UNESCO World Heritage sites that we visited:
Clear lines, abstract formality, total functionality: Bauhaus is the quintessential German design school. Of several locations of the Bauhaus school, …
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„Rambo, Rambo!“ A small-framed man points agitatedly towards the courtyard of a wooden mansion in central Harar. A brawl, we …
Poland has over a dozen UNESCO World Heritage sites, but only one of them, the Białowieża Forest, is a natural …
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The queues that snaked their way towards the entrance gate seemed endless. “How long will it take?” “Less than an …
Continue reading “A visit to Himeji Castle – the restored White Heron Castle”
Officially, the small island not far from Hiroshima in the Japanese Inland Sea goes by the name of Itsukushima Island. …
“Welcome,” shouts a girl’s voice into the microbus when we arrive in Korgalzhyn, the nearest village to Lake Tengiz. Saika …
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Getting to Lalibela from the capital Addis Abeba by bus was sort of a nightmare. On the other hand this …
On Christmas Day in the year 800 AD, Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in …
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Essen is a city in the middle of the “Ruhrgebiet”, Germany’s traditional centre of mining and heavy industry. But today …
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The coal mines in South Wales used to be among the biggest in the world, and the miners’ strikes in …
Continue reading “The Big Pit coal museum in South Wales – an encounter with the miners”
