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Entries Tagged as 'TRAVEL'

The Coffee Bean Really is Everywhere

May 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The Dad is being my eyes in Asia. Here, check The Coffee Bean in the Singapore airport.

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Tags: TRAVEL · DRINK · EAT

First Time in Memphis…

May 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Beale Street, Memphis

Lots of big-ass beer

Our gain…

Accessorized horse

Lots of doggies along for the ride

Anticipating the pork

And there it is…

Beale Street could come up with something better than this, no?

The husband, like this pic

Sweet shirt alert! We’ve seen a number of printed shirts with similar awesomeness.

Dictionary time. We’ll let “rite” slide, but here’s hoping this is […]

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Tags: TRAVEL

Parking For Those With Back Pain and Canes in Sao Paulo

January 24th, 2008 · No Comments

This sign in front of a bank in Sao Paulo cracked me up. It’s so much more expressive than the usual marked disabled parking spots - you can almost feel the ache in the back.

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Tags: TRAVEL · CULTURE

Another Room With A View

January 15th, 2008 · No Comments

This time with a view of Sao Paulo. It’s pretty f*cking astounding - 29 million people over 6,332 square miles. You can’t see the end of it. By the way, it looks blue and clear, but about 10 minutes prior I was completely soaked through in torrential rain.

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Houston Airport Stuff, On the Way to Sao Paulo

January 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Just a couple things about the Houston Airport, which I had never been to before. First, there’s the high-end kiosk with iPods, noise-canceling headphones, etc. Then there’s the airport employees on Segways (shown below, the dark image). All very on the up-and-up, but then virtually all of the magazine selection was a week or a […]

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B+S in London: Photos Day 6 + 7, Heading Home

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments

OK, this is it people, you’re probably sick of London photos, but I figure you can always skip them if you’re done. These are two bathroom extremes: on the left, the ‘XLERATOR’ which sounds like you’re on a landing strip but really does the job, leaving hands dry and warm in lightning speed; on the […]

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B+S in London: Photos Day 5

December 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Liked this local pub, The Victoria, not far from work

The Victoria

Office holiday party at The Big Chill

Lots of dressing up in fairy wings, sombreros, mustaches, etc. Who knew? It was like holiday inspired Halloween

The Cuban Brothers entertained

Party at Rough Trade - booze and karaoke, you can imagine the rest

Rough Trade

Rough Trade

Blue Lust bar in the […]

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B+S in London: Photos Day 4

December 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Made a mad run to Oxford Circus to Topshop

Liberty of London, wish I had more time for all the department store shopping here

I have to say, everything does seem so civilized; Liberty window, Regent Street Soho

Liberty window

Windows at COS, H&M’s new, higher end, more mature chain of stores, Regent Street, Soho

More Liberty, etc.

Carnaby Street

Nice, tasty, […]

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B+S in London: Photos Day 3

December 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Notting Hill

Lonsdale pub, Notting Hill

Lonsdale

Lonsdale

Notting Hill

Office wallpaper

Covent Garden

Covent Garden

Covent Garden; Apple Market, Covent Garden

Apple Market, Covent Garden

Just had to take a picture of Navajo Joe Restaurant; went to the Hawley Arms in Camden, Amy Winehouse’s watering hole.

Hawley Arms

Inside Market, a fantastic restaurant

Britpop pub, The Good Mixer in Camden

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B+S in London: Photos Day 2

December 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment

A room with a view, or rather, the view from my room

The tube; really nice handcrafted leather at this shop in Camden Town

Camden Market, saw a dress there with the same fabric as a dress at Target on La Brea

Definitely a gothic vibe along Camden Hight Street, very youthful, something like Melrose east of […]

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B+S in London: Photos Day 1

December 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Look how tiny this coke is on British Airways, a little less American fatness; way more food on international coach flights

Watched the Darjeeling Limited… and Sliding Doors until I fell asleep, pretty lame that movie; the logo for some media company - not called dog farting, or canine fartsville, but can’t remember the name

Pure California […]

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B+S in NYC, Part II: Royalton Hotel in Midtown, BarBossa in Nolita

November 4th, 2007 · No Comments

So, I didn’t actually stay at the Royalton Hotel while I was in NYC, but I spent some time there - one night wandering in there for a drink with my cohorts, having had a delicious dinner across the street at French-American DB Bistro Moderne (there were lots of French people, which seemed like a […]

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Tags: TRAVEL · DESIGN · DRINK · EAT