Posts Tagged ‘europe resorts’

Every now and then, it is normal for everyone to crave something different and out of the way. One day, you might wake up and for no apparent reason feel like skipping work and spending the day at the movies instead. Or this need for variation may be exhibited in small, somewhat insignificant ways such [...]

Historical settings and modern conveniences in the center of Moscow, the Ararat Park Hyatt Moscow offers an ideal location for business guests with little free time, but great aspirations to gather an impression of the city.
Some of the most famous sites are concentrated around the hotel, including the Bolshoi Theater adjacent and the Kremlin, Red [...]

Very little is known about Ada Bojana Island in Montenegro. I decided to write on this page some usfel information about Ada Bojana, a beautiful touristic place which should not be ignored by travelers to Montenegro.
 

Spiekeroog, Germany - The word hectic is unknown on the East Frisian islands off the northern coast of Germany and that applies to the cosy isle of Spiekeroog more than to any of its six neighbours. The bathing resort on nearby Norderney was better known. But as early as 1846, guests started coming here instead [...]

Hum, Croatia - The whole place seems to be made of grey, rectangular stone, there is not a soul in sight and dried leaves scurry along the road as the wind blows past the only shop for miles around. Visitors who pass by the permanently open wooden gateway and enter the town of Hum in [...]

Solovetsky Islands, Russia - It may be an awesome photo: the soaring cupolas of the monastery rise from Russia’s White Sea just as Alexander Solzhenitsyn described them, but snap-happy tourists at the site of the Soviet Union’s most violent prison camp have drawn angry protests from priests and scholars alike. Both camps petitioned for the [...]

Mariehamn, Finland - First-time visitors to the Aland Islands, an archipelago of some 6,500 islands and islets between Sweden and Finland at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia, can be excused if they feel confused. Though the islands belong to Finland, hardly any of the inhabitants speak Finnish.
Swedish is Aland’s sole official language, and [...]

Santiago de Compostela, Spain - The medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of Saint James in north-western Spain, has experienced a renaissance in recent years. Tens of thousands of people now walk the “camino” to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, where according to legend, the Apostle James lie buried.
 The idea of taking “time out” to [...]

Last weekend, I decided to make a trip to Venice. The reason for my short visit was my curiosity about this north Italian city along the Adriatic Sea, described by so many contradictory statements. While some people discribe it as “romantic” with its more than one hundred small islands and saltwater lagoons, others find it gloomy– especially because [...]

Many UK ex pats and holiday makers in the Costa Blanca have for many years now been able to enjoy transmissions of both terrestrial TV and satellite TV to their TV sets either to their holiday home, or even main home.
These broadcasts have not been legal, in fact the TV signals are received using high-powered [...]

Driving in France is generally a pleasant experience for us coming either from the poorly-maintained, go-kart course which purports to be Italy’s motorway network or, alternatively, from Britain’s bumper-to-bumper, overcrowded motorways. The substantially empty autoroute stretches before you and, apart from at certain times, there is very little other traffic. A word of warning, though [...]

Switzerland is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It has borders with France to the west, Italy to the south, Austria and Liechtenstein to the east and Germany to the north.
The climate is temperate, but varies with altitude. Switzerland has cold, cloudy, rainy/snowy winters and cool to warm, cloudy, humid summers with occasional showers.
Switzerland is [...]

Norway is well known for its amazing and varied scenery. The fjords in the west of the country are long narrow inlets, flanked on either side by tall mountains where the sea penetrates far inland. Norway was an old Viking kingdom. Economically it is known for its oil and seafood exports.
 
Norway is a sparsely populated [...]

After the First World War, the closely related Czechs and Slovaks of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire merged together to form the new nation of Czechoslovakia. During the interwar years, the new country’s leaders were frequently preoccupied with meeting the demands of other ethnic minorities within the republic, most notably the Sudeten Germans and the Hungarians. [...]