Just a quick shot while in passing through the base of this Parisian landmark.
Shot early on a Sunday morning from a hotel window in the 16th Arrodisment of Paris. The subject had been standing there for some time before I ever started looking out of the window and was there at least a minute or two before I grabbed my camcorder. Sad.
I just visited a friend in Berlin. The last time I was there was the summer of 1997 while on a backpacking trip through 9 countries and at least as many cities in Western Europe and found Berlin to be my favorite. So much has changed there in the last 10 years that I hardly recognized entire areas of the city and it was as if I had never been here before. Examples: Potsdamer Platz: from dirt field trying to be a construction site to a "Times Square" experience; Oraniengburgstr. in Mitte: from no streetlights and buildings still slightly in rubble to swank cafes and restaurants. My friend lives in the Tiergarten in the Hansaviertel, an area dotted with utopian architecture from the 50s and 60s. My friend lives in one of these strange high-rise buildings (see picture).Fight Or Flight
On the Media
NPR
February 15, 2008
Frustrated with the liquid ban while flying? Too bad. Wondering why the Transportation Security Administration can strip search you? Good luck with that. That is, until now. The TSA has started a blog and security expert and TSA critic Bruce Schneier thinks it may usher in a new era of understanding between the government and the jet set. 
Click here to visit the On the Media website.
Click here to visit Evolution of Security, the TSA's blog.
Welcome to Expat Perspective, a series of posts by guest writers who come from X but are living long term in Y. Here's one from Kimberly, an American living and working in Shanghai ... and doing her best to document the rapidly changing cityscape. Thanks Kimberly!
Shanghai is tearing down old neighborhoods like crazy. Literally one day there is an old compound and the next it has been razed. I went walking around one of these razed compounds the other day and my friend snapped this shot.
Thanks to Emiana for passing on this Sky News article:
How Dubai Holiday Could Land You In Jail
By Julia Reid
Sky News
Updated:10:47, Friday February 08, 2008
Fair Trials International is advising travellers to "take extreme caution" to ensure they are completely free of any substance banned by the country they are visiting.
Click here for complete article.
