Like any self-respecting travel writer, there’s nothing I like better than visiting different countries, meeting new people, learning new languages, eating different foods, listening to a variety of music, or any new thing that takes me out of my comfort ...
The Parisian winter morning was cold and gray, but inside the metro train, I could barely notice it. The PA announced the end of the line,Porte de Clignancourt. This was it, the last stop on Line 4 was my destination. ...
To be honest, I do not remember how the hell I ended up there. Before arriving in Berlin for the fourth time, I didn’t even know there was a museum dedicated to the defunct German Democratic Republic; little did I ...
Like any other modern urban dweller would do, I spend a fair amount of time on the metro system, either sprinting on a train or walking through the maze-like corridors in order to get from one place to the other. ...
The quaint village of Tongli dates back to the Tang Dynasty (618 -907 AD) and it became a city during the Song Dynasty. Currently, Tongli’s population adds up to some 35,000 inhabitants. Located some 18km from the city of Suzhou, ...
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, ...
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, ...
Nicolae Ceausescu is the name of the man who ruled Romania with an iron fist from 1967 until his execution in 1989. A known megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur, this authoritarian dictator is known, among other (mostly horrendous) things, for ...
It’s one of the most emblematic buildings in Dubai. It is not particularly famous for its modernity or even its looks (it was built in 1978), but this 149 meters high tower has something special about it. It stands there, ...
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 ...
Vibrant, crowded, fast-paced and organized-yet-chaotic are some of the first descriptions that come to my mind when I remember Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing. Call me a misanthrope, but I’m the kind of person to hate crowds. The mere thought of Christmas ...
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 ...
