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The memorial of holocausto is between the Postdamer Platz and the door of Brandenburg; one is an enormous grid of pillars of gray cement of variable heights. Peter Eisenman was designed by the New York architect; it is a monument dedicated to the genocide of Jews in Europe. The memorial one forms a true labyrinth on a uneven ground and symbolizes, according to its creator, an abstract representation of a field of wheat whipped by the wind… The memorial was inaugurated in May of 2005, after two years of works and numerous controversies. In him there is an underground information center in which the tragic history of the Jews is counted. Behind this great cement structure there are buildings that are renewing. They will be destined to you soothe banking, hotels of luxury and the embassy of the United States.

Comments (0) Oct 13 2009

Dubai is 150 km of Abu Dhabi. A little more in car by absolutely rectilinear, soporific, continuous and monotonous a freeway takes half an hour. Once the last towers of Dubai are left back, fills a feeling to us of emptiness, infinite territory… Only desert to where the view reaches and asphalt roads, completely new. Lives here somebody? Beyond the highway, of the desert? The landscape marches past quickly after the lowered window of the Mercedes takes that me to the hotel where I lodge. Akim, the conductor, prefers to work at night due to the eternal traffic of Dubai. It could say that to lead during the fresh hours he is more pleasant, but not… We are at the beginning of June, they are the 02:00 in the morning and the temperature has not descended, or perhaps only a little. °C are 35 and the air is hot, is suffocating. We are not in tourist season and the hotels are empty, or almost. As of the autumn, the clients will begin to occupy these establishments, to everyone more luxurious. Abu Dhabi is looked like Dubai from this point of view, but it offers a perspective that hardly is in Dubai. The hotels are more extensive here, the sea is put in value in the first place and, with pleasing, a little is perceived the horizon if we inclined a little. The question is inasmuch as time? Commercial towers, hotels, restaurants and centers are constructed to an amazing and unavoidable speed. Modernity seizes progressively of the surroundings.

Comments (0) Oct 12 2009

Boston stands proud as the birthplace of the American Revolution and the present day hotbed of art, education and culture. For baseball fans, the city offers a taste of Red Sox history at Fenway Park.

With so much to see and do, we set off early in an effort to reach Boston by 9 a.m. Our primary intention was to walk along Boston’s scenic harborwalk, which has been constructed to provide easy access to the Harbor and connect the waterfront neighborhoods. Some parts of it are still undergoing extension.

Comments (0) Sep 04 2009

spent my summers by the sea. Always, a beach, a dock and a longing to be out in a boat followed me each successive summer as I joined family and friends at our family vacation home in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard or later, the Jersey Shore.

My grandmother used to belong to the Chappaquiddick Beach Club, and one of the swell things about this club is the big dock that allowed members to come over to the club by small boat.

I sat on that dock for hours, watching with envy the Boston Whalers and other small motorcraft that zipped in and out, piloted by grinning young men or bikini-clad teen girls. Oh how I wanted to be in that driver’s seat.

Fast forward 35 years, and I’m waking up after spending the night on the bridge of a 42’ Krogen trawler yacht owned by the friends of a friend. When my pal Jack asked me if I’d like to rendezvous with Denny and Laraine and spend a few days on their boat off the coast of Chappaquiddick, it didn’t take me a second to say yes.

Comments (0) Sep 03 2009

Canada has always remained a mystery to me. It is rarely mentioned in politics, history or just in good old banter. Kind of like the quiet kid who sits in the back of the class that you suddenly find so alluring.

My Aunt invited me to stay with her at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal for a few days while she attended a convention. I figured this was a true opportunity to dig down as deep as I could to answer the question that has been haunting me: What is it with Canada?

I awoke bright and early to meet Claire-Marie Lavoie, a tour guide from the Infotouriste Centre who would be showing me around the best parts of the city via van.

Comments (0) Sep 02 2009