Archive for December, 2008
Go fly a kite
December 31, 2008Patrizia
December 30, 2008A radical new Italian design firm, Patrizia, moves into downtown Budapest. Patrizia Pepe, a design team from Florence, offers high-tech clothes and fabrics, from feminine elegance to the cutting edge, out of a modest store in a quaint Budapest backstreet. Adventurous chic.
Walking the Spanish Pyrenees
December 29, 2008There is a lot of work underway to improve the walking trails on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees. The work was most apparent at stage 13: Viados to Bielsa via Pardinas. From Bielsa the trail is well marked and quite wide, but the deeper you go into the forest up the Barranco de Montillo [...]
Le Cinéma en Plein Air
December 25, 2008La Villette’s annual outdoor film festival is a summer fave, with movies projected on to a huge inflatable screen. This year’s theme – ‘Les Grands Espaces’ (the great outdoors) – includes films by Kurosawa, David Lean, Chaplin, Agnès Varda and John Huston. Acoustics are some way short of multiplex standard and movies have been known [...]
Fête de l’Assomption
December 24, 2008On Assumption Day, Notre Dame becomes once again a place of religious rather than touristic pilgrimage. In the morning, a procession parades around the Ile de la Cité behind a statue of the Virgin.
Mojo
December 21, 2008Situated in the new and ultra hip W hotel in West LA, the customers at Mojo are as much an attraction as the food. Music blares as patrons in designer clothes wait patiently behind velvet ropes outside and then sit provocatively in the bar flooded with red light or in the sea bar bathed in [...]
Meisterhaus
December 20, 2008Nonsolovino
December 18, 2008Marina di Pietrasanta is one of the most pleasant resorts on the Versilia coastline, and after a day on the beach, the little town of Pietrasanta is a great place to haunt. Nonsolovino is one of many good restaurants, but offers particularly good value for money in a contemporary setting. The four-course menu is fixed [...]
Alexandria
December 17, 2008Alexandria once boasted two of seven of the Wonders of the World, the great library and the lighthouse, but both have been destroyed. The stone from the lighthouse was used to build Fort Qaitbay overlooking the harbor. The fort provides a excellent view out to sea and back towards the city. Inside is a collection [...]
My time Window shopping in Amsterdam
December 15, 2008If you’re interested in having sex with a window prostitute, go up to the door and wait for the girl inside to open it. You can do pretty much anything you want as long as you clearly negotiate it beforehand, though the standard is the informatively but inelegantly named “suck and fuck,” which starts at [...]
