Since it is such a long way into town, why not take the express–err, ekspres–train?

We showed you a teaser before…here is the rest!

Some more love for Dubai’s Metro system…

If you don’t have a special someone to go up that escalator with, you can always depend on man’s best friend…

This sign has “April Fool’s” written all over it, well, to us anyway.

A Boston intellectual

We spend a lot of time in this space talking about the differences between the East Coast and the West Coast, which are very different culturally in so many ways. However, by grouping the East Coast together as one, that’s not to say that Miami is the same as DC is the same as New York is the same as Boston. So in an effort to begin to shed some light on the differences found within the East Coast, we wanted to share with you a quote from none other than Mark Twain, when writing a memoir about Boston:

In New York they ask “how much money does he have?” In Philadelphia, they ask, “who were his parents?” In Boston they ask, “how much does he know?”

Boston indeed boasts a highly intellectual culture, as renowned universities are an integral part of the city’s fabric. Besides Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which are known around the world, 54 other universities call the city home.

The perfect irony for April Fool’s Day…

A popular Cambridge haunt

Harvard’s hallowed halls

Browsing a book sale downtown

Last time we were in Melbourne, we saw a series of Queensland Rail signs that jumped out at us. There is no way they could have been intentional–you’ll see why in a minute–so we did some research to find the original signs as they were intended that had been altered.

Here is the first in our series of Queensland Rail parodies, straight from the train platforms of greater Melbourne…

As we saw it:

As it was intended:

Now that Lent is over and Catholics can eat meat again, time to feast on some scrumptious burger steak!