Victoria and Albert Museum

Zak consulting our map under Thomas Heatherwick's traffic cone canopy at the V&A.

Tate Modern

There were large groups of students in every museum we visited.

January 2012

January was a crafty month for us: I worked on several sewing projects, and Zak carved a set of salad spoons for his mom and a butter knife for us. We also visited the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, and celebrated Zak's birthday.

Locks of love

A view from the passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, a pedestrian bridge over the Seine. This is a common sight in Europe: padlocks etched with couples' names attached to bridges. The Musée d'Orsay stands in the background.

Ferrari Museum

We visited the Ferrari Museum in Maranello on our third day. In the parking lot, there were several businesses 

offering 15-minute test drives for 80 euros.

Today is a holiday in our canton. For a little taste of Switzerland today, in addition to this Italian post, I offer a link to this great blog written by a family from Minnesota living in Zug, in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. Be sure to watch the video as well as look at the photos.

Watch museum (part 2)

 

The lobby of the museum had lots of modern Swiss watches on display.

Watch museum

We visited the Musée International d'Horlogerie, the watch making museum, in La Chaux-de-Fonds today. This was
part of a temporary exhibit about the American clock making industry in the late 19th century. Most American
timepieces were made of wood back then.

Museums

In addition to the Hungarian National Gallery, we also visited the Hungarian National Museum on Saturday and the
House of Terror (pictured above) on Friday, an excellent museum detailing the disturbing history of the Hungarian Arrow
Cross Party (Nazis), and their successors, two communist terror organizations, from the late 1930s through the mid-1950s.