Random photos from our trip abroad. Four examples of crazy city life.
First: here’s a quote from the wall of a bar we were in (called The Green Carnation). It’s from Oscar Wilde, it says, “Anyone who lives within their means suffer from a lack of imagination.”

Here’s the most fascinating thing we saw on [...]

Here’s me getting my first taste of Turkish Delight

More interesting photos, after the break.

In case you’ve never been to Belgium, here are some photos of Brussels (well, part of it).
The neatest thing in Brussels: The Atomium!

More, after the jump.

From a reader.
Really, you gotta take a look.
I’m in Texas on business and picked up the local real estate magazine last night at dinner. I discovered a builder in Fort Worth that specializes in building what look like castles to me. Here’s a virtual tour of one of his “creations”:
Fort Worth [...]

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A compromise reached between City Hall and developers of a planned 299-foot-tall residential tower in Chinatown will reduce the height by 34 feet, but means elimination of the revered Dainty Dot building on the site …
… The compromise, described last night to the Boston Design Review Commission, includes reducing [...]

A developer wants to build a 26-story condo building at the corners of Essex Street and the Surface Road, where Chinatown meets the financial district.
From today’s Globe:
Nothing captures the conflicts in Chinatown today better than the saga of the old Dainty Dot Hosiery building at 120 Kingston St.
It’s the one that, depending on perspective, [...]