Travel guide – Saint Petersburg in winter
Three years ago, we decided that New Year’s Eve would be more fun abroad. On the one hand, you don’t feel obligated to compulsively organize any New Year’s partie
14 Christmas markets – Graz at Christmas time
UNESCO City of Design, a historic city centre as a World Heritage Site, a lively cultural scene, nice cafés and creative shops. Graz has a number of trump cards up its sleeve. As
Weekend in Rome – sights and travel tips
5 years of Latin. Finding subjectives, objectives, and verbs sentence by sentence. Decipher Roman stories and wisdom from Virgil, Ovid, Cicero and Caesar. And in the end, the littl
One night in Málaga – sights and tips
Málaga may be the second largest city in Andalusia, but the port city is not on the winner’s podium among the tourist hotspots of southern Spain. Most visitors to Andalusia
Alhambra Granada – of shattered illusions
My landscape architecture professor put the Alhambra in Granada on my travel bucket list. Lecture after lecture, examples of the elaborate and detailed gardens were shown, which we
Travel guide: Art and sights in Basel
With the highest density of museums in Switzerland and the famous Art Basel art fair, Basel can rightly adorn itself with the title of Swiss City of Art and Culture. Last weekend,
Beau-Rivage Palace – Lausanne with Lake Geneva view
Since 1861, the Beau-Rivage Palace has been welcoming guests from all over the world in an exquisite location in Lausanne Ouchy. Famous personalities such as Charlie Chaplin, Coco
A top weekend at the Hotel Einstein in Gallusstadt
This autumn is dedicated to Swiss cities. City trips are very popular anyway and why not start in the neighboring city instead of jetting halfway around the world? With the excepti
Sights in Belgrade – my top tips for your city trip
“Is this German?” the taxi driver wants to know from us. The three of us sit in the back seat and are on our way to get to know the infamous nightlife of Belgrade. To o
5 top fall destinations
This morning I noticed the first yellow leaves on the ground. An unmistakable sign that summer is coming to an end. But that’s no reason to be gloomy. Autumn offers great mom
City trip: a summer weekend in Geneva
We don’t like to think back to our last visit to Geneva. It ended with an involuntary shower under the jet d’eau and a broken camera. But the city is not to blame for m
Nice – the pastel beauty in focus
From Zurich via Nice to Calvi. Sounds awkward, but has tempting benefits. In general, I prefer direct flights. Especially if it is a destination within Europe. Especially for holid