Category: Europe
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038 | Words :: London, UK, 2014
It has been a long day and I’m in the mood for reading words rather than writing them. So for today’s entry I will present you with this: Hope you feel the same 🙂
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037 | Words :: Istanbul, Turkey, 2013
In Islamic culture, the pictorial depiction of creatures with souls has been historically discouraged, which includes God, humans, and sometimes animals. The adoption of aniconism originated as a measure against idolatry per Quran’s instructions, although different schools of thoughts have various interpretations as to the extent of enforcement. As a result, Muslim artists turned their…
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036 | Words :: Hallstatt, Austria, 2016
I found this wonderful staircase in Hallstatt, Austria with the words “time travel” in many languages. The Chinese translation a bit off. It actually says “time remembrance” instead. I thought it was a fitting photo for this project, as I dig up all these little gems from my memory. Speaking of time travel, I watched…
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032 | Music, Prague, Czech Republic, 2016
This is the Rudolfinum, home to the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Galerie Rudolfinum, a contemporary art gallery. It sits on one side of the famous Chain Bridge, and with its stern facade looks rather like a municipal administrative building. In fact it had been repurposed as such after World War I, when the newly creative Czechoslovakia used it…
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027 | Music :: Lisbon, Portugal, 2013
During my first trip to Europe, my travel companion booked a flamingo performance in Madrid, and I was not too impressed. We sat at tiny tables in a dark lit room, and watched the same three dancers tap their feet to shriling music for theee hours. Perhaps I was too young, and could not appreciate…
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022 | Events :: London, Great Britain, 2014
I ended up in London for four days most because it was cheaper to fly to Iceland from there than the US. This was before the whole Iceland travel boom happened, and no one was advertising $199 tickets from NYC to Reykjavik yet. I arrived on a Friday night and was supposed to fly out…
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015 | Flora :: Santorini, Greece, 2013
We went to Santorini to see the postcard sunrise of Oia, but it was not meant to be. Zeus, who controls the clouds among other things, was not in the best mood that weekend. The next morning I headed down to the shore to catch a day tour to a nearby island. It was an…
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014 | Flora :: St. Petersburg, Russia, 2013
One of my favorite animated feature is Anastasia, the story of the lost Russian princess who finds her way back to family, her lost memory recovered with the help of a music box. In love with the movie, I went on a research rampage into the lives of the last Romanov family and the conspiracy…
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011 | Night :: Barcelona, Spain, 2010
What’s not to love about Barcelona? If you like art there’s the Picasso Museum, if you like architecture you can spend all day chasing after Gaudi,if you like sports then you wouldn’t want to miss a chance to visit Camp Nou, and if you want the touristy experience Las Ramblas is the where you should…
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A Tale of Two Cities: Buda + Pest
I woke up just in time to see us flying over the river. The clouds were clearing up, and the sun added just the right vibrance to the colorful roofs lining up both sides. On the left side sits Buda, with its sprawling castle and palace that takes up most of the hill. The other…