Europe Travel Blogs - Page 12

in the land of the country which is called 'greece' today, the last 6000 years some of the most imortant civilisations of  Mediterranian, flourished & died. the 1st was the Cycladic, placed in the area of Cyclades (santorini, naxos, paros, myconos, etc) at about 4000 bc.  the 2nd…

As is my unfortunate normal habit, I was up and about much earlier than intended on Saturday morning.  Being the adventurous traveler that I am, I decided to go on a Lion safari through the wild, untamed heart of Leeuwarden (Leeuw means Lion in Dutch). I started in front of my hotel, the very…

  Whoo! Tomorrow is the day of leaving! I just can't wait. Ok ok, I have to admit, I'm a bit nervous but I'm sure when Im landed in Abu Dhabi it's gone! Today I've packed my luggage. It is ok for me, not too bad!  just 1 suitcase, I guess it's way to much but ok.. and a handluggag…

took the night bus yesterday from trafalgar square to swiss cottage, where im staying (good match, hm?)relaxed my eyes and when i opened them again i was still on the bus in some neighbourhood that looked strange to me. checked with the driver to find out that swiss cottage was some 20 minutes ago.…

“Nothing is simpler than to lose oneself in Venice and nothing is more fun than to be in this labirinth without a Minotaur, as a Theseus without an Ariadne's thread.". On your Venice trip you will discover that Venice itself is the main attraction. 1. The venetians were well known for their love…

I promised some of you more photos of my hometown. I didn't get to take as many as I would have wanted but there they are!!! My friend and I were driving around the city for a while trying to get good pictures of things but the weather was just not working with us. Once we found a nice spot there w…

Friday 18 April That day I had a great company with Alex, Willem, Wendy, Rowena, Johan and Melissa. We had so much fun in the train. We took pictures, chatting, making jokes. The shit thing was, we weren't allow to smoke in the Bistro and it was already a year ago Der Deutsche Bahn illega…

The formation of the square was initiated in the late 1960s concurrently with the construction of the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov railroad. Now, with the majestic buildings, fountains, flower-beds gladdening our eyes, we can hardly believe that once there was a permanently wet swamp (the so-called…

Today it’s All Saint’s Day in the (Roman) Catholic Church. That means today Poles make a massive cemetery trips in order to fulfill the tradition  of lighting candles and visiting the graves of deceased relatives. As Halloween has it’s roots in celtic „Samhain”, Slavic …

Finally its my time for going somewhere again! After 5months since my last trip outside of the country i managed to put in two weeks of traveling bliss again. For this blog i would try the more personal approach as its seems like that is more enjoyable than just reviews. My Philippines blog got aro…

A few weeks ago I was talking with Gejah about not having a meet-up in May. She said then, why not having a meet-up in Brussel with a few TB's on may 9th? Because then is Mandy coming back from New Zealand and it will be her 20th birthday. But it must absolute be a secret for Mandy. So not creating…

I was supposed to start the next day very early in the morning or better said - in the night at 2 o'clock. In the evening i was going to gas station and i 'felt' that something wrong was with my car. I got off, had look at the wheels, but everything seemed to be ok.When i was back home - like 22.00…

will edit later, these pics you see are of the fortress that overlooks the fjord of oslo and the waterfront area next to the fortress. hoping to say more tomorrow.

I am now at CDG, and I will be here for the next 6 hours as I wait for my connecting flight to Heathrow. I wandered aimlessly around, marvelling at the signature shops around, and buying   ‘Paris ‘ souvenirs’ for my family.

During our morning bus city tour, we visited several different areas of Helsinki, stopped at the Senate Square with the green domed Helsinki Cathedral atop the steps from the square. I remembered a picture of this cathedral and steps on an album cover of the Leningrad Cowboys. The Olympic…