I really loved having a prolonged weekend in Vienna in June 2024. There is such a nice variety of interesting places, great food and culture. The city also impressively well survived the two World Wars, so that the conservation of…
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I really loved having a prolonged weekend in Vienna in June 2024. There is such a nice variety of interesting places, great food and culture. The city also impressively well survived the two World Wars, so that the conservation of…
The Mediterranen island Malta is becoming a more and more popular tourist destination. My wife and I had a brief visit in 2022. One of the places we went to is Spinola Bay, which is regarded to be one of…
The flora of the Faroe Islands is rather unique and special. A nice way to explore it is the Faroese National Botanical Garden (or Plantufrøðiligur urtagarður in local language). In my Pictured Story, I take you on a visit. My…
4,354 meters long – the Dajti Ekspres is (by its own marketing) the longest cable car in the Balkan region. During my visit in December 2022 to Tirana, I had a trip up to the “backyard mountain” of the Albanian…
The Wiener Zentralfriedhof (Vienna Central Cemetery) is the one of the largest cemeteries in Europe. With over 300,000 graves and three million corpses, there are more dead people in these place than inhabitants in the Austrian capital. However, there are several reasons…
A visit to Japan would just not be complete without digging into the religion and visiting some temples and shrines. One of the most famous of these places in Tokyo is the Meiji Shrine. I take you there in my Pictured…
I feel that the more the Strip or Las Vegas Boulevard area is growing as a massive, but also expansive entertainment temple, the more Las Vegas Downtown is getting some sort of renaissance. People who just want to have basic entertainment, good…
I rather frequently travel to Dublin for business reasons. However, the Weird Al Yankovic Tour 2023 gave me a rather rare opportunity to have some time to explore the Irish capital. A place I happened to run into is the…