Posts in category ”Travel destinations”
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Port wine in the Douro Valley
Today I’m in Porto, the birthplace of port wine in northern Portugal. The Alto Douro wine country is the oldest demarcated wine region on the planet and even the Romans made wine on the banks of the Douro river.
The derelict state of Porto
In Portugal, the sea has always been close. The country was once a nation of great seafarers and the city of Porto has been an important port since Roman times. Today, things are different.
Lazy days in Lucerne
After having recently spent time in Swiss cities such as Zürich and Bern, the town of Luzern surprisingly turns out to be the prettiest of them all. It feels more like a town in northern Italy than one in Switzerland.
Wazzup in Vaduz
Welcome to Liechtenstein. A place that sounds like a sneeze and feels like someone built a postcard and forgot to add people.
The dark past of Munich
The Munich of today is beer gardens, bratwurst and BMWs. A polished Bavarian jewel that sparkles with lederhosen kitsch and Oktoberfest delirium. But peel back the postcard gloss and you’ll find a city that once danced with the devil, and did so with shocking enthusiasm.
Roaming in Romania
Romania doesn’t exactly top the average traveler’s bucket list. No glossy postcards, no luxury resorts promising umbrella drinks and soft towels. Instead, what you get is the kind of raw, unvarnished charm that sticks with you like the scent of wood smoke on an old coat.
Greetings from Moldova
Moldova. Just saying the name out loud gets you blank stares and polite nods from people who couldn’t find it on a map if their life depended on it. Sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania, it’s a land that feels like someone misplaced it somewhere around 1983 and never bothered to look for it again.
Ode to Odessa
There’s something about a city perched on the edge of a continent, staring out at the dark oily sea from the faded grandeur of its baroque facades. Odessa is one of those places.
On a misty night in Kiev
It was a misty night in Kiev. I left the large Sophia Square, where the golden domes of Saint Sophia Cathedral and Saint Michael’s Cathedral normally are visible.
Exploring Chernobyl
It starts with a checkpoint. Grim-faced men with Geiger counters at the ready, guarding the edge of the 30-kilometer exclusion zone like it’s the gates of hell. Welcome to Chernobyl, a place where the past didn’t just linger, it exploded and then refused to die.