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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Go The Extra Mile
The Extra Mile is a brilliant start-up charitable organization with a very straightforward mission: they collect frequent flyer miles from all those folks who never use them and then provide access to the miles to people who need to travel … Continue reading
Every Book Is A Surprise
The Monkey’s Paw is Toronto’s self-described “most idiosyncratic secondhand bookshop”. So it’s not surprising that owner Stephen Fowler commissioned the creation of the Biblio-mat random book dispenser. The automat for books arbitrarily metes out improbably diverse titles that would normally … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Canada, Tech
Tagged Monkey's Paw, Toronto, Used book
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No Trees, No Fjords
This summer, Irish painter Conor Harrington visited the doleful Norwegian port town of Vardø on the chilly Barents Sea and created some marvelous murals around the desolate town for the Komafest street art festival. Lucky for us, filmmaker Andrew Telling … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Film, Tourism
Tagged Conor Harrington, Komafest, Street Art, Vardø
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Serendipity Now
Launched last month, Wanderous is a diverting free travel navigation app that creates serendipitous urban routes that are optimized for adventurous journeys. Users just enter a destination into Wanderous and it will offer a convoluted route suggesting local sites, landmarks, … Continue reading
Asterisms
While checking out the Kandinsky 1911-1913 show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, I ran across a new exhibition by NYC-based Mexican artist Gabriel Orozoco titled “Asterisms”. The binary show features thousands of diverse objects Orozoco collected from the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Museums, USA
Tagged Asterism, Guggenheim Museum, New York City, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Book This Hotel
Open for just over six months, the very cool B2 Boutique Hotel in Zurich, Switzerland is rapidly becoming an aspirational lodging destination for traveling bibliophiles. Situated in the former 19th century Hürlimann Brewery, this “Hotel with a bookmark” has managed … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Hotels, Tourism
Tagged Hürlimann Brewery, Switzerland, Zurich
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Venice Underwater
This week, extensive areas of Venice have been underwater (even more than usual). Severe weather and unusually high tides submerged three quarters of La Serenissima under an extra meter of lagoon water. Here’s what Europe’s most romantic tourist destination has … Continue reading
Caught Mapping
In this era of Google Maps, Street View, GPS and satnav systems, most of us take the humble road map for granted. We don’t appreciate the complex and tedious work that was involved in the production of accurate road maps … Continue reading
Pity the Holiday Travelers
In less than two weeks the United States will be celebrating our annual Thanksgiving holiday. With more than 42.5 million Americans hitting the road, Thanksgiving week is one of the busiest travel periods in the U.S. each year. This revealing … Continue reading
Helvetia’s Traum
Back before the astronomical value of the Swiss franc made long visits to Switzerland cost prohibitive, I was lucky enough to spend some quality time in glorious Helvetia. So, it will come as no surprise that I’m smitten by this … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Film, Photography, Tourism
Tagged Alessandro Della Bella, Helvetia, Switzerland, Time-lapse photography, Zurich
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