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…
weekend trips
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Versailles, one of the most splendid castles ever and an important seat of the French kings for centuries, lies about 20 km South-West from Paris. The present appearance of the complex owns a lot to Louis XIV., alias the King of the Sun, who transformed a small hunting residence to a sumptuous palace. The gardens…
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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.…
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While spending our summer holidays in the south of France last month, we made it to visit Montpellier, the capital of Languedoc-Roussillon. We spent a pleasant evening in this young, vibrating and fastest growing city of the region and here are some pictures that I managed to make quite quickly. Have a drink…
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I have visited Champagne region in France twice. My first trip to Champagne was to the Southern part Côte des Bars and this year we visited the heart of Champagne – Côte des Blancs. My sister came to visit me in Belgium, so we took her there, hoping she might develop a passion for…
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My first trip to Champagne was more precisely to Côte des Bar (in Aube department, between villages Bar-sur-Seine and Bar-sur-Aube). As already mentioned before in my general post about Champagne, we are talking about a wine region where Pinot Noir is predominantly gown type of grapes. We visited Côte des…
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Sparkling wine has become a symbol of party and joy. A wine that made an emblem from the name of the region of its origin. Only sparkling wines produced in the region of Champagne in France can be called Champagne. No other sparkling wine anywhere else in the world cannot use…
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About 200 km South from Paris we can find a vast region of the Loire Valley – a region rich in history and wine production. I visited this region twice and it has always been such a charming experience, so I decided that I definitely need to write about it…
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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…
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Paris for Valentine’s Day? I surprisingly answered to my boyfriend’s proposition. I do not like to celebrate Valentine’s Day, as I find it very commercial. Besides, I hate to walk outside in cold weather. But on the other hand, we have never been to Paris together before and considering the…