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
Tips around Reykjavik – Iceland to get a taste of
And that’s supposed to be a capital city? The line between suburban feeling and urban flair runs along an unsteady pattern in Reykjavik’s alleyways. Sometimes you stand
About surf spots, favorite spots and coastal happiness on Madeira
You could read a line or two about Madeira here in the last few weeks – I told you my top spots in Funchal, presented my favorite hiking routes and showed you the wild beauty of
Iceland – slowed down on the Golden Circle
What do you do if you want to see as much of Iceland as possible, but don’t have enough time to do so? After it was clear that we would spontaneously end up in Iceland at the
Andalusia road trip – round trip along the white villages
For which I was reluctant to drive for years and could hardly sleep a wink days before an upcoming car trip, I was suspiciously often behind the wheel this year. But as the saying
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
Funchal top tips – experience Madeira’s capital
No, Funchal is not a “pearl”. From a distance, the island capital of Madeira looks as if the depression between the coast and the hilly hinterland had been filled with
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
Sigriswil panoramic bridge – suspension bridge hike
The weather last Saturday was just lovely! Bright sunshine at almost 20 degrees Celsius and the autumnal trees – a dream. We took advantage of this good weather for a short trip
With ups and downs – Madeira’s wild north
A road trip along Madeira’s old coastal road is like driving through a postcard. The serpentines wind through the green hills and every few hundred meters a road sign points
Hiking and wondering in Madeira
Madeira makes hikers’ hearts beat faster. We would not have thought that such a tiny dot in the Atlantic Ocean would turn out to be such a diverse grab bag. Madeira’s w