Tag: germany
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Our trips 2014 – part 1
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! This is our first post of 2015. It is time to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. Some of you who knew me from New York probably think, judging from the posts here, that since we left for Switzerland, we travel a…
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My third pair of ic! berlin – Harmonic Oscillator
My (Chris’s) eyesight is not getting better and as a result, I have to change the prescription on my lens – it is getting thicker but not quite coke-bottle thick. I changed my glasses about six months ago. I wrote about my loyalty to the ic! berlin brand of eyeglass here – click to see the other…
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Bückermarkt, Köln
I enjoy visiting bookstores. Several posts here are dedicated to the bookstores I have visited in other cities. For example, MIT Press bookstore in Boston and Livraria Cultura in Iguatemi, Saõ Paulo. This is my second post on a bookstore in Köln. The first one on Siebter Himmel is here. Warning: there are only photos of books…
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Siebter Himmel, Köln
I visited two very different bookstores in Cologne. Located in the Belgian Quarter (Belgisches Viertel), see our earlier post about the area here. Siebter Himmel means Seventh Heaven. It was quite a surprising discovery since I had no idea of what it was supposed to be when I first walked in. Is it a bookstore,…
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Waschsalon / Cleanicum, Köln
Continuing with my exploration of the Belgian quarter of Cologne (see earlier post here), I came across this unusual combination of enterprises on Brüsseler Strasse 74-76. The shop floor is divided into two halves, the front is a laundromat while the back is a retail store. The two businesses share the same entrance. So one…
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The Belgian Quarter, Cologne
I (Chris) wanted to visit Köln because it is another big city in Germany (No.4 by population). I liked Berlin (No. 1) and Munich (No. 3) and wanted to see more urban life in Germany. You will see it in the next few posts. Köln is a very compact cityas far as tourists are concerned, because…