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Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
While staying at Lindau, we went to see the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen. The industrial town is situated on the german shore of Lake Constance and west of Lindau. We saw a zepplin on the first day we arrived in Lindau. The museum presents on 4000 m2 of exhibition space its world’s largest collection on…
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DRIVE, Volkswagon Group Forum, Berlin
After the UEFA Champions League Final game on a Saturday in June (click here to see the post), we stayed an extra day in Berlin. As expected on a Sunday, most of the shops were closed. So we were pleased to discover Volkswagon Group’s “flagship” store, not far from Checkpoint Charlie on Friedrichstrasse 84/Unter den Linden.…
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Farewell – Bon Voyage and Solari Boards
This post is dedicated to a friend, JL who departed recently. A while back, we did a post on Louis Vuitton and the use of Solari di Udine board to sell luggage in its NY flagship store. We mused then: I bet these boards must have appeared in dozens of movies to help depict the…
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LHC @ CERN
We went to visit CERN (Organisation européenne pour la Recherche nucléaire), the European Organization for Nuclear Research, at Meyrin, just outside Geneva. It is about 40 minutes drive from us. Our visit was unplanned and the limited daily guided tour was fully booked weeks in advance. So we just saw two exhibitions, one in…
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La Chasseral – Swisscom tower
Continuing from the last post about La Chasseral, Jura Mountains … At the top of La Chasseral is a directional radio tower owned by Swisscom. In fact, one can see this Star Wars-like installation from miles away. There is a path that leads to the base which offers a panoramic view of Swiss Alps, Northern…