Dear grammarians, You must have heard about the places to visit when traveling to Beijing, but, on this entry, we will reveal some of the less known -but not less interesting- places of this city. In spite of the non-stop coming and going of the inhabitants and tourists in Beijing, you will get find some peace and quietness around some of the places that we recommend. As you know, Beijing city is located in the north of the People’s Republic…
Dear grammarians: For today’s post, we have picked the South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han, who began to publish his books some years ago. However, we have just recently come across him thanks to his speech at the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) a few days ago. We were wondering why this gentleman, born in Seoul in 1959, has received this much attention lately, and this is what we found out. Biography Byung-Chul Han studied metallurgy in Korea before he…
Dear grammarians, Today we will deal with a purely practical subject that we always need to take into account when planning any trip: transportation within our destination. In particular, on this entry we will comprehensively describe transportation possibilities in the capital of the United Kingdom –London. For reasons that we will explain later, the underground will become your main means of transport, although there are other interesting means of transport for travellers. Likewise, Londoners and residents in London also use…
