is a threat especially…
Breakthrough Book Gallery 突破書廊, Hong Kong
When I(Chris) was in Hong Kong during Easter, I came across this bookstore. Breakthrough (突破) was a magazine that was published between 1973 and 1999. When I was in secondary school in Hong Kong, I was a school librarian and flipped through it. The history of the magazine, the social movement and its activities are described here.…
Eldorado Bokhandel, Oslo
Before we leave Oslo, we have an addition to our bookstore of the world series … Eldorado Bokhandel is the largest independent bookstore in Scandinavia offering 4,000 square metres of books, culture and music. It is located at Torggata 9A. The bookstore opened in 2013. The facade is fairly non-descript, narrow and does not reveal much…