Opera arias in the Place des Vosges
On my last evening in Paris in June 2006 I was walking to the Opéra Bastille, feeling somewhat sorry for myself because I had already turned in my bicycle to Read More …
Tag: VirtualTourist
Fire in rue de la Trémoille
In 2006 there were several news reports of bad fires in Paris. As I wrote that year on the now-defunct website VirtualTourist: “I don’t know if there are really more Read More …
:D in Scheinfeld
Scheinfeld is a happy town in the Steiger Forest in Franconia, northern Bavaria. You can tell it’s a happy town because some internet-savvy person has written “:D” with a felt-tipped Read More …
Since when is Frankfurt in Bavaria?
In the database of the now-defunct website VirtualTourist (VT) there were four places in Germany called Frankfurt. One was a large city in Land Hessen called Frankfurt am Main, which Read More …
Market Market Pocket-Village
All you loyal readers of my Markt Bibart post (thanks again to both of you) will no doubt recall that there are 386 towns in Bavaria which bear the official Read More …
Vélib’ 2011
When I finally returned to Paris in February 2011, I was pleased to find that the Vélib’ bicycle transit system was in good shape and still going strong after three-and-a-half Read More …
Vélib’ 2015
On a Sunday morning in June 2015 I rode over to the Avenue des Champs-Elysées to have a look at an event called Les 24h de Vélib’ = The 24 hours Read More …
Stuttgart Central Station (Hauptbahnhof)
In 2004 I posted a ‘tip’ on the now-defunct website VirtualTourist about the central railroad station in Stuttgart. Little did I know, at the time, that the fate of this Read More …
MAS = Museum aan de Stroom
This ‘Museum on the River’ in Antwerp was opened in 2010 after fifteen years of preparation and construction. I don’t know how much it cost or how controversial it was Read More …
Look ma, no electrons!
We 21st century folks are so accustomed to doing everything electronically that we tend to forget about (or not even know about) the amazing mechanical devices our grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents Read More …