Adorned in red velvet and gilded in golden paint, Geneva‘s Victoria Hall is one of the most opulent venues for music in Switzerland. I went during the Geneva Music Festival when all its events were free of charge. Though no costs were levied onto its audience, the performance was not Read more…
In the wee hours of the morning, worshippers, and visitors alike form a long line outside the Schlosskirche in the town of Wittenberg in Germany on a quiet Sunday morning. The occasion? The reopening of the church where Martin Luther posted his ’95 Thesis’ on after its renovation. Among those Read more…
If you’re heading East towards Yellowstone National Park on the scenic and tricky US-14, then you have to take the time to stop by and touch real dinosaur tracks. Discovered only near the turn of the 21st century, the dinosaur tracks are very well preserved in what used to be Read more…
The first thing I want to bring to light is the widespread misuse of the world ‘holocaust’, it should only be used to refer to one particular incident, which is the systematic massacre of Jews, Romas, Sintis, the disabled, the dumb, and others considered ‘undesirable’ by the national socialist regime. Read more…
You know that really famous picture of a little stone arch bridge on a middle of nowhere cliff called the Bastei bridge? Yep, that’s Saxon Switzerland that looks like its straight from an Avatar movie. Although it has Switzerland in its name the entirety of the national park lies in Read more…
Constructed in the mid-1980’s to a then-popular sci-fi high-tech style by Norman Foster, it is one of the centrepieces of Hong Kong’s stunning skyline. Along with the Bank of China Building, Cheung Kong Centre, and IFC 2, it is one of the most iconic buildings in the world. By day Read more…
Before WWII, the Justizpalast in Nürnberg was used as a state-level court. After the war, it was the only courthouse in Germany that was still standing and large enough to accommodate the trials of war criminals. For years after the war, Axis war criminals were tried, imprisoned, and hung from Read more…
Easily reachable by S-Bahn and tram, the Reichsparteitagsgelände in Nürnberg consists of several monolithic structures over a large land area. The most famous of those buildings is the Zeppelinfeld where a Cathedral of Lights was set up during Nazi Party rallies to create a sense of religious fervour. Tens of Read more…
Asia’s last remaining greyhound racing track closed in June of 2018, so I decided to pay it a visit just before it closed. Greyhound racing has a significantly lower profit than horse racing, a brief glance at the information board reveals that each race has less than $10 000 in Read more…
This iconic attraction in Paris is a real cash cow for the French tourism industry. It has been the subject of many controversies, scientific experiments, and postcards. Constructed for the 1898 World’s Fair it was supposed to be taken down like all the other exhibits, but it was maintained as Read more…