I went out just to get some food, between two football games… but it was nice outside, clouded, but pleasant, so I decided to take Black Mamba, the scooter, out for a tour. Yesterday I had noticed how a street behind my block was leading straight into the forest. So I took it, and reached…
After a serious storm this morning, sun came out briefly in the afternoon, so I went out to take the Martisor pictures. Of flowers. For ladies. All ladies are invited to pick one flower of the below (or more) and have, in the good old Romanian tradition, a happy spring. Then I went to a…
I had almost 1000km ahead of me that day, so i woke up early. With eyes half-open, taking the luggage to the car, I went out of the building and… stopped. Fog. What a fog. Like in movies. Was 8 in the morning. So I said – I’ll hang around for a while, by the…
Mile 870: Olomouc They say that less than 10% of the tourists entering the Czech Republic go somewhere else than Prague. We were among those 10% and drove 300 km to Olomouc, a city in the east, close to the Slovakian border; former capital of Moravia, the second region of the Czech Republic, after Bohemia,…
Mile 700. I was blown away by Prague. I knew it is a beautiful city, everyone I heard talking about it was very appreciative, but I didn’t expect… this.The night we arrived we went for a walk, without the camera. Awesome. I couldn’t believe it. The old part of town is HUGE, and brilliantly restored.…
Mile 600: Dresden. We parked next to the Frauenkirche, Lady’s Church, in the convenient underground parking. Frauenkirche, the most well-known church in Dresden, was completely distroyed on Feb 13, 1945 and restored in 2005. It is impressive, with its „dalmatian” style of old burned black stones and new yellow ones. I dont know if the…
Mile 400: à Goettingen, à Goettingen. At the beginning of our walk through Goettingen, on the way to the university, we saw these two girls sitting on a fence, very preoccupiedly reading… Harry Potter 7. Both of them. afterwards, we noticed that guy trying to climb a kind of steep terrain with his bicycle speaking…
Only 248 of 350 were open. 248 kilometers. Of slope. All in the same resort. They say it’s the oldest mountain resort in the world, host of the second Winter Olympic Games edition in 1928. If it wouldnt have been for G.’s visit, I probably wouldnt have gone to St. Moritz too soon. I went…
My friend G. came for a week-end visit, so we took a walk through Zurich. It seems I only get to see the city when friends come over – which is cool, every time I discover something new. Beautiful sunny day, trickily reminding of spring in the middle of January. The lake was quiet, ready…
I wrote this small reportage for smugmug journeys, but since it is, actually, about …footsteps/shootsteps, i guess it belongs here as well, so – here we go… … A walk through Sighisoara is like a journey back in time. The city was built by German colonists called “Sachsen” (Saxons), who settled in starting with the…
Exploring your home land can be at least as exciting as traveling the world. other emotions, but similar excitement. like kids discovering another hidden passage behind a seemingly harmless door, in the household – a brandnew gate to adventure. usually, spots in immediate proximity to home remain fairly unexplored, by the principle – “can be…
* for their impressive historic sites, well preserved and “showcased”, * for the Danube, * for the „Christkindlmarkt” – clean, civilized * for the souvenirs and products in general of good quality and taste (no plastics!) * for the diversified street cuisine * for kurtoskalacs * for the civilized, clean atmosphere (e.g., in the metro)…
the journey home was longer and shorter. longer than usual, shorter than expected. i took the train to munchen and from there the overnight to budapest. i could have gone straight home by train, but i reserved a plane ticket from budapest to cluj. it was ok like this, a 28 hours train ride would…
Dijon’s great touristic attraction for me on Sunday was the game between Romania and Hungary, at the women’s handball world cup. So I drove the 3 hours to the place, managed to get the ticket i had reserved via the internet (collection centers were all closed.. sundays.. so i got it finally from the sports…
This weekend I had the pleasure of Vivekananda’s visit. He landed on Friday evening, sms-ed me that he will take the train to zurich, I wrote back saying that it will take him 5 mins, we shd meet in ~1 hr at the station, as I was caught up in work. We met after more…
went to Strasbourg yesterday, just to check it out – it’s only 2 hours drive away. well, it was actually 3h, because of traffic and road constructions. very charming town, Christkindlmarkt, like everywhere in… Germany (Strasbourg & Alsace used to be part of Germany, the town is still bilingual), with Gluehwein (sweet hot wine with…
Great to have Zaid visiting over the week-end! Saturday a day walk through a rainy-snowy city, with a (first time for me as well) climb on top of the cathedral and an attempt to a panorama on top of the Uetliberg, where we landed in the middle of a cloud, on stormy weather and snow-muddy…
Lumi & Seanwere here for a long week-end. One of those moments that make hard work worth. my apartment always enjoys these visits almost as much as i do, as it gets cleaned with the occasion. they stayed at my place and explored zurich; we met at night for dinner.. in 2 days they discovered…
followed the insider tip from the „Marco Polo” tourist book and went to Walensee, a lake 90km away, off the beaten path. Mountains fall into the lake abruptly from ~1000m. that was in the book.Here comes the insider tip to the insider tip: dont stop there. Follow the random sign to „wallestadtberg”, („city-of-the-welsh-mountain”), and dont…
boston, charming as ever. walking through the city was a great continuation of the whalewatching morning. One little favor global warming gives us were these great indian summer day with 25 degrees (celsius) in boston! http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf
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