Sherementev Palace Music Museum (must see)
The Sheremntev Palace is placed on the bank of the Fontana river street, just off Nevsky Prospect. It is very hard to miss this beautiful palace, which owned by Field-Marshal Boris Sheremetev – the...
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Historical sand statues – Peter and Paul fortress beach
Look at those magnificent sand statues… Once a year, as part of the Saint Petersburg day celebrations, at Peter and Paul Fortress (on the bank of the Neva river, Saint Petersburg) a group of...
How to assess the potential of a .com idea/venture?
I have been looking at the evolution of the .com as a .com web veteran to set some high level thumb rules for assessing new ideas. When assesing new ventures, I would take that...
Old city of Zurich, thoughts about cultural differences and art
We stopped in Zurich on our way to Israel from Japan. Zurich is a small and beautiful town built around the outlet of the Limmat river falling to the Zurich lake. The lake is...
Osaka – a relaxed business center
Just 35km or 30min train drive from Kyoto (with Shinkanzen, the super express train, it takes 15min) and we are in Osaka, a city of 2.7 million people and metropolin of more than 20...
Funny English Translations in Japan and thoughts about English
“The Coke of food for specified health use” – that is probably the funniest translation mismatch I could find in Japan. But it is not the only one… how would you relate to the...
Kinkakuji Cho – the golden temple and Nishiki market (Kyoto)
The golden temple – kinkakuji Cho was originally a villa called Kitayama-dai (北山第), belonging to a powerful statesman, Saionji Kintsune. Kinkaku-ji’s history dates to 1397, when the villa was purchased from the Saionji family...
Nara city – tamed deers, huge Budha statues and good Japanease food
Initially I thought that visiting Nara would be a waste of time, and as the train approached the city it looked as an unpleasant industrial city, but once you get off the train you...
Kyoto day 2: Fushimi Inari Taisha mountain and Nijo-jo castle
Fushima Inari Taisha is a spectacular Buddhist track placed in the southern eastern part of Kyoto, just two stations (3km) away from the Kyoto train station, 5 min walk if you take off at...
Kyoto day 1: Kiyozimu temple and Gion suburb
We started our day by walking from Kyoto train station up north toward the Kyoto national museum, and reached the spectacular temple Rengeoin Sanjusangedo on the other side of the street. This historical place...
Kanazawa city and the castle gardens
From Takayama we continued 120km East to Kanazawa city, a city of about half a million people still it looks more developed and cleaner than Auckland. The journey combined a very slow train journey...
Takayama and Shirakawa Go – small mountain towns
Takayama is a small town (in Japanese standards) of about 100,000 people, placed inside the mountains about 300km east of Tokyo. You can get there by train from Nagoya or buy bus, the train...
Top sites to visit in Tokyo
Top places should not be missed when you are in Tokyo: 1. Imperial Palace East Gardens The imperial palace is closed for visitos but the East Gardens, bridges and historical towers are open to...
Small traffic related ideas to learn from the Japanese
As you may know I’m travelling in Japan at the moment and while travelling I have noticed some road related design differences between Japan and New Zealand. Some of the differences are big so...
Tokyo is not so expensive as people say
So we arrived to Tokyo and after 24 hours here and you already noticed that some things are different to what you have been told. The main surprise is that Tokyo is not so...
Tokyo is such an amazing city!
We landed in Tokyo after a long trip from Wellington and a series of events which made the planned 12 hours trip last for more than 2 days. The extreme weather conditions that hit...
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges II owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. The mirror troubled the depths of a corridor in a country...
The water tank challenge…?
So I wanted to install a storm water tank – to collect all the exgtra rain water that drains from our roof.
Growing our own veggies, in Wellington
Wellington is SO windy, that sometimes you hear people saying – “grow your own? nothing grows here!”. Well, lots can grow here, if you do it the right way.
The respondent: God
In May 2016, a guy named D.S. appealed to the Haifa court for a restraining order against… God. I know that it sounds hilarious but this is an hilarious case that shows – from...
Hashtags scraper apps
This small cool app – “HashLighter“, is a small Chrome browser extension that can scrape hashtags from any website. You can run it on “automatic pilot” mode or just let it collect hashtags as...
Digital properties for sale
Note#1: if you buy anything from the list, you will get a domain name from series A, free to your choice. Note#2: We won’t have time for time wasters – do your own research...
