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Paris: Place du Trocadéro + Statue Équestre de Maréchal Foch
[photo © BG Street View]
12 February 2022
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06 January 2021
[photo © BG Street View]
Cavas Freixenet: Sant Sadurní d'Anoia | Alt Penedès · Cataluña España
Another Catalan Modernisme Style Building
Get here from Barcelona in a little over a half an hour on the Freixetren
They provide an excellent tour and the opportunity to taste a variety of their products not often seen in stores.
04 October 2020
[photo © BG Street View]
Frankfurt: ECB HQ
One of the 606 ft. tall twin towers along the Main —at the former site of the Grossmarkthalle [the wholesale market hall] in the city's Ostend district— topped out in 2012 and inaugurated in 2015, is part of the European Central Bank headquarters. The earlier headquarters, the Eurotower at Willy-Brandt-Platz in the Innenstadt, is home to an affiliate institution, the Single Supervisory Mechanism.
01 October 2020
[photo by BG]
Barcelona: Façade of former Estació Del Nord
[now Estación Norte de Autobuses]
The 1915 front of the former main train station in Barcelona —long abandoned but eventually given new life as the city's principal bus terminal.
You could arrive at the bus station —whose main entrance is in fact to one side of the building— and completely miss the monumental façade, a blend of Catalan Modernisme and Vienna Secession styles, designed by [Valencia native] architect Demetri Ribes i Marco. Try not to.
27 September 2020
[photo by BG]
San Clemente CA Pier from Amtrak Surfliner
The Amtrak Surfliner —running from San Luis Obispo to San Diego via Santa Barbara and LA— is simply one of the great train rides in North America, among other things enabling a same-day LA-San Diego downtown-to-downtown round-trip without the hassles of driving. Three hours each way. Thirteen times a day.
True to its name, the train follows the Pacific coast much of the way, with views of sand, surf, surfers, palms and —when the coastal fog clears— sun. Plus the occasional glimpse into community life, as seen above.
Northbound from LA, Santa Barbara is also a three-hour ride —but only five times daily, and to-and-from "San Luis," as locals call it, only twice.
Check it out here and enjoy the ride: Amtrak Pacific Surfliner
26 September 2020
[photo by BG]
"Little Shop Of Kerouac"
Ozone Park · Queens NYC
It was on the second floor of this building that Jack Kerouac, living with his mother —though obviously not in her basement— during much of the 1940s, post-Columbia, post-Merchant Marine, wrote his first novel, the Thomas Wolfe-ian The Town And The City and apparently began planning what by 1957 would become On The Road.
To get there from Manhattan [or JFK], pull a Duke Ellington and take the A Train, getting off at Rockaway Boulevard [n.b., not Rockaway Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant] and walk less than a half-mile down Cross Bay Boulevard to the corner of 133rd Avenue
Kerouac historian Patrick Fenton notes that when the ground-floor store —once a flower shop, now a dance school— was a pharmacy, Kerouac worked there as a soda jerk.
Those wishing to drink even more deeply of the writer's legend could cross the boulevard to the Crossbay Sportsbar, the former Kerouac haunt McNulty's, later known as Glen Patrick's Pub.
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