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Hiking and Scramble Tour of Great Saint “We are going up this way?” I asked, in slight disbelief, looking at the cliffs. There was no path to be seen and my heart was already pounding from walking up the trail to the foot of the actual rocks. From this point on, it seemed no human […]
Let’s be honest, Athens is not a pretty city. I was actually quite shocked when arriving and expecting to find a historical city that would compare to other European capitals like Paris or Rome, but Athens turned out to be quite different in many ways. Not only was Athens unique in terms of its ancient […]
Discover UNESCO: Mont Saint-Michel and its Bay Situated on a small rocky island just off the coast between Normandy and Brittany Mont Saint-Michel is an impossible to miss landmark when driving along the Atlantic coast of France. The Gothic style abbey with its tall rising spire, situated on the already 92 meter high peak of […]
Packing for a camper road trip was actually not an easy task, especially if you had never been on an extended camping drive before. Not being limited to a backpack, it seemed all too tempting to bring things along that were not really necessary. So figuring out which items were actually really needed and worth […]
Everybody has learned in school about the D-Day, or the Operation Overlord as the invasion of Normandy in France was officially called. But visiting the actual locations where British, Canadian, French and US troops landed on June 6th in 1944 and learning about the longest day in history that ultimately lead to the end of […]
Discover UNESCO Mud of Germany, Netherlands and Denmark There are really obvious World Heritage Sites and there are more subtle ones. The UNESCO inscribed Wadden Sea definitely belongs to the latter of the two categories. Being nothing but a seemingly endless plain of continuous mud where one would expect to find the waters of the […]
The Self-made Camping Bulli Idea This had always been a dream for me. Actually ever since receiving my driver’s license the idea had existed of simply buying an old Volkswagen van, called Bulli in German, converting it into a camper and exploring Europe independently. But as often the case with dreams, they sometimes don’t quite […]
As part of our road trip through Europe, Boulogne-sur-Mer happened to be our first stop in France and it was a surprisingly pleasant one. As it turned out, Boulonge was not only located by the sea as indicated by the addition sur-Mer, but it had also been quite an important harbor town throughout the centuries. […]
Discover UNESCO: Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout Windmills are great. They are not only great because their slowly turning wings look beautiful in the flat, windswept landscapes, but also because they are an extremely fascinating type of historical architecture. These huge wood and brick machines were both workplace and home for many Dutch families in the […]
Only two kilometers off the border with northern Germany lies the small village of Bourtange, within the Dutch province of Groningen. But this was not an ordinary village, it was actually an amazingly well preserved star fort village, so well preserved that walking through the stone gates really felt like travelling back in time and […]
Berlin is famous for its wall. Well, Berlin is famous for the fact that it once had a wall that not only divided the city into east and west, but also entirely enclosed it. While Berlin was forced to exist as an island in the middle of the communist sea, the wall itself became a […]
Berlin has changed a lot in recent years. In fact, Berlin might actually have been the fastest changing city in the world during the last two decades. What used to be a really cool, creative place during the 90s had by now become a much too shiny and polished version of its former self. It […]
Discover UNESCO: Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin Walking the extensive gardens of Sanssouci in Potsdam on a nice, sunny day simply is one of the best things to do when visiting Berlin. What used to be a small garrison town outside of Berlin, changed drastically when Frederick the Great decided to establish his […]