Nov
14
November 14, 2007 – 4:51 pm
Springwise has found an interesting concept, Pay-as-you-wish restaurants. They mention a restaurant in Vienna and writes this:
Prices for drinks are fixed, but customers decide how much they’d like to pay for the food. Most pony up a fair price, and the restaurant doesn’t seem to suffer from its unusual pricing plan.
An interesting concept, it is [...]
Nov
5
November 5, 2007 – 4:41 pm
A friend of mine has seen the movie Earth and strongly recommend it. There is a website at love earth that has information about the movie but also fantastic photos. The earth is beautiful. There is also a blog.
Oct
26
October 26, 2007 – 9:39 pm
Albert Einstein once went to school in Aarau in Switzerland. Nowadays there is a restaurant named EINSTEIN. It is a really nice place with café, bar and restaurant.
There was a big plastic statue of Albert E outside, probably only temporary.
Compare the size with the house behind the statue, his head is at the second floor.
Oct
26
October 26, 2007 – 9:35 pm
When I was in Switzerland we went to Asian Place in Zurich. It happened to be during their Asian Food & Culture Festival 2007 which meant
Kulinarische Highlights und kulturelle Besonderheiten aus China, Japan, Thailand, Indien und unserem Gastland, den Philippinen.
In English that is food and culture from China, Japan, Thailand, India and the Phillipines. The [...]
Jul
8
The voting for THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD is closed and the result has been announced. The winners are:
Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Christ Redeemer, Brazil
The Great Wall, China
Machu Picchu, Peru
Petra, Jordan
The Roman Colloseum, Italy
The Taj Mahal, India
An impressive list created after millions of people voted.
A site with a related topic is the UNESCO’s World Heritage [...]
Mar
31
Google Maps is an interesting and useful site. One can enter two places and get directions. Or simply have fun and skip around on the maps.
Mar
9
When in Amsterdam we went to the Van Gogh Museum. This museum has the world´s largest collection of Vincent van Gogh: more than 200 paintings, 500 drawings and 700 letters as well as van Gogh´s own collection of Japanese prints.
We went there on a Friday, the museum is open longer (until ten) and there is [...]
Mar
8
I have been in Amsterdam and while there we went to Rijksmuseum - National Museum of Art and History. While the restoration of the main building is underway, the Rijksmuseum displays the crème de la crème of its permanent collection in the Philips Wing. The exhibition is titled “The Masterpieces” and offers the unique opportunity [...]
Mar
5
Last week I was in Amsterdam for an SAP event. It was the 6th SAP International Utilities Conference 2007, around 1500 attending. The conference was Wednesday to Friday at the RAI Exhibition and Congress Center.
Thursday it was Celebration Night at a place called The Factory. We saw a performance by Blue Man Group (NL), I [...]
Feb
19
February 19, 2007 – 8:27 am
Balboa Park was mentioned in a discussion at Yahoo! Groups. On their website it says:
Balboa Park - the nation’s largest urban cultural park. Home to 15 major museums, renowned performing arts venues, beautiful gardens and the San Diego Zoo, the Park has an ever-changing calendar of museum exhibitions, plays, musicals, concerts, and classes—all in the [...]
