Category Archives: travel

EUROPE TRIP: THE VENICE BIENNALE

The Biennale a major contemporary art exhibition, which happens every two years in Venice. This year was the Biennale of Architecture, where well known architects and designers can showcase new projects, arranged in different pavilions, each with different themes. This year’s theme was called “Common Ground” and each Pavilion housed a different country’s take on the theme. It’s the kind […]

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EUROPE TRIP: VENICE, ITALY

Venice is magical. The whole time we were there, I just kept thinking… this can’t be real. I felt like I was at Disneyland or on a set. Is that being jaded? Or living in LA too long? It just didn’t seem fathomable to me that a city on the water with this amount of […]

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EUROPE TRIP: OXFORD

The first stop on our trip was Oxford, England. My friend Janey recently moved there for work and she has the most darling flat. (I sound british, right?). We awoke the first morning, groggy and jet-lagged to Janey’s presentation of tea and crumpets (with Nutella). While Janey had already grown tired of the rain, Greg […]

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IRELAND / PART II

The Cliffs of Moher is Ireland’s most visited tourist attraction– and definitely worth going. It’s hard to capture the scale of how large these cliffs are. They are where the depicted in the movie “The Princess Bride” as the elusive “Cliffs of Insanity“. And, apparently, around the edge is a notorious big-wave surfing spot.  roulette […]

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