Swetsville Zoo – In A Colorado Minute (Week 194)
American Roadside Attractions – something about them is quite mystical. They evoke the image of America as an adventure land without borders, crisscrossed by long highways, strewn with fascinating characters on and off…
Flushing Meadows World’s Fair (Queens) – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 90)
Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens hosted the World Fair in 1939/40 and 1964/65 and still features several iconic and slightly extraterrestrial seeming structures left from those fairs. Among the structures at the Flushing…
Pawnee National Grassland – In A Colorado Minute (Week 181)
When you turn your back on the Rocky Mountains in the west and head east from Fort Collins, Colorado, you suddenly find yourself in a completely different landscape: the Pawnee Grassland – a…
Tierpark Zoo – In A Berlin Minute (Week 163)
Hauptstadt Zoo Tierpark is the zoo in the former East Berlin, not to be mixed up with Berlin Zoologischer Garten, the zoo in former West Berlin, or Tiergarten, the large park in the…
Seaman Reservoir – In A Colorado Minute (Week 218)
Seaman Reservoir is a hidden oasis just a short drive north-west of Fort Collins, Colorado. Tugged away behind hills along Poudre Canyon Road (Highway 14), it’s accessed through the Gateway Natural Area, which…
Cosplay at Sakura Matsuri – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 105)
One of the intriguing features of the Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom Festival) at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are all the people participating in cosplay, which is a combination of wearing a costume and role-playing based…
Autumn Colors – In A Colorado Minute (Week 182)
The autumn colors (or fall colors, if you prefer) are stunning in Colorado, Berlin and Brooklyn. This week I am bringing you colorful impressions from in and around Fort Collins, Colorado. But if…
Tempelhof Airport – In A Berlin Minute (Week 16)
A few years after planes stopped taking off from the historic (and at times controversial) Berlin Tempelhof Airport (Flughafen Berlin-Tempelhof), this summer, the centrally located city airport opened as a public park. So we…
