[lit-ideas] Global village
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- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 20:08:50 +0200
I see on the BBC website that there's a (free!) water taxi from
Manhattan to the new Ikea store in Brooklyn.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7589322.stm
Would it be realistic (and recommended) to consider walking from there
to the world-renowned Botanical Garden
http://www.bbg.org/
and Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
in/near Prospect Park?
Chris Bruce
wondering whether this could be
the straw that tips the balance
in musings about a trip to NYC
(last visited September 1979), in
Kiel, Germany
PS: I say that I've visited NYC, but I've actually never been off the
Island Manhattan ("smoke on your pipe and put that in") in my three
visits.
PPS: I'm serious. My first trip to Germany was precipitated by
viewing a picture of a spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) in a
display cabinet at the Meeresmuseum in Stralsund
http://www.meeresmuseum.de/english/content/index.htm
(unfortunately no picture of the monster there, but you can see and
read about it at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_spider_crab )
and saying 'I'd go to to Germany to see that!' (Luckily I contacted
the museum in advance, and was informed that at that time the monster
was not on display as recent research had necessitated a new paint job
[not their exact words], but that a private visit in the workshop
could be arranged.)
This in turn precipitated my first trip to Copenhagen - and thus
Tivoli Gardens
http://www.tivoli.dk/composite-3351.htm
the Botanisk Have & Museum
http://botanik.snm.ku.dk/english/
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
http://www.glyptoteket.dk/aba16797-8ba2-485d-81e3-b77f148de1da.W5Doc?frames=yes
and the *exceptional* Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
http://www.louisiana.dk/dk/Service+Menu+Right/English
was precipitated by arranging with a friend (since I haven't checked
with him, I'll keep *that* website private), whose sabbatical in
Sweden coincided with that trip to Germany, 'to meet somewhere in the
middle for coffee'.
-cb
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