After 5 years, I was again in Portugal. Lisbon has been checked and explored quite well, so I decided to explore a bit more! I had a hotel in Oeiras so my friend who lives in Lisbon rented a car and we started a journey towards the north of the country. Santarém We visited Santarem at first. Just a small half an tour stop. As … Continue reading Coimbra & Santarem, Portugal
Sintra is a popular tourist attraction in Portugal due to its remarkable 19th century Romantic architecture and breath-taking landscapes. I learned Lord George Gordon Byron visited the place and amazed. And here is where he liked to have a snack: But we enjoyed this little and narrow streets, stairs and old stone houses! The Palace Quinta de Regaleira is romantic palace and chapel, and a luxurious park that … Continue reading Sintra & Cabo da Rocka, Portugal
Hop on, hop off with a friend by Thalys train. From lovely Brussels to the city in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area. Upon the arrival we realized there are this iconic statues of Dusseldorf citizens everywhere: We discovered pretty soon why this city is all in business and industry, with the buildings like this: Anyhow, we continued towards the city center. The reformator’s church was somehow interesting … Continue reading Düsseldorf, Germany
So Milica called after a very long and hard day at work: Would you like to fly with me to Bordeaux for the weekend? – Is Friday included? -Yes it is, she said. -Hm, I can’t risk the day off at work, it is too soon. I just got back from Christmas holidays. 5 mins later I am texting my friend: You know what? Life … Continue reading Bordeaux, France 🍷🍷
The city that lives as a huge tourist site!! I know there is much more then this of Barcelona, but being there twice, always taken out to places from my local friends – it still gets me this feeling of huge tourist concentration. It is also famous by lots of pick pockets – the unusual ones with ideas of stealing you that would amaze you … Continue reading Barcelona, Catalunya, España
Great, big, diplomatic, historic, curteous, quite and calm Warsaw. But then comes the night and you start with vodka and end up calling your ex in some Budda club at 2 am. It all started by my friend’s invitation to Warsaw. I arrived around 22:00 and first thing I saw was the Palace of Culture and Science. Stalin’s gift to the Poles and the building where … Continue reading Warsaw, Poland
When visiting Rome, inevitable to visit is the Vatican city. Having in mind my grandfather who visited Rome and Vatican in 1970’s, he was always telling me stories about this place. I was walking down the Via Leone IV thinking of him, reminding myself about the way he was telling his stories – I was giggling . He never managed to re-visit with me although … Continue reading Vatican city
From Tenerife I took the massive speed boat and went to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. On the map it looks like this: And the boat that I took looked like this: It is actually quite nice inside, with the TV’s and the bar. The only thing I didn’t get and what I expected is to go out on the deck of the boat. But … Continue reading 🌞 Canary island 🌞
Tenerife is a volcanic island belonging to Canary Islands, which are part of Spain. It used be portugueese, then english, but in the end Pope Alexander VI took the line and made them spanish spanish (further historical explanation in this article). 🙂 Tenerife is the largest island of the Canary Islands archipelago, but also is the largest and most populous island of Macaronesia – a collection of four archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast … Continue reading Tenerife – climbing the volcano
Never have I visited the country that is in a war… Although my plan to visit Ukraine – both Lavov and Kiev was some 8 years ago, initially. I was supposed to be there on Monday afternoon for meetings. But the traveler and history nerd in me couldn’t agree with that. So I got my Travel Papers and the ticket for Saturday morning. I woke … Continue reading Kiev, Ukraine
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