The number of families with small children walking towards the museum should have been a warning. If you hate children, Sunday is definitely not the best day to visit a place with dinosaur skeletons and stuffed animals. The Museum für Naturkunde, also known as Naturkundemuseum, was founded in 1810 and it’s one of the oldest scientific institutions in Europe. It ...
Southern Belgium boasts an attractive blend of cultures, combining both the Gallic and Germanic characters and ways of life. In many aspects, Wallonia is a very small region that seems to contain, at the same time, many small countries with fascinating history and tasty cuisine. Where art and gorgeous architecture serve as a backdrop for romantic walks along the Meuse ...
We tend to think about airlines as a relatively new industry. However, scheduled air transport services for passengers and cargo have been around since the beginning of the 20th century. Actually, the first commercial passenger airline dates back to 1913, when a scheduled service between Tampa and St Petersburg operated by the St Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line opened. This feat, that ...
Barcelona is a city with hundreds of things to do. There’s impresive architecture, beautiful parks, lots of shopping streets full of stores that can satisfy both bargain hunters and high end fashionistas and the charm that you find in the Old Gothic Quarter is hard to find anywhere else in Europe. But if there is a component that makes Barcelona ...
As a fairly frequent traveler, one of my biggest frustrations when planning a trip is when the ticket fares that I have been watching for weeks suddenly change. If I’m lucky, the final ticket price would go up by a few euros, so the damage is relativelly small. However, there have been a few times when the ticket price change ...
The cold I had caught upon arriving in Ireland was killing me. While in Barcelona the early October temperatures were around thirty degrees, in the Irish capital it seemed fall had arrived, pushing down down the mercury below ten degrees. I was in Ireland attending a travel bloggers conference, TBEX Europe, but I was also eager to see the city ...
The barking became clearer, louder, closer. I was afraid to look back, to have to face one of my deepest, most child-like fears. There were four, maybe five. When I first walked in I saw some of them. Sad eyes, low tail and that limping implying that maybe they’d been hit by a car. Actually I remember noticing a particular ...
A certain aura of timeless elegance surrounds Bled. It is an aristocratic environment similar to that found in other spa cities such as Baden, Bath or San Sebastian, places that awoke to tourism long before Benidorm opened its first bar. And like Baden, Spa or Bath, it was thermo-medicinal travel that made Bled popular as a holiday destination back in ...
A new creative hub is developing in South London. Poor, dangerous and dilapidated. For decades, Brixton was a place where most Londoners wouldn’t be caught dead. This popular Southwestern district is famous, or should we say infamous, for being the backdrop of multiple episodes of racial tension that reached a high point with the Brixton Riots in 1981. But things ...
Paris is one of those places that you could never get enough of, no matter how many times you visit.The City of Light is as changing and dizzying as it’s eternal and immutable. Time here seems to pass differently. For this reason, a while ago I decided to drop by the French capital for the third time. I must admit ...