…sed mutato nomine te fabula narratur…

Christchurch, as it turns out, is a very nice city, with a nice, small city center and enough to do to keep anyone occupied for at least a couple of days. Thus, I had originally planned on writing a sort of comprehensive travel guide for the entire city, but while writing my review of the Canterbury Museum, I got a bit carried away – so instead of getting my take on the town, here is a review of JUST the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, because I felt like writing one… apparently. There’s a bit on the Antarctic Centre at the end though, so feel free to skip most of this article  if you were planning on going there and skipping the museum!
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In November and December 2009, I went to Vienna (for a Hludowicus Project Meeting), and to Frankfurt (for a T&I project meeting). In between those two, I spent some time working in the ever-inspiring OEAW, where the coffee and company is good and plentiful, and strolled around beautiful Vienna in what turned out to be the last few nice days of the year (weather-wise, that is). Went to the Leopold Museum to see Munch and the Uncanny, went to the Albertina to compensate for this expressionist onslaught with some nice Impressionists impressions, went to the Wien Museum to experience the excitement of Vienna in the 20s and 30s (all great exhibitions by the way!), got lost in the labyrinth that is the Wiener Altstadt, got some trinkets at the Christkindlmarkt, went to the Kunsthistorisches Museum to gawk at Old Dutch Masters, Egyptian stuff and Charles the Bold, and felt revived by all this high art and culture.

Also, I drank quite a few beers, gluhweins, Rieslinge, and other beverages there, saw Modern Earl perform in some basement with some of my new-found friends, and had an overall good time! So thanks to everyone involved for making that happen!! (and an extra-special thank-you to Gerda for letting me stay at her apartment! You rock!)

Seeing as it has already been some time since all this went down (holidays, you know), I figured I’d just let the few pictures I took do the talking. Just a few, I’m afraid, as I actually had to work as well, but still, they seem kinda nice… Read the rest of this entry »

From 13 October 2008, here’s a report on my adventures in Stockholm!

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