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  • Radisson blu @ Luzern (Lucerne)

    Just a few pictures of my hotel in Luzern. I came here for a 2-day conference. See earlier post about the town, Luzern (Lucerne). Interiors with cheerful colors without looking like a Disney theme park hotel. This is the first time I stayed at this chain of business hotels. Luxurious it is not, but its

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  • Classic Electronics: Oxygène IV – Jean-Michel Jarre (1977)

                             Click on the cover to start listening to Oxygène IV. Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre is one of my all-time favorite album.  I heard Part IV first on the British singles chart in 1977, and made me a fan of electronic instrumental music.  The album has 6 tracks, named by numbers sequentially, and can be

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  • Classic Electronics: Memories of green – Vangelis (1982)

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg0cmhjdiLs&w=510&h=412] This music is part of the Blade Runner soundtrack. It matched the mood of the movie perfectly. The treated piano sounding a little bit cold and off tone is layered on top of a warm melody, which together suggests the sadness of the human clone and its slight imperfection.  The blips and woosh give

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  • L’espai Dalí·Joies – objet d’art

    In addition to the wearable jewelry (covered in the last post), Dali also made many pieces of jeweled objet d’art, which are also on display at the L’espai Dalí·Joies, e.g., this flower with petals shaped like grasping hands.  I do not know if it has any function (I somehow doubt it) but it is exquisite

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Jungfrau, a must-see in Switzerland

Art and Architecture on Naoshima 直島, Japan

Morocco Adventure: Sand, Sea and Souks

Venice, its canals and carriers

Notable Bookstores of the World – Series 1

Familiar food we (as travelers) ate while in Tokyo

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