Tag: architecture

• New York’s Public Library as a Travel Destination

  Given the interest in the New York City Public Library’s Rose Reading Room (see response to the Weekly Photo Challenge “Illumination” theme), I thought you might enjoy a further look at what this building has to offer the traveler. While the building with the stone lions gracing its entry at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street…

  Kat at travelgardeneat

  01/13/2013

  Travel

  A. A. Milne, architecture, Christmas tree, hidden gem, library, McGraw Rotunda, New York City, Public Library, Rose Main Reading Room, Winnie-the-Pooh

• Vivaldi and La Sainte-Chapelle: A Transcendental Travel Experience

  “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is  music.” ~ Aldous Huxley Music has always held a special place in my heart, filling me with emotion and triggering memories like nothing else can do.  Perhaps that is why one of my favorite experiences from our trip to Paris was attending a chamber music concert of the…

  Kat at travelgardeneat

  12/18/2012

  Quotes, Travel

  architecture, arts, Bach, classical music, concert, Eiffel Orchestra, France, music, Paris, Sainte-Chapelle, stained glass, Vivaldi