Prague’s Jerusalem Synagogue: Where Gumbo Was (#129)
August 31, 2015
In a city with some of the oldest synagogues in Europe, we wandered into one of the newest, just over a century old. It’s not
In a city with some of the oldest synagogues in Europe, we wandered into one of the newest, just over a century old. It’s not
This is a tale of one architect, one owner and two houses on the same foundation. It’s also, because it’s about Frank Lloyd Wright, a
Shanghai wants the world to know it’s not taking second place to anyone in the Leaning Tower business, and they have numbers to make their case. Alright, they admit, the Shanghai tower, at right above, is only about 20 meters high compared with…
After 3 stiff drinks, SAS wants you to stick to the soft stuff… Photo: Xianxing / Wikimedia SAS, the big Scandinavian carrier,
The Gumbo Guessers have done their best with this week’s puzzle, but it has defied solution, although Jonathan L got the right city. It’s Berlin, alright, a city with two rail transit systems (U-Bahn and S-Bahn) and where poor maintenance caused a…
Paris’s Parc des Buttes Chaumont, in the eastern part of the city, can fool you. In this case, it fooled all but PortMoresby, who somehow knew this seemingly tropical wilderness, with its sketchy bridge and photographed through falling rain, was really “faux rain forest,” and knew which one.
The de facto national library of the United States is housed in a beautiful Beaux Arts building worth a visit for that alone
Gumbo likes the idea that there are many places that look alike, and yet have some “feel” of their own that sets them apart. Experienced travelers looked and placed it in several different locations…none of them bad guesses.
The Banco de Espana building in Madrid had Gumbo’s attention when he was taking the puzzle picture, and what caught him was the stark difference in sculptural decoration in the picture—but the building as a whole is worth a look, too. It…
The Banco de Espana building in Madrid had Gumbo’s attention when he was taking the puzzle picture, and what caught him was the stark difference
In a city with some of the oldest synagogues in Europe, we wandered into one of the newest, just over
This is a tale of one architect, one owner and two houses on the same foundation. It’s also, because it’s
Shanghai wants the world to know it’s not taking second place to anyone in the Leaning Tower business, and they have numbers to make their case. Alright, they admit, the Shanghai tower, at right above, is only about 20 meters high compared with…
After 3 stiff drinks, SAS wants you to stick to the soft stuff… Photo: Xianxing / Wikimedia
The Gumbo Guessers have done their best with this week’s puzzle, but it has defied solution, although Jonathan L got the right city. It’s Berlin, alright, a city with two rail transit systems (U-Bahn and S-Bahn) and where poor maintenance caused a…
Paris’s Parc des Buttes Chaumont, in the eastern part of the city, can fool you. In this case, it fooled all but PortMoresby, who somehow knew this seemingly tropical wilderness, with its sketchy bridge and photographed through falling rain, was really “faux rain forest,” and knew which one.
The de facto national library of the United States is housed in a beautiful Beaux Arts building worth a visit for that alone
Gumbo likes the idea that there are many places that look alike, and yet have some “feel” of their own that sets them apart. Experienced travelers looked and placed it in several different locations…none of them bad guesses.
The Banco de Espana building in Madrid had Gumbo’s attention when he was taking the puzzle picture, and what caught him was the stark difference in sculptural decoration in the picture—but the building as a whole is worth a look, too. It…
The Banco de Espana building in Madrid had Gumbo’s attention when he was taking the puzzle picture, and what caught