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Panthéon with a Pendulum
Although with the same name, the Panthéon in Paris looks very much different from the Pantheon in Rome.However, the podium does look the same as the one in Rome with soaring Roman Corinthian columns. From what I have found out, it was actually model...
Breakfast with the Oldest Church in Paris
When I visited Paris, I put myself up at a hotel in St-Germain. This place is convenient in terms of transport and food. I had most of my breakfast meals at a place called La Croissanterie, which is also my favourite place for breakfast in Paris. By ...
Shopping in a Palace
Can you imagine a shopping centre that looks like a palace? How do you feel if you can shop like a member of a royal family in your own palace? You can find all the answers at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.The giant transparent dome is deliberately dec...
Pimped Up Centre Pompidou
Crowning Centre Pompidou as the king of pimped up buildings is probably not too exaggerating. Where on earth can you see a building with over-sized exhaust pipes? That is a resemblance of a pimped up car!All the other pipes running around the buildin...
A Sacred Heart
Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, or the Sacred Heart Basilica, was built on the summit of Butte de Montmarte. Although the foundation stone of this Romano-Byzantine Basilica was laid in 1875, it was never fully completed until 1919.Although there are steps...
From Paris with Louvre
Musée du Louvre was originally built as the vast Palais du Louvre which was used as a fortress by Philippe-Auguste in the early 13th century. It kept on expanding in size since then, with the Louvre we see today being the work of I.M. Pei completed ...
Tours de Notre Dame
The bell towers of Notre Dame are open to visitors everyday, but at an entrance fee of €8 for an adult. The entrance is at the base of the North Tower.It takes 422 steps on spiral staircases to reach the top of the western façade called the "grand...
Cathédrale de Notre Dame de Paris
Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris is more commonly known as Notre Dame, as the name in French is Cathédrale de Notre Dame de Paris. A bronze star at the square in front of the Cathedral was once the benchmark for distance measurement in the city of Par...
London: Tower Bridge
The Tower Bridge of London was built in 1894 and immediately recognised as a landmark of London, even today. Anybody seeing a picture of this bridge will immediately recognise it and its location.From afar, it looks like a suspension bridge, but its ...
It wasn’t Paris, It was you
If one were to pick an icon that represents Paris, I believe that there will be no dispute if one picks the Eiffel Tower (La Tour Eiffel). Having been built in 1889, this 120-year old steel structure is still standing strong against the gusty wind.La...
The State-of-the-art in Morning Business
Going to the toilet in the morning is probably the business that more than half of the world population do. The other one-tenth may go at different time of the day or on alternate days. Those in constipation may go once in a week. I am quite surpris...
Mansions on the Yamate Hill
The Yamate Hill at Yokohama was the area chosen by the European people for their settlement when the port was forced opened to foreign trade in 1859. Most of the mansions built by these earlier settlers still remain on the hill. There is also a Catho...
A Landmark, Indeed!
The Landmark Tower is one of the tallest buildings in Japan standing at the Minato Mirai 21 district in Yokohama. It stands at 296m tall with a shopping mall, restaurants, offices and a hotel inside it.There is an observatory on the 69th floor which ...
Wordless Wednesday – FUJI TV Headquarters
Location: Odaiba, Tokyo, JapanDate taken: May 6th, 2008Camera: Nikon D70s + Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D...
South Africa – Colours of Life in Cape Town
This is the last part of the whole series that on my South Africa trip in 2005. I hope you have enjoyed looking at my pics. Life on a street close to the sunset hour. Link-houses at the Bo Kaap Malay Quarter where most of the Malay people live. I was...
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office
I have been to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office for several times due to the abundance of photography subjects, including the bird-eye city view from the observatories which I will post later.It has got two towers, a ring-shape walkway connec...
Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo National Museum is the one museum that you should never miss if you decide to visit just one museum in Tokyo. There are five main galleries inside the museum compound, namely: Honkan, Toyokan, Heiseikan, The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures, and Hy...
