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Arles France is a coastal city in southern France. It was initially settled in 800 BC and became an important trading post. The Romans captured it in 123 BC and grew it into one of the empire’s largest and most important colonies. By 395 AD it had a population of over 75,000 and became the […]
Every few years, we take a trip to Florida, more specifically, Miami Florida. Not surprisingly, we usually time our visits during San Francisco’s colder and rainy months. After all, what is wrong with some sun and warmth? Sometimes we go down for Art Basil. Other times we go…just because. We usually stay in South Beach […]
Our brief, three-day LA visit ended with a visit to the rapidly reinvigorated downtown LA. Although we planned to visit the increasingly hip Koreatown section, these plans were scotched when we discovered that “Here’s Looking and You”, the hot, new restaurant that we planned to visit, was closed the one evening that we were able […]
Chippendale The Chippendale in Sydney was a treat for which we were totally unprepared. The multifaceted neighborhood which encompasses the campus of UTS (University of Technology Sydney), provides some of everything. The two most immediately striking features of the neighborhood are the innovative design and large scale of four current ultra-modern buildings and the scale […]
Foundation Louis Vuitton commissioned Frank Gehry to create a dramatic space to house commissioned contemporary art, host temporary exhibitions, and stage small events. The building, located in the midst of the lovely Bois de Boulogne Park (see our Paris neighborhood post), is classic Frank Gehry. It is a huge, aluminum-clad dome covered with glass wings, […]
From San Sebastian, Spain we took a bus to Bilbao. This is an industrial and port town that, although it does have a small, historic, medieval Old Town, has never really made it into many tourist itineraries until it retained architect Frank Gehry to design a new branch of the Guggenheim museum. We visited the […]