Discover Risco Caido and Gran Canaria’s holy mountains
In 2019 the fourth site on the Canary Islands was awarded the status of a UNESCO world heritage site: Risco …
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Fuerteventura – Desert hikes and sunny beaches
Fuerteventura literally means “strong winds” and that was indeed the prevalent feature of the island when we visited for 12 …
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Happy New Year 2021 – Year of the Ox
Travel Review 2020 We wish you a happy and healthy New Year! As always, we conclude the previous year with …
A brief beach and sightseeing holiday on Saipan
Saipan is a tiny island in the North Pacific and part of the Northern Mariana Islands. We travelled to Saipan …
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A tour through the Bauhaus Memorial in Bernau
The modernist Workers’ Union school was built into a forest outside of Berlin. Today it is open to visitors as …
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Jaegersborg Dyrehave – a unique hunting park in Denmark (UNESCO)
Red wooden gates mark the entrance to the Jaegersborg Dyrehave UNESCO site. The “dyrehave” is a deer park north of …
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Stevns Klint (Stevns Cliff) and the Danish Dinosaurs
Why did the dinosaurs have to die? They disappeared a long time ago, so nobody knows for sure and it’s …
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Visit Graz – the most beautiful city in Austria
After two weeks of climbing in the mountains, we switch bare rock and high altitudes for some urban atmosphere to …
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Hiking the Mullerthal Trail in Luxembourg during Corona times
Luxembourg is such a small country that you are tempted to think it consists only of the City of Luxembourg. …
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Kayaking on the river Peene – the German Amazonas
“Westerly winds and some showers, too cool for early July”. The weather forecast for our week of kayaking on the …
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