Archive for January, 2009
Colors…
January 25, 2009Ebisu Beer
January 22, 2009Fonfone
January 16, 2009It was bound to happen. What was once a dark and cavernous heavy-metal bar located on a trashy street just behind the Plaça Reial, has now joined the ranks of the city’s trendy clubs. Sleek, geometric forms of colourful, translucent plastic shine a light of pleasing artificiality on the pretty young things that lounge around [...]
N A G A B A B A. Allahabad
January 14, 2009Frozen Yoghurt in Santo Spirito
January 11, 2009Delicious Italian gelato is all very well, but it makes you fat. A healthy and yummy alternative is frozen yoghurt, and a new yogurteria with the toe-curling name of Baby Yogurt has just opened in Piazza Santo Spirito. Their tubs of plain frozen yog. can be topped with a refreshing selection of fresh fruit – [...]
Junkichi Mukai and Japanese Houses
January 10, 2009Junkichi Mukai was a landscape artist who paid particular attention to architectural features in his work. What makes this exhibition so fascinating – and so poignant – is not so much the undoubted high quality of the work itself but the fact that so much of what is depicted has now vanished without trace. The [...]
Bow Lake
January 9, 2009Prague – Closed for renovations
January 6, 2009In 1995 and again in 1998, we found the Tyn Church closed for repairs. Talking to workers on the exterior they said they had no idea when it would be opened. We took the splendid 30 minute walk from the No 8 tram line up to the Star Summer Palace in May 1998 and found [...]
