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GA KingsX London
On Friday evening we went for dinner in GA KingsX near Kings’s Cross station to celebrate the end of the exams, passing all of them. We picked this place because we were picking up the rest of the family arriving with the Eurostar later that evening. We picked this bar/club also because it looked classy […]
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London Science Museum
Whenever I visit a city I have a look if there are any interesting science museums. In London we planned to go to the Natural History museum but during on trip in the underground we saw an advertisement for the Science Museum and the temporary exhibition of ZimingZhong, mainly British clockworks given to the Chinese […]
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Cichetti Knightsbridge
After visiting the Science Museum in London we needed a place for lunch. In the direct neighbourhood of the the museum all places were completely packed. So much so that people were eating outside even though it was not exactly warm. We opted to take a little walk in the direction of Knightsbridge and try […]
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PerfectDraft Stella Unfiltered Lager
After the first keg of standard Stella I connected the unfiltered version. I expected much of the unfiltered Stella but compared to standard Stella I found little added taste. Not that it was bad, on the contrary but the standard Stella already had quite a lot of taste and the unfiltered one didn’t add much […]
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Wagamama St Paul’s
On our first day in London we were looking for a place for a late lunch and ended up in Wagamama St Paul’s. We had heard about the chain but had never been to one. This is Japanese fast food with quality as can be expected from a fastfood restaurant. Although not bad the food […]
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London Marriott Maida Vale
We spent a long weekend in London and staid at the London Marriott Maida Vale. We found this hotel looking for reasonably prices options in London. It is a bit outside the center and less expensive. Also, we could get a family room with 2 double beds which also reduced the price compared to places […]
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American Prometheus. The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird, Martin Sherwin (ISBN 9780375726262, Vintage Books)
The pulitzer prize winning biography of Robert Oppenheimer. The one on which the Oppenheimer movie from 2023 is based. I read the book after seeing the movie. The main reason being I didn’t have the book yet and it took some time before it got delivered. Instead I read the biography by Pais first before […]
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Oppenheimer
After having read the Oppenheimer biography from Abraham Pais I felt sufficiently prepared to go and watch the movie. I went to see it with my wife in a week that both kids were not at home. It was a bit of a last minute decision during an evening in the week. Arriving at the […]
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J. Robert Oppenheimer. A Life, Abraham Pais (ISBN 9780195327120, Oxford University Press)
With the Oppenheimer movie coming out I decided to read a biography first. I didn’t have the one from Kai Bird on which the movie is based (has been rectified in the mean time) but I did have 3 other books on Oppenheimer patiently lying in the library waiting to be read. After googling a […]
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A Good Pummeling
‘The wicked angel of empiricism continues to pummel me.‘― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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