Tag: germany

  • Lindau food diary:  Eil.Gut.Halle

    Lindau food diary: Eil.Gut.Halle

    While on Lindau, we went to Eli.Gut.Halle for dinner. It is located close to the lighthouse at the end of the promenade. Offering outdoor and indoor seating, it has both a view of the harbor and the lake. Here is a view of the harbor of Lindau – the lighthouse, the lion and the tower

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  • Lindau, Germany

    Lindau, Germany

    In May, we went to Lindau with IT. Lindau is a small island in Lake Constance (Bodensee), located near the meeting point of the Austrian, German and Swiss borders and is nestled on the lake in front of Austria’s Pfänder mountain (see later post).  We took this aerial photo when flying from Zurich to Kiev after our visit

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  • Zaha Hadid’s Fire Station on the Vitra Campus

    Zaha Hadid’s Fire Station on the Vitra Campus

    Last year, IT and I went to visit the Vitra Campus – located just across the Swiss-German border in Weil am Rhein. See our earlier posts about the Campus and the company’s showrooms. We joined a walking tour of the private areas of the Campus – the factories, the warehouse and the fire station. Zaha

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  • Alexander Girard at Vitra Design Museum

    Alexander Girard at Vitra Design Museum

    This is the third post on what we saw at the Vitra Campus. The Vitra Design Museum is one of the publicly accessible building on the Campus. A major retrospective – “Alexander Girard – A Designer’s Universe” was installed when we visited. Much of what is written below came from their web site which is

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