Travels Around the World
With its moonlike red, brown and black rocks, the volcanic landscape around Racoş is certainly impressive and is well-worth the short detour from the usual Transylvanian tourist circuit…
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If you are in Gdansk and want to go on a day trip out of the city, going to Hel and back again by train and ferry makes for a fun journey. Apart from its funny name, the Hel peninsula…
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My visit to the Nubian village on Elephantine Island was an unexpected delight. I absolutely loved the peaceful, serene atmosphere of the Nubian village and the interesting insights into Nubian culture…
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Located on the subtropical shores of the Black Sea, Batumi is an amazingly beautiful and lively seaside destination which will easily please a wide variety of travellers looking for some summer fun…
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The church of Homorod (Hamruden) might be one of the lesser-known Saxon fortified churches in Transylvania, but it certainly does have some unique aspects…
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The Aswan High Dam is certainly an impressive engineering feat and you can get a good grasp of the sheer size of the dam and the artificial reservoir of Lake Nasser if you visit it…
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Prague’s main railway station – called Praha Hlavní Nádraží in Czech and often abbreviated as Praha hl.n on train timetables – has to be one of the world’s prettiest stations…
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Although Feldkirch’s ‘altstadt’ (old town centre) is pretty small in size, it certainly is picturesque with its cobblestoned streets and pastel-coloured medieval buildings…
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I absolutely loved my visit to Philae and the Temple of Isis, which aesthetically is one of the most beautiful of all Egyptian temples. A big part of this is thanks to the scenic setting of Philae on an island in the Nile…
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My second trip to Slatina-Timiș started off smooth but ended up being quite an adventure thanks to a train accident, subsequent delay and some heavy vaccine side effects kicking in…
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