weekend trips

The smallest town in the world, as the locals like to call Durbuy, lies in the middle of the Belgian Ardennes in the province of Luxembourg. Durbuy was initially given the status of a city despite a very low number of inhabitants by Jean de Luxembourg in the 14th century.…

You won’t believe me but only now I have finalized treating pictures from our trip to Montserrat last year in the beginning of September during our wine trip to Penedes. The Benedictine Monastery built in an unusual rock mountain is the most religious place in Catalunya and attracts pilgrims from…

So the Christmas is over. But the good news is that they will be back again in 11 months! 😉 I was quite busy over the holidays period so that I was not able to post this article about the Christmas spirit in Brussels earlier. Hopefully, it may serve you…

Do you know that Belgium hosts the largest Japanese garden in Europe? I didn’t know it until last Saturday! One of my dear Czech friends came up with the idea to visit a Japanese garden of Hasselt, in the Flemish province of Limburg, and so we formed a group of…

In the evening after visiting Cava Codorníu and Villafranca that you might have read about in the previous post, we arrived in the place where we booked a stay for the weekend. Comarquinal Bioresort Penedes is a charming rural guesthouse in the middle of nature, but still not far from a small…

In the beginning of September, we took few days off to head again to our beloved Barcelona and its surrounding. First few days, we rented a car and made a trip to Penedès, a beautiful hilly wine region where the cava (kind of Spanish champagne) is produced. In this post,…

This year we decided to spend some quality summer time in the Czech Republic, so we took our bikes and visited the very South part of Moravia, which is close to the border with Austria. Apart from nice bike trails, castles, and natural wonders, some good wine is produced in…

Summer is approaching fast and many of you will travel to Spain. I hope you can get to see the second largest and one of the most beautiful cities in Spain. Barcelona is also the economic and touristic center of Catalonia, but also a tough competitor of the Spanish Capital…

Bernkastel-Kues is an charming old town in the region of Moselle, a very West part of Germany. It is a town rich in history and culture and offers many opportunities how to spend a day or weekend. A day trip to Bernkastel-Kues that lies only 2,5 hours’ drive from Brussels.…

We had planned the visit of Istanbul for some time, but finally in November we managed to create a small group of 5 friends, out of which one is of Turkish origin and knows Istanbul very well. Thanks to him we had a wonderful time in this city. So we got…