Your smart stop of travel related fun in 5 minutes
Wonderful Venice. Shiny flourishing center of the nautical world in earlier centuries then down in the dumps after Vasco da Gama found a sea route to India. Still you can only admire its characteristics including water all over the place, the century old architecture, the Carnival, the Film Festival, all the constant vibe and of course the absence of cars which forces you to use your lower limbs or one of them Gondolas.
Continue reading “Fetid town?”
I’m gonna level with you, I never experienced the amount of fear anywhere else than in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter. Even the word gothic sends shivers down my spine. You see I fear of the dark since my childhood. Not darkness itself but all the horrid creatures I can’t see – those that are obviously not there. Don’t ask me why, I wandered in Barcelona late at night. Boy, was I scared! All the streets are gloomy and spooky, squares are empty and narrow…
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We’ve taken the liberty to find out a bit more about our close and remote surroundings. Stereotypes will be broken and facts overcome presumptions. Every now and then we choose and present a country. Let’s start with ours. Enjoy!
Continue reading “Stereotypes about Countries – Hungary”
When I was in Paris paying a visit to Square du Vert-Galant late at night I had the strangest vision. At the very end of the island I saw the ghost of a woman with her left foot in the water throwing what seemed tiny pieces of paper into it. Those sorrowful eyes and long-drawn movements had me wondering what on earth she was doing there so I approached her slowly but firmly. I delicately asked if I could sit down next to her and to tell me what the problem was.
Continue reading “Peak of sorrow”
