Botanical Garden and Opera

Leave it to British aIrways to provide a most British experience. From “a very good evening to you ladies and gentlemen…” to the newest safety video “May One Haveth one’s Attention”. On the flight from London to Paris: “Sir would you like a scone? A fruit scone or a plain scone? What kind of scone…

Bucharest’s massive parliament was originally designed to bring a very large, centralized communist government together under one roof. It was another five years after the revolution before it was completed and used to support the emerging democracy. With 1100 rooms it is the second largest building in the world and the heaviest building in the…

Catching up on my blogging. In my last few days in Sofia I had the chance to continue to explore the city but also to see some of the new buildings appearing in the area. This building caused me to do a double take. The next time you call for customer support you may be…

A former railway, turned into park, two and a half stories above ground. Just across the river near the Gare D’Austrelitz is this interesting building. Though the clouds were rolling in, there was still some time in the afternoon to get a few external shots of the Louvre and the Tuileries Gardens.

While Lille isn’t the biggest of cities, it sits within the larger European Metropolis of Lille with a regional population between 1.5-2 million. While I explored most of the historical centre there is lots more to come back one day and explore across the region. And the usual steep and traditional winding French staircase to…

Opened in 1837 with some 12,00 graves, the First Cemetery of Athens is a peaceful spot in the middle of Athens not far from the ancient Agora. It is seems to contain one of the biggest collections of marble in the city. The graves are certainly large and elaborate. Not far away is the Panathenaic…