By bluerasberry on 2019-08-14
On Wednesday 14 August 2019 I talked with Lodewijk about Wiki Loves Monuments. He asked me to avoid saying anything firm about the project before talking to others, and to ask Multichill in particular. What follows are messy notes! Avoid quoting, and assume that there are errors here! A tenth anniversary is special. A ninth […]
Posted in art, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged contest, monument, Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-31
On Sunday 15 July Fabian and I visited the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town. After purchasing an admission ticket at the entrance we walked through through about 20 rooms to visit every gallery in this medium-sized museum. There was a mix of permanent and special exhibits in a variety of galleries. The […]
Posted in art, museum, South Africa, tour | Tagged discrimination
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-29
Fabian and I visited Kruger National Park. On Wednesday 11 July we flew from Johannesburg to Skukuza Airport, which is in Kruger Park. We picked up a rental car and drove 2.5 hours to Satara Lodge where we stayed 2 nights. The night of the 12th we took a nighttime tour to see nocturnal animals […]
Posted in animal, South Africa, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged monkey, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-27
The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg has a global contemporary museum design to convey the most objective information without making demands that visitors work hard to understand. It was an easy museum to visit in terms of how much I had to think to be able to understand the exhibits. For anyone who wants the museum […]
Posted in museum, South Africa, tour | Tagged discrimination
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-26
On Tuesday 10 July 2018 Fabian and I joined a tour group which advertised trips to Soweto. The tour included a drive around Soweto and and explanation but what I really wanted was the walking tour of the place that was a slum, or shanty town, ghetto, or favela. Soweto has a long history but […]
Posted in museum, rights, South Africa, tour | Tagged death, discrimination
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-25
We went to the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. The monument is a combination of a memorial to the Dutch colonists who died in the course of various violent conflicts during their settling in South Africa, and a gallery of exhibits in which the early 20th century Dutch tell their own story the colonizing experience, and […]
Posted in rights, South Africa, tour | Tagged discrimination, monument
By bluerasberry on 2017-09-28
Fabian and I left NYC for Seattle in the late afternoon of Wednesday 13 September 2017. I had been telling him about Seattle for so long, and he had never been. My hope for the visit was that I could show him what the city meant to me, and how what I did in places around […]
Posted in personal, Seattle, tour | Tagged coffee
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
On Wednesday 15 June we went to Venice. Venice is a city of waterways, but it is also a regular boring city on the water. All tourists go to the island part of Venice, but there is another part of Venice on the Italian mainland. I learned this because there is a trainstop there. I […]
Posted in Italy, museum, tour | Tagged Venice
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
On 10 June when we arrived at our apartment in Florence our host presented us with a map and some visiting suggestions. Among other things, he recommended that he have dinner at Santo Spirito, which is a plaza where people hang out at night and there are also restaurants there. We decided to go there […]
Posted in Italy, museum, tour | Tagged Florence
By bluerasberry on 2016-07-02
On the evening of Thursday 3 June Fabian and I began a vacation to Italy. Wikimania is in Northern Italy later in the month, so I had planned to go to Italy for that. Both of us arranged our work for a pause and talked about what we wanted to do, and we agreed that […]
Posted in Italy, museum, tour | Tagged Rome