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Rochefort France – A Maritime Town With a Lot of History and Charm

September 30, 2019 By Inka Piegsa-Quischotte This article may contain affiliate links. We may earn a small commission if you buy through our links.

Rochefort France - Hermione Ship

Rochefort France – More Than a Picture-Perfect Town It never fails to surprise me, that an apparently sleepy, provincial town like Rochefort France with only approx. 26.000 inhabitants can harbor such a great variety of history, monuments, art and even eccentricity. From the surrender of Napoleon in 1815 to launching ships and being the hometown of Pierre Loti, one of France’s most famous and ... Read Full Article

Filed Under: France, Western Europe Tagged With: France

Be Enchanted by Germany’s Harz Mountains

April 4, 2018 By Inka Piegsa-Quischotte This article may contain affiliate links. We may earn a small commission if you buy through our links.

Half-timbered houses in Harz Mountains Germany Quedlinburg

Be enchanted by Germany’s Harz Mountains What first springs to mind when thinking about Germany’s fairytale landscapes of the Brothers Grimm may be the Black Forest. Think again and cast your eyes further North, to one of Germany’s  undervalued but extremely fascinating regions: the Harz mountains. In fact, many of the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm originate from the Harz Region. ... Read Full Article

Filed Under: Germany, Western Europe Tagged With: Germany

Things to Do in Algarve: 3 Day Itinerary from Faro to Lagos

August 26, 2019 By Inka Piegsa-Quischotte This article may contain affiliate links. We may earn a small commission if you buy through our links.

Things to do in Algarve, Portugal - Faro to Lagos - Best Beaches in Algarve Portugal

Things to Do in Algarve, Portugal: 3 Day Itinerary from Faro to Lagos If you are heading for Portugal’s Algarve, you are in for a treat. From the westernmost point of  Cabo de Sao Vicente to Cacela Velha in the east at the border with Spain, you find a cornucopia of sites. Beaches, mountains, thermal springs, cork and ceramics, castles and museums, you won’t know what to do and where to go ... Read Full Article

Filed Under: Southern Europe, Portugal

Discover Western Algarve: Monchique

November 29, 2017 By Inka Piegsa-Quischotte This article may contain affiliate links. We may earn a small commission if you buy through our links.

Western Algarve Portugal - Monchique

Discover Western Algarve: Monchique  – Think Mountains not Beaches Many people who consider Portugal’s Algarve as their holiday destination, will think about the dramatic coastline, with breathtaking rock formations, alternating with fine, sandy beaches. But that is not all that Western Algarve has to offer. Discover Monchique in Western Algarve What’s not so well known are the treasures of ... Read Full Article

Filed Under: Southern Europe, Portugal Tagged With: Portugal

Experience Lausanne like a Local

October 1, 2019 By Inka Piegsa-Quischotte This article may contain affiliate links. We may earn a small commission if you buy through our links.

Lausanne like a Local: Castle on Lake Geneva, Switzerland

  Experience Lausanne like a Local I’m still nursing a few blisters, but that’s before I learned how to explore Lausanne like a local. What I didn’t consider was that Lausanne is built on three rather steep hills, connected by bridges, narrow streets, vertigo inducing staircases and, if you are lucky enough to find them, the odd elevator. But Lausanne locals, as I learned from my guide, ... Read Full Article

Filed Under: Central Europe, Switzerland Tagged With: Switzerland, lausanne

Easter in Spain: Tips for Tourists

June 20, 2018 By Inka Piegsa-Quischotte This article may contain affiliate links. We may earn a small commission if you buy through our links.

Make the most of Easter in Spain Tips for Easter in Spain Easter, or Semana Santa in Spanish, is the most important religious holiday of the country. More important than Christmas and it also lasts a lot longer. Although the word ‘semana’ (week) indicates a week, the entire festivities cover more like two weeks, during which time most of public life grinds to a halt. Everybody is gearing up to ... Read Full Article

Filed Under: Southern Europe, Spain Tagged With: andalucia, sevilla

Barcelona like a Local

October 1, 2019 By Inka Piegsa-Quischotte This article may contain affiliate links. We may earn a small commission if you buy through our links.

Experience Barcelona like a local I have the good fortune to have a friend, born and bred in Barcelona, who kindly took me by the hand, sometimes literally, to let me experience Barcelona like a local. Of course, there are many places every visitor to Barcelona just has to see, like the Sagrada Familia, Gaudi buildings, the Liceo and Palacio de la Musica or the Montjuic mountain and park. But, ... Read Full Article

Filed Under: Southern Europe, Spain Tagged With: Spain, catalan, Barcelona

Get Ready for Fasnacht in Basel, Switzerland

June 12, 2014 By Inka Piegsa-Quischotte This article may contain affiliate links. We may earn a small commission if you buy through our links.

  This year I made my way to Fasnacht in Basel, Switzerland. I am on a mission. Over the next years, I want to visit and participate in as many carnivals all over the world as I possibly can.  Last year I went to Venice, Italy. What better way of getting a real insight into local culture, in fact into the essence of other peoples’ idiosyncrasies than watching them when they let their hair ... Read Full Article

Filed Under: Southern Europe, Switzerland, Italy Tagged With: Switzerland

Canal of Corinth, Agamemnon’s Tomb and Epidaurus

June 11, 2014 By Inka Piegsa-Quischotte This article may contain affiliate links. We may earn a small commission if you buy through our links.

I hadn't expected to visit the Canal of Corinth, Agamemnon’s tomb and Epidaurus  on this trip, but Athens was a nightmare. I had arrived in the middle of violent demonstrations against the government’s austerity measures. Roads were closed off which made getting from A to B extremely difficult, even on foot, unless you wanted to risk life and limb. The Acropolis was shrouded in scaffolding and ... Read Full Article

Filed Under: Southern Europe, Greece Tagged With: athens, Greece, Mycenae

Bulgaria’s Sunny Beach: a Study in Contrasts

June 30, 2016 By Inka Piegsa-Quischotte This article may contain affiliate links. We may earn a small commission if you buy through our links.

Just a few miles from Nesebar lies Bulgaria’s most popular and much advertised seaside resort: Sunny Beach. A summer destination much favored by locals, Russians and many other Europeans who  come in search of sand, sunshine and anything else usually associated with Spain’s Costa del Sol but at much more affordable prices. After thoroughly enjoying Nesebar, I hopped in my little rental car ... Read Full Article

Filed Under: Bulgaria, Eastern Europe

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