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A few photos from Berlin

Alex — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:24:08 +0000

With the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall last week, we thought it would be a good time to share a few of the photos we took earlier in the year when we visited Berlin.

Tapxe.com visits the 2009 Tour de France

Alex — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:10:28 +0000

300 meters from the finish in Besancon! can you find Lance?

Finish of 2009 TDF Stage 14

Tapxe.com visits the Vitra Design Museum

Alex — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:33:06 +0000

Today we visited the Vitra Design Museum in nearby Weil am Rhein.

Through May 3rd the museum has an exhibition on George Nelson, the designer who’s designs the Vitra company has been manufacturing for decades. While we only went to the Nelson exhibition the museum also offers a guided architectural tour of the campus where you can learn about museum building designed by Frank Gehry as well as the other buildings on campus such as the firestation by Zaha Hadid. We’re saving the tour for a day when the weather is nicer.

What did we like best about the exhibition? When sitting down to watch one of Nelson’s movies you get to sit (or more accurately lounge) in one of Nelson’s own designs – the Coconut Chair.

We’re continuously amazed at both the number and the quality of the museums in the Basel area and are happy to add Vitra Design to our list of museums to revisit.

Looking for Kaffee in Lörrach? Go to Arabica.

Alex — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:18:48 +0000

Arabica Kaffee und Lebensart in downtown Lörrach has the best coffee (and chocolate selection) in town. While we still go to Starbucks in Basel to get our caffeine fixes with giant cups of coffee to go – when we’re in Lörrach there is nothing better on a Saturday morning than stopping at Arabica for a cappuccino or simply the tageskaffee, and maybe even buying some chocolate.

Welcome back to Tapxe.com

Alex — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:05:22 +0000

Tapxe.com has been on hiatus for a few months as I started a new job. Now that we’ve been in Lörrach for 5 months and are a bit more settled (and the job is going well!) it’s time to start posting again. To kick things off here is a panorama of Klein Basel as taken from the Basel Munster and stitched together using AutoStitch.