This weekend, my wife and I went out exploring and had a blast. My primary focus was to get some new views of the coast, but there were some pleasant surprises…
My son lived in an apartment near this sculpture. When my wife and I would leave his place, I found myself staring at this thing. It was installed recently…
Another Chinese art tradition that fascinates me is the Fu Lions, which are placed outside of temples, buildings, and businesses all over China. In the West, we…
Ice Festival, or rather, ValentIce. It was actually the week before, but the weather was awful. But it's Michigan. It's February. It's cold. Ice lasts a long…
And then, close to the visitor center ... a monument. For those ancient Magyars (Hungarians) who lived in this barren region. Tough people, so I did some tough…
This is Antony Gormley's, Iron:Man in Birmingham. Iron:Man is a statue by Antony Gormley, in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England. The statue is 6 metres (20 ft…
One but last post in the Debrecen series. One about a very interesting building on the same Piac utca where we've been hanging around for a few posts already.…
On the same street where you'll find the Aranybika szálloda (see previous post) you'll find a great number of other beautiful buildings and monuments. It is…
We started this Debrecen series on a street named after Kossuth Lajos (see here and here). As you have experienced many times in my Hungary related posts, roads…
We visited Debrecen on a rather hot day. And it was a 250 kilometres drive from our basecamp. So, we had good reasons not to enter a museum. But the Déri-múzeum…