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Southeast North-Rhine-Westphalia. Blog: metrovelododo.wordpress.com
Very enjoyable historical romance set around William's conquest of England. It was my daily companion for the past 6 weeks and I feel a strange hole now that I'm done with it.
Love how people back in the day were proud of the smoke spewed by their factories.
A Frankfurter dies and goes to hell. Q: What's the first question he asks Satan? A: "Can you give me a blanket?"
I enjoyed this book about loneliness, trying to find your way in life, all in the context of working for an over-the-top unreasonable, chaotic, and emotionally abusive boss. As the book itself describes: the darker version of "The Devil Wears Prada", shown on Arte or ZDFneo.
Lol, the ICE to Brussels I would have taken today stopped in Liège after 1h30 of delay on top of an already bloated schedule. Glad I didn't get into that mess.
Reading this left me dizzy by the complexity of the organised crime scene in Rio de Janeiro, and the depth of the institutional rot. Starting from this urban warlord mess, recovering some sort of monopoly on violence that's accountable to democratic civilian leadership seems almost impossible.
Currently reading this very good book on the rise of the paramilitary militias in Rio and their links to Bolsonaro. Some preliminary thoughts now.
I could give lots of good Dutch examples but I'll give a Brazilian one instead, a country that's not otherwise known for its underpasses. But I like this wide underpass under an urban highway to get to the bayside park of Aterro do Flamengo.
I didn't know it when I bought it, but Rebecca Gablé is a titan of the German historical literatture, and "Rabenthron" is her latest. It's a prequel to William of Normandy's conquest of England, in a troubled time full of Danish raids, royal 2nd marriages and wayyy too many half-brother princes.
The red line of Lisbon metro is also quite bad. Sure if I want to go downtown from the airport I first need to go in the completely wrong direction.
I find the 4 seasons of Arcimboldo surprisingly modern conceptually? Even if the detail on how each fruit/leaf/etc. is painted reflects its time period.
In the end I got it from a trusty Bulgarian merchant on BoardGameGeek rather than Amazon. It was cheaper, and also more trustworthy since he had 100% positive reviews on thousands of transactions (turns out he runs a store in Sofia).
Given the photo quality, the instructions are better described as "impressionistic". This gave me a newfound appreciation to the fact the human mind cannot comprehend 4D space, given we can barely understand how shapes rotate in 3D space.
Very proud of having assembled these little guys. 7 more to go from the box I bought at the Christmas market.
I doubt the rich people are taking the train/bus, but our blessed valley geography means the mall has convenient access to the highway too. There's pretty much a direct ramp from the highway to the mall.
Haha wait Natal has an urban rail system?? All this time visiting and I had no clue.
They never seem to complain about such drives, made "unnecessarily" longer because there's an arterial on the way, with limited crossings for orthogonal traffic.
The early industrial revolution was quite a break with the slow-economic-growth past, but it still fell short of the 2% per-capita growth per year achieved in the 20th century by countries at the tech frontier. This Austen snippet gives a clue why.
While we were admiring the view of the city, 2 toucans flew in to a tree right in front of us.