January 2011

Aha! Blogging Makes Me Tech-Savvy

January 30, 2011 9 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or join me on Facebook to be regularly updated. Thanks for visiting! I’m a technological disaster. Sadly, the only things I know about are Microsoft Office and Photoshop (for Windows that is, not for Mac – uhm, and I have a Mac…). But when it [...]

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NY’s Misunderstood Financial District

January 28, 2011 6 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or join me on Facebook to be regularly updated. Thanks for visiting! The View from the Outside (Staten Island ferry) I’m currently reading a book called Liar’s Poker, from Michael Lewis, in which the author describes, from an insider view, the disastrous fall of Salomon [...]

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Falling Night from the Empire State

January 27, 2011 20 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or join me on Facebook to be regularly updated. Thanks for visiting! Friday. After making our way through far too many shops, searching for additional winter clothing to survive NY’s upcoming big freeze (and still not succeeding on finding a extreme-weather-conditions scarf), we decided to head [...]

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East Village – My first Airbnb Experience

January 26, 2011 8 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or join me on Facebook to be regularly updated. Thanks for visiting! An Ideal Apartment in Upper West Side, Manhattan  Source Back in December, I was concerned about the accommodation alternatives available in Manhattan. Although our budget constraint is higher than when we [...]

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Start Spreading the News…I’m Leaving Today!

January 19, 2011 11 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Times Square, NYC …Remember the day I won two flights in my company’s New Year’s party?  Well, I’m finally making use of my gift and we’re flying to New York for 5 days! This might not seem a big deal for [...]

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Paris Photo Essay (by a Frustrated Architect)

January 18, 2011 12 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Did I ever tell you that, when I was a kind, I wanted to be an architect? This career fixation started at the earliest of my memories and lasted until I turned 20. Yes, 20. I studied to become [...]

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I Eat Paris.

January 17, 2011 16 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! It was saturday morning and I had made my way to the one place that had never dissapointed me in this city – Marais. I remembered it colorful and full of life. I got out of the cab at Rue [...]

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The Day I Planned the Unplanned.

January 14, 2011 8 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Source Last night we arrived in Paris. Paris and me, we have this kind of love-hate relationship. I’ve had great times with my friends, spending the nights in a spanish bar in Marais (which we later on discovered turned [...]

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Friday’s Five – #4 Edition

January 14, 2011 0 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Top 5 tips for visiting New York City (from a Manhattan tour guide), Downtown Traveler. Remember the tickets I won on last year’s company party? Well, time has finally come and now it’s only 6 days to go, and [...]

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Can Traveling for Work be actually considered.. well, you know, Traveling?

January 12, 2011 7 comments

Hello! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I’m back in London. But this time it’s for work, so don’t expect fancy dress parties or chocolate festivals, but rather, well, maybe a picture or two from the Lloyds Building in London City and one of Champs-Élysées from the Cab [...]

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