The beach resort of The Hague / Den Haag, Scheveningen, is one of the most popular beach areas in the Netherlands. Not too surprisingly, some well-known tourist attraction chains are part of the touristic Scheveningen as well. One of them is…
The Masone Labyrinth – the (Formerly) World-Largest Maze
Until 2018, you could travel to Italy to visit the world largest labyrinth. The Labirinto Della Masone near Parma is a huge place in which you might get lost in very worst case. I have been too late when I…
BlueBrixx Megastore (Loop5 Weiterstadt) – The World Largest Brick Bar
More than 5,000 small buckets one next to another in a bunch of aisles within one store. The contents: interlocking building bricks. Or Klemmbausteine or Noppensteine, how they are called in Germany. As you might have learned in my Bricky Trouble posting,…
Sharjah Aquarium
I already introduced you to the Sharjah Maritime Museum in a previous posting. Right next to this place, there is another Sharjah City Museum about life and water – the Sharjah Aquarium. I had visited the aquarium in the past…
Little Big City Berlin
Driving a model landscape or a large model train landscape in Germany is a difficult business: Even if you do a good job – if one compares you to the Hamburg Miniatur Wunderland, you are lost. The best rated attraction…
“Hanse Steinreich” Exhibition at the European Hansa Museum
There was a duplicate reason to visit the European Hansa Museum in Lübeck in late July 2021: apart from the amazing main exhibition, which I reviewed in a separate posting, they drove the temporary exhibition Hanse Steinreich. The name means “Hansa…
Graz Fairy Tale Train (Grazer Märchenbahn)
Yeah, I give in: in amusement parks, I love to do what I call atmospheric rides. Not too quick, but colorful, entertaining, just traveling with a boat or a train into another world for a few minutes. Thus, the Grazer Märchenbahn (Graz…
Fauna Animal Park Solingen
Even though Solingen is not a that major city (some 160,000 inhabitants), it features two mid-size animal parks / zoos. However, they are quite a drive apart from each other, some 20 minutes (12 km) on a low traffic day.…