Professional stargazing: The European Southern Observatory, short ESO is a collaboration of multiple European countries to gather astronomic forces on the Southern hemisphere. Even though the big telescope sites are located in Chile, the head operations are in Garching, a Northern…
A museum with an amazing collection of luxury and top-class racing cars, driven for the cause of charity. This is about the mission of the Marconi Automotive Museum & Foundation for Kids. Dick Marconi donated his amazing car collection with…
Abu Dhabi Khalifa Park is one of those hidden gems which you typically don’t find in travel guides (or at least only in the very good ones). The park is a popular recreation place for the locals in the U.A.E.…
The story why I felt I had to visit the Bergisches Museum für Bergbau, Handwerk und Handel – the Bergisches Museum for Mining, Craft & Trade, is quite a funny one. In my review posting about Schloss Burg in Solingen,…
Even though I am not a beer drinker, I made a brewery tour during my last stay in the Salzburg region. One of the key brewers of the Austrian border town is Stiegl, who are truly rich in tradition: the…
Even though the Netherlands capitulated against Germany just after a few days under attack during World War II, they have a fascinating history of resisting against the German Nazi occupation. One of the places which is reminding of the behavior…
There are so many interesting places in Hamburg, which are still on my bucket list. Of course, the Northern German city is having some really big tourist destinations like the Elbe Philharmonic Hall. More than that, though, there are a…
While the Arabian word Etihad for many people first of all stands for a major airline based in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, the word in fact means “unity”, “union” or also “friendship”. The Etihad Museum in Dubai is…