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Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Furtwangen – part 1
During Easter, we drove up to the Black Forest area of Germany. We visited the German Clock Museum (Deutsches Uhrenmuseum) on our way back from Baden-Baden. The museum is in Furtwangen, a small town just off the Black Forest high road (Schwarzwaldhochstraße, see our post here). The museum is housed in a very humble-looking modern building.
Les Grands Magasins, Paris
Les Grands Magasins (“the big/grand department stores”) of Paris really deserve a post. They are retailers who want to sell luxury but cannot ignore the mass-market, and they want to be chic and at the same time appeal to tourists. Two of the “grand department stores” Magasin du Printemps and Galeries Lafayette stand right next to each other
The Peristyle and the Grand Canal, Versailles
Earlier this summer, while in Paris, we spent an afternoon at Versailles. Our earlier posts on the main chateau and the Grand Trianon are here and here. There were two sights at Versailles that particularly impressed us – the peristyle at the Grand Trianon palace and the Grand Canal. A peristyle is a columned porch or
Swiss glacier lake in the summer – Lac Lioson
We went hiking with YS when she was in town in June. Lac Lioson is in the Pic Chaussy massif at 1890 m, about an hour drive from home. The glacier lake can only be reached on foot, according to our guide book, 1.5 hours from the Col des Mosses. We left the car just off Route
