The Need to Create

When I dragged my 30 pounds of luggage bag with me to the bus station two weeks ago, I said to myself, “on the road again”. It is a mixed feeling, leaving my $950 dollar shared apartment behind and getting into a completely new environment. There is a part of me that just wants to…

Three restaurant along the same street (Rue de Rivoli) have totally different prices. One of them is just insane, which makes you wonder whether the pleasure of food comes from the act of spending money or the consumption of actual food.

“Superchic, stylish, sexy, charming, arrogant, rude, bureaucratic, sexist, chauvinistic…” These are the words that Lonely Planet France used to characterize “The French”. On the matter of being rude, it is hard to fit my experience in Paris into the stereotypes described above.  To me, besides being the most beautiful city I have ever visited, Paris…

I thought that I am person with a pretty good sense of orientation, until when I got completely lost in the English Garden in Munich. It was in the afternoon, about 5pm, but it was completely dark already in Munich. After walking in the downtown area, I thought I’d check out this Chinese Tower in…