Ugh! (Taken with instagram)
View from a Williamsburg rooftop #MagicHour (Taken with Instagram at 184 Kent Rooftop)
After the unfortunate result of the Champions League finale in Munich yesterday, I was looking for some photos from there, but we have precious few photos from the twelve years I’ve been living there. This one shows the Olympia Park, the location of the Olympics 1972, taken from the television tower in the park. In the right upper corner is the stadium, which would have been the location of the finale up until a few years ago. Now, I’m not even sure what it is used for.
We used to live not far from there - in one of the buildings on the very upper left corner.
Checking out my new commute (Taken with Instagram at Newport PATH Station)
Goodbye Wall St: my favorite lunch hangout (Taken with Instagram at Battery Park)
Good bye Wall St: I’m a big fan of food carts, in particular the old ones. It’s still the cheapest way of getting a full meal and it is delicious. Here’s Xpress lunch on Wall and Pearl Sts., one of my favorites.
Speaking about Titanic and the movie: back in 1998 we saw that movie and got inspired to do the transatlantic crossing on the Queen Elizabeth 2 for honeymoon, under the assumption that there were no icebergs in November and modern technology would help ship to avoid them anyway.
Here’s me, shortly before embarkation in Southampton, England.
The Titanic Exhibition of the Seaport Museum
Three things to be learned from the Titanic exhibition at the Seaport museum:
1. First class passengers were the largest group of travelers, roughly as many as third class and twice as much as second class passengers.
2. While there were a few of those lavish accommodations known from the movie, most of the first class staterooms were small and stuffed.
3. The rescue activities were almost “live-tweeted” by a marine communication system called Marconi.
