Culturally otherwise

May 12, 2019 Tigerotor77WAirbus A320, Blue Fin Building, Hamilton, London, Lufthansa, The Crystal, Victoria Palace Theatre1 Comment

After having lived in the Allgäu for almost four years, one aspect of big city life I miss is access to the performing arts. I really enjoying playing trumpet for several years and there is something to be said about the emotional high of putting on a production. Even with regular trumpet practice over, I can still derive joy from a seat in an auditorium. Although there are local musical groups, witnessing the thundering ballads of Broadway is a dream in time gone by. Unless… we consider all of Europe a massive stage of its own.

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A Summer without the Alps

December 30, 2017 Tigerotor77WAir Canada Maple Leaf Lounge, Andre Fougeron, Atlantic Civilisation, Big Ben, Blavatnik Building viewing level, Bridget Riley, British Library, British Museum, Buckingham Palace, Burj el Murr, Cabinet War Rooms, Changing of the Guard, Churchill War Rooms, From Surface to Surface, Greenwich, Hampstead Heath, Heathrow Terminal 2, Joseph Bueys, K6, Lightning with Stag in its Glare, London, London cityscape, London Heathrow, London views, Lufthansa, Map room, Mark Rothko, Marwan Rechmaoui, Millennium Bridge, New London Architecture, Pinarello London, Red telephone box, Rosetta Stone, Royal Observatory, Singapore Airlines lounge, St. James' Park, St. Paul's Cathedral, Sunset, Susumu Koshimizu, Tate Modern, The Mall, The Shard, Westminster Abbey2 Comments

If a holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday in Germany, or at least in Bavaria, there is a tendency to use the day between the holiday and the previous or following weekend as a “bridge” day in order to create a four-day weekend with just one vacation day. Normally, such a weekend is spent in the Allgäu, storming summits and chasing contrails. This year seemed wetter and most weekends were busier than normal, so a good number of trips fell over those deceptively-short weekends. On one such weekend, maybe the warmest one this year, I ended up in England instead of the Allgäu.

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