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Made in England Uncensored in Bonn
Peter Dench, Made in England, in Bonn - Information
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Bonn City Air Quality and Transport Improvement Plans. March 2018 summary for activists.
Bonn City has a problem. No, not the Beethoven Hall catastrophe. No, not the debt problem. No, not the swimming pool plan. I’m talking about the other one, the one that is seriously impacting health and quality of life. Air pollution levels have risen above permitted norms. Public transport quality appears to be dropping. Traffic levels are too high. The ongoing discussion involves diesel cars, electric transport, free public transport, cycle infrastructure, parking and even ski-resort style cable-car lifts. It’s a complex mix of projects and difficult to follow. Thanks to a recent statement from the City of Bonn, however, there’s a concise summary of actions available. This bullet-point list…
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Rhein Cruise and Ship Tracking. Hi Mum!
A Rhein cruise ferry, M.S. Emily Bronte of Riviera Travel, came through Bonn this morning and thanks to modern technology I timed a meeting and caught a glimpse of her. My Mum that is! Tracking a wonderful cruise ship. M.S. Emily Bronte. There are about 1000 ships on the Rhein at any one time. As I look at a live tracking map there are 84 passenger ships between Koblenz and Düsseldorf, one of the most popular sections of the Rhein. Last night I met one of those ships as it docked in Koblenz. The M.S. Emily Bronte, launched this year, has 88 cabins and is impressively fitted. Cruise ferries…
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Digital Hub Bonn. Coworking space opens 20th Feb. What next?
Bonn Hub. Incubator. Startup center. Coworking space. Food lab? The last time I wrote about Bonn Hub, aka Digital Hub Bonn, it was July 2016 and just days after they had secured access to 3 million Euros of funding. The plan back then was bold and finally, 7 months later, Bonn Hub will have an opening party. Unfortunately the real-world Bonn Hub isn’t quite like the picture that was painted back then. To be fair, finding a location in Bonn must be incredibly difficult at the moment as Bonn enters into a multi-year program of re-development. All the space in front of the main station has been vacated for a…
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Chippy in Bonn, at the Upper Crust. Pasty-licious!
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Mattheius and Godesburg restaurant projects.
Over the summer months I was working (for my company, HiBlue) to create videos for a few clients in the restaurant and event sector around Bonn. Matthieu’s restaurant in the Sudstadt is a fine place with a great outdoor seating area for the summer and a very convivial dining room indoors for the cooler months. Restaurant Godesburg, on the other hand is a big, impressive location that can host weddings and corporate events. The location, stunning. Here’s some of the photography we did for Matthieu’s. Capturing the ‘gemutlichkeit’ (warm welcoming feeling) in the restaurant was important despite it being 30 degrees outdoors when we were there. Today it’s 10 degrees…
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Bonn Hub – A startup center for international Bonn. Interview and information.
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Venusberg. Urban Gondola and E-bikes as traffic solutions.
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Images of Bonn
I’ve been living in Bonn for 13 years and it’s about bloody time I started writing about this wonderful city. Technically this Bonn-focused website is live, but it needs a lot more work before you will bookmark it. My starting point was to curate the best of my photographs of Bonn and to add them to a gallery. I’ve now done that..and my first Bonn photo-tour is ready. 50+ photos are now available in the gallery, and you can see them here. Share, and share again because Bonn is a wonderful city and the world needs to know about it. Images of Bonn.
