Disney’s dip into river cruising expands
May 15, 2015
It must feel like going back to the roots for the Disney organization, since Mickey Mouse’s first starring role was as Steamboat Willie, a riverboat
It must feel like going back to the roots for the Disney organization, since Mickey Mouse’s first starring role was as Steamboat Willie, a riverboat
Beautiful letters and beautiful things…This is another shoebox selection, focusing on well-made signs and well-wrought details that just don’t really fit somewhere else. You know
High water levels from heavy rainfall and spring snowmelt in the Alps has caused delays and changes in river cruises, including those on the Seine, Rhine and Danube. While serious, it’s not as bad as the spring of 2013 when many port towns were…
Think Vienna, and you usually come up with images of cafes with pastry and chocolate, of music and stately buildings…of maybe Harry Lime and The Third Man. But ugly? That’s not usually in view. But it’s there.
The pictures in this gallery are mainly architectural details—rooflines, entrances, windows—noticed in years of walking in cities and having my eye caught by a strong line, an unexpected contrast, an extended shape…I don’t even always know what catches me, and, as here, it’s often not the most significant building.
Sorry about the pun, but it appears that FlyNiki, an AirBerlin subsidiary, has cancelled plans to move part of its operation from Vienna to Bratislava and connect the two bases with an air shuttle.
Sometimes, while traveling, you walk past something; it looks interesting, but it’s not open. You poke your eyes and lens in as best you can, and grab a shot…and then, over the years following you keep coming back to the image and you know you have to return.
Vienna’s Karlskirche, arguably the city’s finest Baroque building, was built starting in 1716 under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles (Karl) VI—but it’s not actually named for him.
Air China is launching a new long-distance route from Barcelona to Beijing, with one stop in Vienna, hoping to catch the two big waves of Chinese tourists heading for Europe and Europeans visiting China.
Every place wants to be the “most important,” “most popular,” “most famous,” “most beautiful.” It can’t all be true—but there’s no doubt in my mind our visit today to the Great Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, also called the Mezquita, took us to one of the “most unusual.”
It must feel like going back to the roots for the Disney organization, since Mickey Mouse’s first starring role was
Beautiful letters and beautiful things…This is another shoebox selection, focusing on well-made signs and well-wrought details that just don’t really
High water levels from heavy rainfall and spring snowmelt in the Alps has caused delays and changes in river cruises, including those on the Seine, Rhine and Danube. While serious, it’s not as bad as the spring of 2013 when many port towns were…
Think Vienna, and you usually come up with images of cafes with pastry and chocolate, of music and stately buildings…of maybe Harry Lime and The Third Man. But ugly? That’s not usually in view. But it’s there.
The pictures in this gallery are mainly architectural details—rooflines, entrances, windows—noticed in years of walking in cities and having my eye caught by a strong line, an unexpected contrast, an extended shape…I don’t even always know what catches me, and, as here, it’s often not the most significant building.
Sorry about the pun, but it appears that FlyNiki, an AirBerlin subsidiary, has cancelled plans to move part of its operation from Vienna to Bratislava and connect the two bases with an air shuttle.
Sometimes, while traveling, you walk past something; it looks interesting, but it’s not open. You poke your eyes and lens in as best you can, and grab a shot…and then, over the years following you keep coming back to the image and you know you have to return.
Vienna’s Karlskirche, arguably the city’s finest Baroque building, was built starting in 1716 under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles (Karl) VI—but it’s not actually named for him.
Air China is launching a new long-distance route from Barcelona to Beijing, with one stop in Vienna, hoping to catch the two big waves of Chinese tourists heading for Europe and Europeans visiting China.
Every place wants to be the “most important,” “most popular,” “most famous,” “most beautiful.” It can’t all be true—but there’s no doubt in my mind our visit today to the Great Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, also called the Mezquita, took us to one of the “most unusual.”