On my way back home from Geneva I stopped by my favorite east-coast stopover – at Dee’s ! :D
So it was another excuse to have some great time, eat delicious food (coconut shrimp, I’ll never forget you!!) and …even do some shopping! (yes, yes, it’s Dee hiding behind the shopping bags – a one in a lifetime sight delivered by Tacto, the stealth photographer of wild life on the East Coast).
You know sometimes you don’t see the things that are under your nose unless you pay attention? Well, I certainly never saw Spiderman on Genevan walls before… but here he is!!!
What would be Switzerland .. without the amazing chocolate??? :D
I found this amazing “chocolaterie” and the ladies inside were kind enough to let me take some tasty pictures (and no, I am not telling you how much money I actually spent at the place before that..)
And of course they also had those typical ribbon-decorated Easter eggs filled with chocolate… yum...
Today I paid a visit to one of the two major manga comic shops here. I wish I could locate a purely manga store like this somewhere in San Francisco – they have a larger manga collection than any other book store or chain by far and I am always amazed at the number of titles I have never heard of before and also amused by the different cover designs of the french versions as compared to what we see in the US (wait.. this looks familiar.. what?? Vampire Knight??! But this cover…. XD).
Plus, I really like the way they organized their space – aside from the thousands of titles arranged by alphabetical order on the shelves they have a good hundred of new issues and titles on display on two huge tables in the middle of the room which is really smart since one can just scope the whole table and pick up the title by cover art and/or name depending on one’s tastes - great sales technique if you ask me (proof here with an anime girl reading one of the volumes in the middle!)
I also did a small search for OEL titles and sure enough, there were the 3 vol of “The Dreaming” french version by Queenie Chan right here on the shelf! You go, Queenie! :D
Curiously enough though, I was unable to find any other OEL titles…mystery… am probably going to ask the owner about this the next time I go back. Next target – the big bookstore chains’ manga section! *stealth ninja <.<*
Hi to all, Tacto here! Welcome to the AHC blog! It took us some time but we are finally up and running!
AHC site is still in its baby period and will be growing and learning how to speak steadily in the next months with regular blogs about manga, making comics, art, friends and life in general as well as a bunch of cool art and some new manga stories - so come back often ^__^
And to start this off, here are some news from Switzerland (not to confuse with Sweden!..) where I am staying for a week.
Today I took a walk in the city of Geneva, currently under the blooming sakuras attack!
