Jakarta? Why Jakarta? And why Jakarta for just two days? Where is Jakarta at all? – Indonesia! Questions I heard often when we came back home. Well, it appears it just arouse. Jakarta is an interesting city regarding its fast growth and the circumstances, yet it is not really a city which is known …
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Switzerland is known to be one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Not very surprisingly, its cities are in no way inferior to the landscape! We had the pleasure to visit the city of Bern, capital of Switzerland, and were thrilled. Find more content about Bern on our city page! Probably the very …
When I tell you we flew with KLM, you probably know where we stopped first: Schiphol, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Which is kind of tough at about 8 am after a night with only two hours of sleep (flight in the morning, transfer way, time to spend on the airport before departure). Anyways, our …
It is one thing to have vacation with your family and get there by car. It is another thing to fly “away” to another country on a regional distance. But it is a completely other thing if you’ve only slept for two hours the night before your daytrip and connecting flight which takes twelve hours! …
On my flight from Istanbul to Munich, a chinese business man was sitting next to me. After some time, he started talking to me, and boy, this was hard to understand at the beginning! But that reminded me of my time in San Francisco when I visited Chinatown. Even though it’s been a while since I was …
There are many ways to discover a city: A sightseeing tour on a bus, selecting the most “important” things to see and follow that route or just start in the center and let yourself drift and see what’s on the way. But I guess the fourth possibility is something one may rarely do: Enjoy …
It always looks and feels the same. I’ve been in Italy many times before when I was a child, so the vegetation and almost everything in this country is familiar to me. Yet our current stay in Rome in August was somewhat different. Due to this, I did not have the typical “Wow, how …
Almost everybody travels once in his or her lifetime. Some start loving it and some are just glad when they come back home again. Destination plays an important role on the outcome as well as the way one gets there and the duration of the stay. Well, London was really not my first time …
Never say never. Travelling by car is something we rarely do, but apparently, some exceptions still exist. This time: 400 km to Dresden, the capital of Saxony in the east of Germany. Even if it is not a city known for its size or its sights or its universities or anything other, Dresden surprised …