In the early 1990’s I visited Malta for the first time, going on a summer vacation with my parents. The Popeye Village was already a key tourist attraction at that time. For the 1980 movie starring Robin Williams as Popeye,…
Heide Park Resort Soltau during Covid-19 conditions
“Why are they allowed to open and we not?” – one of the most frequently asked questions during the Covid-19 lock-down measures, not only in Germany. One German amusement park, the Heide Park Resort in Soltau (which had to stay…
Winter Time at IMG Worlds of Adventure Dubai
140,000 square meters of indoor space and a capacity of 20,000 people per day – the IMG Worlds of Adventure is indeed an impressive indoor theme park at the edge of Dubai city. During the 2020 Christmas season, I visited…
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi
For Italian sports car lovers (and many more people), a visit on Yas Island is one of these things, which you have to do once in your life. For some of them, it may be the Yas Circuit, the Formula…
Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates – the country of superlatives. After Dubai opened the IMG World of Adventures in 2016 and became the world largest indoor theme park, the 2018 opened Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi slightly exceeds the park in size.…
German Fairy Forest (Deutscher Märchenwald) Altenberg
Fairy Forests are a quite traditional attraction. Different stages tell you the stories of fairy tales, typically illustrated by puppets or similar measures. In Altenberg Northwest of Cologne, there is one of the oldest “Märchenwälder”, how fairy forests are called…
Sheikh Zayed Heritage Festival
Two months of Islamic culture in a free open air festival – this is the Sheikh Zayed Heritage Festival close to Abu Dhabi. I was very interested in the place when I ran into it several times on website, but…
VR Park – A Virtual Reality Theme Park in Dubai
You may like Dubai or not – but it is hard to argue that the city does not try to offer everything you feel like paying money for. Gaming geeks, for example, have two pilgrimage ground in quite close proximity:…