The Bushniks

This week I did another tour of the galleries on Chelsea.  I saw four very high quality shows of black and white photographs, by Robert Adam...

My daily routine in New York has settled into a pattern of working in the morning and talking a walk in the afternoon, sometimes short and s...

On Tuesday night, we went to another NYC Ballet concert, this time only 50% Balanchine and 50% Stravinsky.  The first piece was "Rubies...

On Sunday, my sister and her husband came up to New York.  They share an interest with me in photographs, so after brunch, we proceeded to v...

Both Vera and I are happily adjusting to our new routines of life in the city, learning where to find our food, setting up our workspaces, a...

Our cultural season has started in earnest, so much so that I have fallen behind in my blog.  Two ballets, a concert, and an "opera...

We are back in New York, this time for an extended stretch.  It feels great to be here.  For the most part, we have spent our first week get...

As I mentioned in the beginning of this trip blog, I went to all these cities on a family trip in 1967.   What I have retained in my mem...

So we are at the airport, and our flight is delayed.   Because we fly so much on Air Canada, they let us in to these fancy lounges with free...

Today we walked around Copenhagen, and saw a "newer" area that was more like French cities of the 19th Century.  We made the oblig...

Today we went to the Danish National Gallery.   Not a great collection, but interesting nonetheless.   Name a famous Danish painter....   We...

We arrived in Copenhagen this afternoon after a short flight from Oslo.  Copenhagen is a great walking city; the whole center is mostly narr...

It was a cold, rainy day in Oslo.   We went to the Vigeland Sculpture Park, where the eponymous sculptor worked from 1925 - 1945 creating a ...

Today we took a ferry to see the Viking ships.   These ships were actually buried in the 9th  century; if you were important, you were burie...

Today we flew from Stockholm to Oslo  (a one hour flight, cost, $63).   No snow in Oslo, luckily.   Oslo feels more American than anyplace w...

To be honest, Stockholm is a bit of letdown after St. Petersburg.   Instead of broad, open vistas, I see intricate, convoluted cityscapes.  ...

We are in Stockholm, back to the normal Europe.  Stockholm is much bigger than Helsinki, and parts of the the downtown fell victim to urban ...

We left Russia today.   I can't help but reflect on the fact that for people my age, we learned growing up that Russia was the enemy.  I...

Ada was feeling overtouristed and worn out today, so she slept in.   Vera and I went to the Russian Art Museum. Most interesting were the la...

Today we went to a town on the suburbs, Tsarskoye Selo, to visit the summer palace and gardens of Catherine the Great.   Described by Ada as...