Tag Archives: UNESCO
OPP: Tower of London & Kensington Palace
Here we are, a full FIVE months after I returned from the UK. Before you get angry at the screeching halt put to the completion of my blog series about my Open Palace Program trip, understand that I was not out having fun and frolicking in the autumn sun. The last few months were spent […]
OPP: Bath, Part IV & Stonehenge
Our last full day in Bath was spent again with the wonderful women of the Bath Preservation Trust, this time at the Museum of Bath Architecture. Though a relatively small museum housed in the Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel, the museum offers an in depth look at how the classic Bath aesthetic was achieved over the […]
Open Palace Programme: Bath, Part III
On the third day of OPP, we were treated to a tour and workshop at No. 1 Royal Crescent, the re-created Georgian town house museum at Bath’s most famous housing landmark. The crescent was designed by John Wood the Younger and built between 1767-1774, and while the entire front facade was intended to be cohesive, […]
Open Palace Programme: Bath, Part II
Day two of OPP started with a taxi ride up a hill on the outskirts of Bath to Beckford’s Tower and Museum. William Beckford was a wealthy English aristocrat born in 1760, who was known even in his time as an eccentric and precocious character. While he is well known for the building of his […]
Open Palace Programme: Bath, Part I
As some of you may know, I am currently in England on a tour called the Open Palace Programme (OPP), which takes young heritage professionals around to British castles, country manors, museums, etc. to participate in lectures and workshops with the professionals working there. Today is our final day in our first stop of Bath, […]
Upper Middle Rhine Valley, Part I
After our amazing vacation on Crete last year, my boyfriend and I decided that for 2016 we wouldn’t be taking any big beach vacations. As much as we love them, there are a lot of things about Germany that we have still to explore, especially Matthias, so we decided to stay more “local”. Though I […]
Dujiangyan, Sichuan: Week 2
Well, so now it has officially been 4 months since I have returned back to Germany from China, but I still have a blog post to write. Sorry, sorry! I know that you are probably all over my Chinese experiences by now, but I just couldn’t leave the topic with only half of my time […]
Dujiangyan, Sichuan: Week 1
First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! Yes that’s right… it is the fourteenth day of 2015 and I am only now getting around to updating about the rest of the things I experienced in China. I’ve been home for over a month and, honestly, settling back in to Berlin life was not difficult at […]
Yangshuo, Part II
On my third day in Yangshuo I woke up before the sun and quickly, albeit groggily, took my bike Andre to head south of town to Moon Hill. It was so nice to be able to bike on the normally busy main road leading out of town and actually feel like I wouldn’t be run […]
Yangshuo, Part I
Back in the first week of October, I was faced with a decision. Stay in Shanghai watching movies on my computer and wandering around the streets of neighborhoods I had still no idea how to pronounce, or jump on a plane and visit a new place. Being that it was China’s Golden Week, everyone from […]
Daheim is where das Herz is... 