One of the things that Warsaw and Copenhagen have in common is having a mermaid statue as a symbol of the city. The main difference though, is that the Polish version is 200 miles away from the nearest coastline, so she has to make do with swimming in a little fountain located on the Rynek Starego Miasta Square, right in ...
For some reason, out of all the cool places I was going to visit during my trip to Castilla y León in central Spain, Segovia was one of the places I was excited about the most. You could say that Segovia has three must-see monuments; the Roman Aqueduct, the Cathedral and its famous castle, known as el Alcázar de Segovia. ...
I guess you could say I visited Skopje almost by accident, after crossing most of continental Greece by train and discovering in Thessaloniki that there was a direct train that stopped in the Macedonian capital on its way to Belgrade and costed around €12. My original plans included a visit to Meteora, however, in order to get there I would ...
A few months ago, before I even considered visiting Naples, I read somewhere that if Naples wan’t the least European city in Europe, at least it was the least Italian in Italy. I can totally understand now where that comment was coming from. Naples is, without a doubt, a place like no other. Dirty, noisy, decadent and not very safe, ...
Somebody once said that the deepest conversations between friends take place in total silence, and Lisbon is a true expert in silence. The portuguese tranqüilidade is probably one of the traits that differentiate Portuguese from their neighbors to the east. Lisbon is a city to experience slowly. Here, the streets seem to be frozen in time, whispering soft lamentations to ...
Goethe described Prague as “the most precious of the jewels in the crown of cities”. I can assure you I don’t intend to disagree with the German poet. I fell in love Prague the first time I saw a picture of the Charles Bridge, with the dark statues covered by the fog of the Vltava and the Gothic steeples rising ...