September 2009
28 posts
ONLY IN AMERICA
Don’t like the way your food is cooked?call the waiter and return it with a clelar brief on how you think it’s supposed to be. He/she will replace it with a new one gladly. That never ceased to amaze me. Only in America.
Day 1 in Palm Springs
The road trip started in Palm Springs, the gay friendly desert town of Palm Springs where the heat is part of the attraction, and slot machines keep you up at night. It’s a hard place to love
when the relaxation you’re used to is lush greeneries or white sandy beaches. The landscape here is light sand brown rocky mountains, palm trees and sights of white towering wind
farms.
Our...
“Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.”
– Author Unknown
We should meet for coffee →
Is he smiling because he’s polite or is he smiling because he likes me?
Souvenirs of Prague
There’s very little to be said about Prague that you haven’t heard before. It has become Europe’s largest tourist traps and it’s a real shame because the city is actually really beautiful.
Contrary to Germany, disabled access was poor in Prague and the cobbled stoned streets were a nightmare for Dad’s wheelchair. He had a rough time, too. Those cobbled stone streets shook his old bones and he...
SUMO
In 1999, Helmut Newton and Benedict Taschen published the largest table top photography book in the world “SUMO”. It comes with Phillipe Starck’s designed stand and at 10,000 copies, they are sought after by collectors everywhere.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of SUMO, Museum für Fotografie Berlin holds a special exhibition of Helmut Newton’s life and work. It is highly recommended for anyone...
THE QUEST FOR ASIAN FOOD
As my parents grow older, their taste buds when it comes to food slowly return to the tastes of their childhood. They prefer the familiar and reluctant to taste new things. Just like their physical state, the older a person gets the more baby-like he/she becomes.
This makes eating out whilst traveling with my parents a challenge. My dad in particular, does not feel like he has had a ‘complete’...
Hopping in Berlin
No more wheel chair!! Wohoooo! The bad foot was almost back to the normal size and although I could still only wear flip flops, walking at a slower pace was definitely a possibility.
Tegel airport had a little shower just before we arrived, and a beautiful rainbow greeted us in the midst of gloomy Sunday morning. There was a little taxi incident in which a station wagon taxi refused to take us...
What I did in Munich on a wheelchair...
Munich is a small, well-regulated German city which is very pleasant for a relaxed, hanging-out kinda break. There are plenty of bier halles to choose from, and the beer quality is world class.
The highlight of Munich for me has to be the BMW Welt and BMW Museum. One does not have to be a car fan to be able to enjoy the two. The silver tubular building stood unassumingly in the midst of Munich...
Rohlstull Adventure
Today is my first time on the wheelchair. It is good to have some form of mobility again, though limited but some things bother me:
Being pushed by my mother, who is obviously elderly and shouldn’t be doing strenuous physical activities (because she’s not used to it…) If you know my mother, you would know that she’s not the most physically fit person on earth. Our family is not sporty at...
My Left Foot
There’s something to be said about bumping into things and not doing anything about it. I bumped my left foot onto something (bumping into things is quite a habit of mine and I tend to not care when it happens) and left the uncomfortable feeling for a few days thinking that it will just go away. It usually does, except this time I got on a plane and my left foot becomes my bad left foot; it...
