to cities around the world
[drawing courtesy of then-8-year-old Lauren Jarred; turning it upside-down wouldn’t give you Sydney and its Harbour Bridge though, we note] There are many bridge adventures you can have while you are in Sydney, even if the most popular is to climb the Harbour Bridge! We at Madeleine’s like to do some other bridge things … Read more
[We write this in honour of the bells of Notre-Dame returning to service earlier in November, with 3 new bells also, for the first time since the 2019 fire that threatened to destroy the Parisian landmark which is celebrating its reopening this weekend.] We at Madeleine’s love the Gulou area of Beijing with its many hutongs Read more
(continuing from Part 1) As for Anne Frank and her diary-writing, the story of the 13-year-old who documented her thoughts and observations in daily diaries from 1942 onwards while hiding in “the secret annex” in what is known today as Anne Frank House, putting her skills of observing things around her and writing them down Read more
Many know that Madeleine the travelista shared her inspirations while a 6-year-old that she wanted to “travel around the whole wide world”. Our very own travelista loves Paris, a city with a lot to like: art, design, culture, gardens, food, history, architecture. Then, there’s London: yes Paris has buildings wrapped with plants, but London has Read more
Did you know there are vineyards in various places in Paris? I guess they can be called urban vineyards? (Yes, we at Madeleine’s have been thinking about vineyards as we’ve recently spent some time on an island vineyard in Italy, even if course we have also been thinking about Paris, the Olympics taking place right Read more
Did your London friends tell you about the Green Park’s Underground roundel turned into Green Planet (as it did in January 2022 to celebrate David Attenborough’s TV series?) First, you will have to have a park called Green Park, then you’ll have a station named after it – a feat that neither Hyde Park nor Read more
Now that autumn coolness has descended upon us (at least those of us in the northern hemisphere), we can definitely remember the very hot Europe we were in this late summer, London followed by Paris followed by Antwerp, and before then we were in “southern winter” in Sydney. “The world” as we found in these Read more
With many countries experiencing an energy crunch and gas prices going through the roof, and as many cities around the world are still recovering from Covid restrictions and Covid-related angst, we must share some promising and even amazing ideas that we’ve seen in our travels to many cities in the world. In fact, there’s been Read more
[An early April update: Hong Kong Museum of Art has opened up some of its multimedia collections online in its virtually@HKMoA initiative while the museum is itself still closed to public access.] We at Madeleine’s have been spending time in a city where there is definitely a siege-like feel: shops have shorter hours, office-workers are working Read more
We wanted to share our small obsession about London’s Wellcome Collection including its library with comfy sofas and cushions as well as tall windows with lots of light and space and its “Bookshelf of the Human Genome”. Really, it is one of the coolest places in London. It is a “library” with cushions scattered over Read more