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Category Archives: Europe
City of Light
Paris is often referred to as la ville lumière or the city of light. Paris-based freelance designer and photographer Clémentine Tantet decided to take that notion about the luminous city a step further and represent the Paris Metro map in … Continue reading
High Art
Travelers flying on Virgin Atlantic between New York and London this month are being treated to the world’s first transatlantic, commercial art gallery. The “Gallery in the Air” is operating from February 1 through the 28th and is exclusively showing … Continue reading
Under the Acropolis
The Monastiraki neighborhood located in the heart of Athens beneath the Acropolis has been hard hit by the Greek economic crisis. But the art and design group beforelight has collaborated with local residents and businesses to transform the dark and … Continue reading
Sleeping Around
These days, we see all kinds of pop-ups appearing in cities and towns around the world. There have been pop-up restaurants, bars, stores, museums and kiosks. But Antwerp, Belgium‘s Sleeping Around may be the first moveable, pop-up hotel. Using six recycled, … Continue reading
Man Ray Keeps London Going
Earlier this month we marked the 150th anniversary of London’s iconic Underground network. As we noted, the London Transport Museum will be hosting a show highlighting the rich visual language of Tube related poster art. Featuring an amazing group selected … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Museums, Tourism
Tagged London, London Transport Museum, London Underground
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Journey Through the Seasons
Norwegian NRK broadcaster and filmmaker Eirik Solheim created a series of entrancing videos based on trips on Norway’s Nordlandsbanen, the nation’s northernmost railway. This 800km-long railway, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, links the fabulous city of Trondheim … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Film, Tourism, Uncategorized
Tagged Bodø, Eirik Solheim, Nordlandsbanen, Norway, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Trondheim
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Free Schwabylon ?
From the outside, we tend to view the Germans as a monolithic culture, but stories like this one demonstrate how wrong that viewpoint can be. There is an internecine war brewing in Berlin’s trendy Prenzlauer Berg District between native Berliners … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Tourism
Tagged Berlin, Käthe Kollwitz, Prenzlauer Berg, Spätzle, Swabia
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The Clocks Were Striking Thirteen
Penguin UK has decided to mark the sixty-third anniversary of George Orwell‘s death by launching “George Orwell Day” and by issuing a series of new paperback editions of his most beloved books. The series has all original covers designed by … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Freedom of Speech, History, Writing
Tagged Animal Farm, George Orwell, George Orwell Day, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Penguin Group
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A Room With a View
Faktum Hotels is not your ordinary hotel brand. In fact, it doesn’t actually rent hotel rooms at all. Instead, Faktum Hotels is a clever media campaign to bring attention to the plight of homeless people in Gothenburg, Sweden. Website visitors … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Hotels, Tourism
Tagged faktum hotel, Gothenburg, Skansen Lion, Sweden
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Everyone Wants to Drive the Train
Yesterday, a Swedish train cleaner succumbed to that universal urge to be a train engineer and went for a three minute joyride with a suburban Stockholm commuter train. Unfortunately, she lacked the skills to keep the Saltsjobannen train on the … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 