Park Slope (NYC Neighborhood) – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 114)
Park Slope is the gorgeous Brooklyn neighborhood I’m lucky to call home. It’s beautiful at any time of year, but summer is especially nice when the trees and flowers add color. It features luscious…
Ghost Town Carr – In A Colorado Minute (Week 186)
In my search for abandoned buildings (a personal passion) in Colorado, I came across a listing of ghost towns in Colorado… and found out that there supposedly was a ghost town just north…
National 9/11 Memorial – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 80)
The National 9/11 Memorial at the site of the World Trade Center in New York encompasses the footprints of the two towers turned into cascading waterfalls and surrounded by bronze parapets featuring the names of the…
Sanssouci – In A Berlin Minute (Week 65)
Sanssouci Park is a vast park in Potsdam, just outside of Berlin. It contains several castles, most famously Sanssouci Castle (Schloss Sanssouci) – the summer residence of Frederick the Great (aka Friedrich der Grosse), the king of Prussia…
M29 Bus: Neukölln / Krzkln / Kreuzberg (Bonus Video for In A Berlin Minute Week 59)
Take the M29 Bus with me from Neukölln via Kreuzkölln (or if you want to embrace the uber-hipness or mega gentrification even more: Krzkln) to East Kreuzberg (SO 36 or X-berg, if you will) and back. From Hermannplatz to…
Chiang Mai + Doi Inthanon (Thailand) – In Another Minute (Week 93)
On my first trip to Asia, I’m currently visiting my friend Jessica in Chiang Mai, a lovely city in the North of Thailand – full of temples, monks, street food, flowers and all kinds…
DUMBO – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 89)
D.U.M.B.O. (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is a Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood underneath the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. When I moved to New York in the late 90s, DUMBO was still a raw and…
Olympic Village Berlin (Olympisches Dorf) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 119)
The Olympic Village Berlin in Elstal was the first brick-on-brick Olympic village and is therefore the oldest Olympic village still in existence. It was built for the 1936 Olympics. In the beginning, it was…
