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Wave goodbye to an incredible 2010 during Hogmanay in Edinburgh

January 2, 2011 by madlennicolaus

After years of “Silvester” and “New Year” celebrations I was finally ready for “Hogmanay” and wanted to wave goodbye to my first year on the Island with Cèilidh or céilí in Edinburgh, Scotland. As the “Edinburgh Hogmanay Party” claims to be the be…

Categories: Travel • Tags: 2010, 2011, Arthur's Seat, Carissa Ray, Castle, Cèilidh, céilí, Celebrations, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh Hogmanay Party, Hewat's, Hogmanay, largest New Year event, New Year, photo blog post, Scotland, Scottish-French, Silvester, Wave goodbye

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From Weihnachtsfest to Christmas, a tale of two countries.

December 26, 2010 by madlennicolaus

Okay here we go! Double Christmas 2010! This year was my first double Christmas! What’s a double Christmas you ask? Why do I keep saying double? Well that’s what happens when you have a Weihnachtsfest on the 24th in Saxony, Germany, and a Christma…

Categories: Events, Other, Travel • Tags: Boxing Day, Deutschbaselitz, Double Christmas 2010, Germany, Happy Holidays, iPad, Island, Kloster St. Marienstern, Panschwitz-Kuckau, Saxony, UK, Wind in the Willows

New York New York during Christmas time

December 25, 2010 by madlennicolaus

After watching “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” many, many times when I was a child, I always wanted to see New York City during Christmas time. So when I had to go to our Kodak headquarters in Rochester, NY for some meetings at the end of Decembe…

Categories: Travel • Tags: 5th Avenue, Bloomberg, Brooklyn Bridge, Bryant Park, Century 21, Cheesecake, Christmas, Christmas Tree, fast-food tourism style, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Kodak Headquarters, Macy's, Mexican Radio, New York, New York City, NYC, Rochester, Rockefeller Center, Soho, Times Square, Union Square, visit december Kodak, Xmas gifts

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Adventures in Paris – Ice cold beauty

December 19, 2010 by madlennicolaus

In mid flight between New York, London, and two weeks of Christmas holidays, I finally had some time to really reflect on craziness of this last month: Berlin – London – Paris – Rochester – New York. Did I miss anything? I don’t know. December def…

Categories: Travel • Tags: 200 paintings, Chez Grenoulle, Christmas holidays, Claude Monet, French, Gare du Nord, Grand Palais, Ketchum Digital, L'Ecluse, Les Catacombes de Paris, LeWeb10, London, lunch, Mid Flight, Monet Retrospective, Montmartre Hill, Paris, Sacre Coeur, The Catacombs, the city of Love, visit december Kodak

This is England.

November 14, 2010 by madlennicolaus

Yesterday afternoon I discovered a very cute part of the Island… a bit unexpected, too. It was the average lazy Saturday – grey skies outside, not willing to stay inside, but not feeling like driving into the city either… Luckily we remembered a t…

Categories: Other, Travel • Tags: Aldbury, Aldbury Village, Ashridge Estate, English Village, grey skies, lazy Saturday, The Greyhound, Tring

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Hoch oben – Above Vienna

October 20, 2010 by madlennicolaus

For the last two and a half days, I have been seeing Vienna for the very first time. I’d been to Austria on almost a yearly basis, but only to the snowy mountains and glaciers. I have never made it to its pretty capital. Which is a shame, really. …

Categories: Travel • Tags: amazing, ambuzzador, birds eye view, Buzzattack, Kahlenberg, Koadk, Madlen, St.Stephan's Cathedral, Tanz Baby!, Vienna, Wien

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Falling in love with Vancouver

October 2, 2010 by madlennicolaus

Unbelievable, but it is almost 3 weeks since I sat on top of Cypress Mountain in Vancouver, totally amazed at how pretty the city looked at night. I have never seen anything like it. If you think of New York, or even San Francisco (where we just c…

Categories: Travel • Tags: Cypress Mountain, English Bay, False Creek, Granville Island, Light Graffiti, Mother Nature’s Stairmaster, Pacific Coast, San Francisco, skyscrapers, The Farmers Market, The Grouse Grind, The Templeton, Vancouver, Vancouverites, Whale watching, Whales Vancouver

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Road Trippin’ Memories from A to BC

September 12, 2010 by madlennicolaus

What to do if you have 7 days, 3 US States, and a distance of minimum 1.200 miles to drive from San Francisco to the Canadian border along the 101? You have to make serious tourist type plans. So we did. We decided on the most impressive bridges, …

Categories: Travel • Tags: 101, Astoria, bed&breakfast, breakfast of champions, Canadian Border, Depoe Bay, Fillmore Street, Golden Gate, HUMPHRY SLOCOMBE, Lombard Street, Lori’s Diner, Memories, Napa Valley, Pacific Heights, Pier 39, PIXAR, Redwood Forest, Road Trippin, San Francisco, TripAdvisor.com, Whale Watching Capital of Oregon, Wine Valley

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PIXAR – A playground for grown ups.

September 8, 2010 by madlennicolaus

Okay, Pixar films are awesome. I love their animation, but I never expected that their offices would be anything near as cool. So, last week when we were invited for a tour by our animator friend Robb… Well, I was only kind of semi-interested. Wha…

Categories: Travel • Tags: animation, awesome, Buzzattack, gate, grown ups, human sized Lego Woody, Luxo Jr., offices, PIXAR, Pixar headquarter, Playground, strangers from the outside

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Wave goodbye to an incredible 2010 during Hogmanay in Edinburgh

From Weihnachtsfest to Christmas, a tale of two countries.

New York New York during Christmas time

Adventures in Paris – Ice cold beauty

This is England.

Hoch oben – Above Vienna

Falling in love with Vancouver

Road Trippin’ Memories from A to BC

PIXAR – A playground for grown ups.