I was in Switzerland and I was curious whether I would come across the famous Swiss banks. And I did, accidentally of course, just a door with a sign there was a bank there. 1. PKB Privatebank I was curious whether they have a website and they do, and the site is in English, French, Italian…
Usually I don’t fill out surveys, unless there is some reward. And this survey fulfilled the criteria 🙂 so I completed it, and I have noticed two faults in the survey. 1. The last column says ‘Don’t remember/Not applicable’, but they are different, you cannot just put them in the same column. I do remember what I talked with…
This concludes my series about Munich, Geneva to follow (hope I will find the time, to be read ‘I won’t procrastinate for too long’). Munich in 3 Days Munich 2 – Deutsches Museum Munich 3 – Dachau, ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ Munich 4 – BMW Museum Munich 5 – ‘Englischer Garten’ Munich 6 – The Place…
It is a … tent. I was so curious to see it – and if I ever have to stay there I hope it will be for fun and not financial reasons 🙂 – and take the customarily photos that the Tent made the list of what to see in Munich the moment I read about…
The Englischer Garten (German for “English Garden”) is one of the world’s largest urban public parks, larger than New York’s Central Park. If you come to Munich this park is a must see, best at the end of the day to relax in one of the 4 beergardens in the park: Chinesischer Turm (Chinese tower), Seehaus, Osterwald…
I cannot say I am a car enthusiast (as a matter of fact I don’t own one) but I wanted to visit the BMW Museum especially as it is located near the Olympiapark that was on my list too. BMW stands for “Bayerische Motoren Werke” (“Bavarian Motor Works”) and the attendance figures of the museum are,…
It’s quite old news but only recently did I read about it. “Air Canada has been named the ‘Best International Airline in North America’ in a worldwide survey of air travelers for the Skytrax World Airline Awards. In what Skytrax termed “a remarkable repeat success”, it is the third consecutive year Air Canada has ranked…
Dachau concentration camp was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, located about 16 km northwest of Munich. The camp opened on 22 March 1933 (51 days after Hitler took power) and it served as a prototype and model for the other Nazi concentration camps that followed. In the twelve years of…
ING Direct Canada has a promotion* (only for Canadian residents) that ends on Aug. 31 and this is the last time you will hear about it from me :). If you use my Orange Key 17148482S1 to open an account account with $100 or more in it you will get $50 and I will get…
They stop selling tickets at 4 pm and subsequently no-one is asking for them. Hence, the entry is de facto free for the last hour. I don’t know whether it happens every day but this is what I noticed when I left the museum. In the museum there is a replica of Fokker Dr. I….