Europe Travel Blogs - Page 3

Picknick (Dutch spelling) in the Park was organised today for the very first time in Meppel. It is a cultural happening with live music, theater and circus. There were several small stages and tents along the banks of the river "De Reest". Of course there was food and drinks availabl…

The venture is off to a miserable start.  We were supposed to leave Wilmington around 3PM this afternoon to hook up with a red eye that delivers us to Amsterdam 8:35 Saturday morning.  Even though it is a beautiful day in North Carolina, there are t-storms in Philly and ground stops c…

Just as in the last seven years, the same fabulous bunch of friends set course for the slopes. Yes, it is that time again. Our yearly skiing extravaganza is about to commence. Each year we drive to our destination, and this year is no exception. However, as we get older we no longer feel the need (…

about to leave on a flight to Bodrum. Snowy/rain in istanbul yesterday and snowing right now. cold. not much to do but sit around insıde. won in cards yesterday making my comeback, sorry phil!

I went pass Anne Franks 'House when I went to Amsterdam 10 years ago because the lines were just so long. But this time around I am determined to go in - if the lines are not too long. I mean some people claim Anne Franks Diary is just a big hoax so maybe it is not worth going? Then again the …

Durbuy is situated on two sides of the river 'Ourthe'. In the past, I went kayaking on this river. The many rapids make it an adventurous undertaking. In the last couple of days, a lot of rain has fallen as well as 10cm of snow, all of which has melted. This made the river run even more rapid. …

  My SAS flight took off from Chicago within minutes of its 4:25 p.m. scheduled departure. I followed our progress on the small screen in the seat-back in front of me. We angled northeast along the Lake Michigan shoreline, crossed directly over the Mackinac Bridge, then proceeded over northea…

Our delayed flight delivered us to Berlin after midnight. At that time we were supposed to sleep already. But no. Fortunately we got the S-Bahn train to our hostel with no changes. The ride from Schönefeld to Charlottenburg took one hour. In the way the train stopped in the middle of nowhere, ligh…

My fourth visit to Norway was also my shortest - only 45 hours in total! I must be mad! Well, yeah, I am. But my spring visit to Oslo wasn't a holiday, no, I was here because my mate Jan Henrik was finally marrying his lovely Annelie. Jan Henrik is Norwegian, Annelie is Danish and they met at a fes…

Our last stage guided us from Alsfeld to Erfurt and back home.   After we hadn’t managed to get this so-called fantastic ice-cream in Italy we decided to go to our favourite ice café in Erfurt. Ice café Venezia is one of the best ice-cream selling places I´ve ever been. Fresh ic…

How TravBuddy's look like The Day After! We spend the entire evening in restaurant Zollhof and after that we kept the Weissen Bär Bar open till 5 in the morning. Checkout time at the Backpackers Hostel on Sunday was 11 o'clock sharp!  Don't forget to strip off your bedlinen a…

Early in the morning my grandparents and I started to Sassnitz, where we had planned to hop on the ferry to Trelleborg at 8.15am.   Great! Our summer holiday started off with fabulous weather and heaps of anticipation! My grandparents had been to Scandinavia a few times before and had alre…

Basildon - although for some reason it comes up on the map as near Reading, is in South Essex.  And the only thing that could possible qualify as a tourist attraction?  Bas Vegas. Bas Vegas is officially the Festival Leisure Park, and consists of the following amenities: 1X cinema 1X b…

Geeez, seems we praied to much for the snow to come, and here it comed!!! LOLSnow has 1,5 m in some parts of the country, and in Bucharest all the streets are blocked.Was kinda hard to find even bread, since cars are not able to come .So we just start to go out and play with snow...pretty cool, for…

So, as u may already be aware - i'm a freak about metro maps. That's why i will show u some examples of my 'stuff' ;) There are hundrets of in my collection - i collect the official maps (which are the most worth) but also post cards with maps and mugs or other stuff with metro maps on. If u have s…