Posts in category ”Travel destinations”
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A nice house in Palma
I climb the wide stone steps from the Royal Garden, sweating from the relentless Mallorcan sun, turn a corner and there it is. La Seu, this hulking Gothic beast of a cathedral, rising out of Palma’s old town like it owns every cobblestone in sight.
The seedy past of Marseille
As I walked along the streets of Marseille, my thoughts went to the seedy streets from the 1971 movie “French Connection” and wondered how much it had changed in 40 years.
Across the divided island of Ireland
Behind the facade of greedy leprechauns and frothy Guinness. Ireland is sadly still a land in conflict, even if things are starting to look brighter. Passing the border to northern Ireland is a breeze compared to the ordeals only ten years ago.
Depeche Mode Baar in Tallinn
Tallinn is a medieval fortress town of cobbled lanes, crooked alleyways and post-Soviet grit. And somewhere in the shadows lies a temple of synth and sorrow, the Depeche Mode Baar.
A cold New Years Eve in Budapest
Budapest in December doesn’t mess around with the winter cold, it punches me in the teeth with it. The Danube carves through the city like a frozen artery, and the wind slices through my jacket like it’s tissue paper.
A journey through Iran
Imam Khomeini Airport was not exactly a party zone late in the evening, and the passport control was extremely tedious, but here we are. Rolled out of the airport and found ourselves thrust into the belly of Tehran’s traffic beast.
Warsaw from above
From up high, the view of Warsaw stretches out like a history book thrown open mid-sentence. The five-star hotel InterContinental Warsaw offers a good look at the city. It’s the tallest hotel in Poland, but it’s overshadowed by another nearby building.
Tromsø and beyond
The Troms County is a place of beauty. Perched at 69 degrees north, far above the Arctic Circle, its rugged coastline faces the Norwegian Sea, wrapped in polar light.
Egg hunting in Brussels
Belgium is a land caught somewhere between chocolate hedonism and bureaucratic absurdity. Even though the name of the country is used as a curse in Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, it can be a nice place in the summertime.
From Toledo to Salamanca
Toledo sits like a medieval fever dream on a hill, coiled tight with winding alleys and ghosts of empires past. The kind of place where El Greco’s elongated saints stare you down with those haunted eyes, and steel blades once flashed beneath dusty cloaks.