This city in your 30’s hits different. I have decided to spend one weekend again in this city, focusing on Amsterdam’s history and politics from 16th century and onwards, when Amsterdam experienced a period of growth during the late 16th century, becoming a major trading hub for goods such as spices and textiles. This growth hit the stone to the liberalism as we know today. … Continue reading Amsterdam (̅_̅_̅(̅(̅_̅_̅_̅_̅_̅̅()ڪ
Finishing our Route de Champagne, my friend Petra and I spent the entire day exploring Reims, a city in the Grand Est region of France. It was a hot sunday but worth of evey walk through the city. We ate and admired the local history and culture. The city was, of course, founded by the Gauls, (Asterix and Obelix) 🙂 and became a major city during … Continue reading Reims – where the French kings were crowned
From the Route de Chimay in Belgium, we continued towards France to Route de Champagne. It is the region in the north-western part of France with the main cities of Reims and Epernay – as the center of the champagne agriculture. We were driving through hidden villages of north – western France, admiring the green landscape mostly covered with vineyards and blue sky under which many cows … Continue reading Route de Champagne
My friend and I decided to go on great Chimay tour for a grand weekend in Belgium. We sat in her car (hot as it was 34 degrees outside) and drove south of Brussels through Ardennes and Wallonie. Our first stop was a brewery Beers and Cheeses of Chimay. We tasted samples of beers and decided to continue further. We were driving to many pitoresque small belgian … Continue reading Route de Chimay
My very good friend and chilean housemate from Spain was getting marry in her hometown of Calpe, close to Alicante. It was a great opportunity to reunite us all met once in Chile, living la vida loca of 2010. The region is called Costa Blanca and the city of Alicante is nearby Valencia. Alicante is one of Spain’s most beautiful cities and a hotspot destination for city … Continue reading Alicante, Spain
Plovdiv is the 6th oldest living city in the world and it is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia dating back to neotlithic settlements 6000 BCE. When Philip II of Macedon, (after which the city was named Philippoppolis) father of Alexander Great conquered it in the 4th century BC, and later came numbers of civilisations like Persians, Greeks, Celts, Romans, Goths, Huns, Bulgarians, Slav-Vikings, Crusaders and … Continue reading Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Thessaloniki is Greece’s Hippest City! It has some of the most beautiful beaches and has some of the finest hotels and best restaurants in northern Greece. The region is called Central Macedonia, claiming the right to posess the FYR of Macedonia (calling it just the Northern Macedonian region) as it use to be entire ly greek region and not recognizing it today as a state. Following this, … Continue reading Thεsαlonikki, Pεllα αnd Chαlkidonα, Grεεcε
Throughout my life I am constantly reading about the history of women, their position in society, and the struggle for power. The more I read about them as the background rulers in a particularly male world, the more inspiration I find, the more I identify myself. The last in the series (from the Book of Wars of the Cousins, ie War of the Roses) is … Continue reading The Constant Princess
Last year I went to see football match Croatia vs Portugal in quarter finals at Euro 2016 in Lens, France. Small city on the north – east of France, close to Lille. The city is not so big at all, but it became famous as the French built the football stadium which can accommodate more fans than the city holds the inhabitants. 🙂 Crazy, right? … Continue reading Lens, France and EURO 2016
What I am mostly surprised of this region of Belgium, is its nature. The heavily forested Ardennes massif occupies the southeast of the Walloon region. Mostly cliffs, forests, river Meuse and many streams. The legend said Hitler will never manage to break through the Ardennes and take over Belgium and later Netherlands. Happens to be the guy invented tenks. Anyhow, this topographic peculiarity gave the … Continue reading Wallonia: Liege, Mons, Namur, Dinant – down the Meuse river valley
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