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Würzburg, Germany: The Residenz

Posted on August 15, 2011 | 4 Comments
Trip Taken: 2005 On a gray cloudy summer day in Bavaria, our group of intrepid travelers arrived at the northwestern tip of Bavaria and into a town called Würzburg. This city is an important transfer point for a lot of rail traffic in Germany and...
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany: The Medieval Town

Posted on August 10, 2011 | No Comments
Rothenburg ob der Tauber was one of the towns that was very high on the list of places I wanted to visit while I was still in Germany. Rothenburg is one of those towns in the middle of the Bavarian tourist trap known as the Romantic Road. It is one of the best preserved towns in Europe because it was never bombed during World War 2.
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New York, New York: Nyonya Malaysian Cuisine

Posted on August 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
Sitting on top of Rockefeller Center, I met a very cool Malaysian family from Australia. They were very friendly and even suggested a very good Malaysian place they said that I must try. It was called Nyonya and it was in Chinatown.
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New York, New York: Top of the Rock

Posted on August 1, 2011 | No Comments
Rockefeller Plaza is where one of my favorite shows takes place, '30 Rock' on NBC. Though I don't think I would want to bump into Liz Lemon in real life. Maybe to look at the train wreck from a far but never be caught in the maelstrom.
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New York, New York: Museum of Natural History

Posted on July 29, 2011 | No Comments
The third, but no less important, museum I wanted to visit in New York was the American Museum of Natural History. It is kind of funny to me that this museum is on the Upper West Side and the The Met is on the Upper East Side.
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New York, New York: Around the New York Public Library

Posted on July 28, 2011 | 4 Comments
After spending the better part of the early afternoon at the twin tower site, I decided to do visit some of the miscellaneous tourist places on my list of things to do in New York. So, I decided to go shopping, visit the public library, and Grand Central Terminal.
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New York, New York: Twin Tower Site

Posted on July 27, 2011 | No Comments
My visit to New York City also coincided with the single most devastating act of terrorism on US soil. It would be the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
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New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art

Posted on July 26, 2011 | No Comments
The second museum I wanted to visit was the Museum of Modern Art or better known as MoMa. There is the MoMa PS1 in Brooklyn, but I only had intentions to visit the main complex. I probably would visit the Whitney or the Guggenheim before the PS1.
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New York, New York: The Guggenheim Food Day

Posted on July 25, 2011 | No Comments
With three museums under my belt, I was reluctant to go to the Guggenheim Museum. There wasn't anything I really wanted to see there and it was all the way up on the northeast side of Central Park.
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New York, New York: Flushing for the US Open and Chinese Food

Posted on July 25, 2011 | No Comments
Trip Taken: 2010 My trip to New York City coincided with one of the biggest tennis events in the world, the US Open. It is one of the four major tennis tournaments in the world. The other being the French Open, Australian Open, and Wimbledon....
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