Tag: Travel

Lillehammer also had the coolest Olympic medals (granite + metal)

The 1994 Lillehammer winter games had the best torch

Pictograms from various Olympiads. First introduced for the 1964 Tokyo games, they’ve been a staple of Olympic design ever since. They have a lot in common with App icon design. (The Olympic Museum, Lausanne)

Beautiful snake at Aquatis in Lausanne yesterday.

Collecting latex from a rubber tree, Museu do Seringal, Manaus

10 kg rubber pellet (bounces better than a basket ball!) and some tools for tapping rubber.

Sunset over the Rio Negro, Manaus

View from above the forest canopy, Manaus

Vitória Régia lily, the world’s largest water lily, Manaus

Angelim pedra tree, Manaus