I love big cities. I'd much rather ride a subway than sit on a beach. I love museums and cultural events, great restaurants and urban activity. New York is one of my favorites. If I had to live outside the US, I'd probably settle in London. I've been lucky enough to see Cairo, Jerusalem, Rome, Paris, Chicago, Istanbul and much of the rest of the world. Great cities are complicated, charming, messy,...
Continue from: ShenZhen09 Day 4 Dinner: 正一味 @ Coco Park Dong Men 东门 is a fashion hub. There are rows of shops selling fashionable and stylish clothes, apparels, shoes; huge department stores and a wholesale market. In the wholesale market, you can find stuff with the price ranging from very very cheap, very cheap, cheap, moderately cheap, reasonable, slightly expensive…...
Customer : I'd like a footlong meatball sub on wheat. Manager : What would you like on your balls, sir? --Subway Restaurant Overheard by: Mondoman Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2009-11-20
Graziano Freschi, experienced travel writer and connoisseur writes.... It is hard to imagine, when you visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both pleasant, prosperous and laid back cities, that nearly 65 years ago they were the target of the Atomic Bomb and its horrific aftermath. Hiroshima today is a mid-size city cris-crossed by rivers and waterways. It dispalys the usual prosperity of Japanese cities, with...
A group of investors headed by The Carlyle Group and the parent company of Subway restaurants will give rest stops in Connecticut a multimillion-dollar facelift and create hundreds of jobs in the process.
Since around March this year, a sad-looking panda has been spotted roaming the streets of New York City — on the subway, in Times Square, at various parks and around Wall Street's bull statue. Over the next few months, the Sad Panda has intrigued and fascinated New Yorkers — his short disappearance on Wall Street led a few concerned individuals to put up a missing notice , and his great...
I've got about 40 minutes to write and post this entry before it's no longer November 18th. I don't want to give my wishes out a day after so I better get writing quick (I know what you're thinking- 40 minutes to write a post'? believe me I'm easily distracted and find myself often... SQUIRREL! ). Doing my last year of University on-line and overseas meant that I'm not technically in the same class...
After spending a few years in Philly while studying at Temple University, I've come up with my own random list of Best Ofs for Philadelphia in the form of 'Top 3's". Most likely, your favorite one that I missed was number 4. Sorry in advance. Concert Venues 1. Trocadero - Awesome architecture. In China Town. Egg drop soup after! 2. TLA (Theatre of Living Arts) - Right on South Street. Feels small,...
Warning: Get ready for a really loooooong post. I went crazy! I was really inspired! Standing in front of Daikanyama on Changkat Bukit Bintang, one could have mistaken it for a regular Japanese restaurant serving regular Japanese food. The only thing that could have hinted the kind of food they served in here was the building's design with its clever play on angles and the use of raw materials like...
Graziano Freschi, experienced traveller and connoisseur writes.... One does not come to Tokyo to admire antiquities, or to muse on the long shadow of history: aside from the fact that the city has been Japan`s capital only since 1868, the terrible earthquake of 1923 and the utter destruction of World War 2 have left very little of historical value: if that`s what you are after, Rome, Damascus or Istanbul...
Graziano Freschi, experienced traveller and connoisseur writes.... Whereas Tokyo is the epicentre of Japan`s political power and economy, and its gateway to the world, Kyoto is the country`s prime historical, cultural, culinary and religious centre. In fact, until Tokyo took over in 1868, Kyoto had acted as the nation`s capital for almost 1,100 years (taking the mantle from nearby Nara in 790 AD)....
What happens to record stores in the great hereafter? They become Subway Restaurants, of course. (Unless they become discount Nordstroms, or whatever the former 4th Street Tower Records is...
FIDI— In one of the weirder Subway stories in recent memory, the sandwich chain is going to be attached to a crane currently building the Freedom Tower downtown, so construction workers won't have to descend the tower or bring their...
Is this more Toronto Star doom'n'gloom , this time about the Danforth Avenue that's the axis of Toronto east of the Don River and here written by Robyn Doolittle, I wonder, or is it actually accurate? A trip to the Danforth for many means niche boutique shopping in Greektown, a wine list at lunch and a Starbucks for the ride home. Three subway stops east, at Coxwell, the streetscape has changed. Trendy...
The New Yorker's annual food issue hits shelves today (we'll feel lucky if we get ours in the mail before Thursday). Articles include Calvin Trillin on Candians' beloved poutine , a peek inside flavor labs, Adam Gopnik on cookbooks , and John Colapinto’s " exclusive" look at the rating process of the New York Michelin guide . Apparently this is "the first time in its history"...
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