I’m an old-fashioned gal. I don’t appreciate much modern art (sorry, but I just don’t understand it) nor do I like modern ugly apartment buildings. I think that castles and palaces of bygone eras showed more our engineering and artistic abilities than any modern-day skyscrapers. I might be wrong but who would say that some… Read More The Gherkin (London)
Do you enjoy wine? Do you like Roman ruins? If so, do continue reading about my day trip to Portuguese town of Évora. During our week in Lisbon we took two organized day trips. Since it was our honeymoon I didn’t really want to spend hours and hours like I usually do trying to find… Read More Wines & Roman temple
Nestled in a bay at the French-Italian border lies the small town of Menton famous for its annual Fête du Citron (the Lemon Festival). Less known than Nice or St.Tropez this charming French Riviera town offers a laid-back experience of both the French & Italian Riviera. Menton has a population of under 30 000 inhabitants… Read More A guide to Menton, France
A few weeks ago I got nominated for the Sunshine Blogger Award by a nice Canadian blogger Alicia from Takeout&Topshop blog. It was a lovely surprise 🙂 Thank you Alicia again for the nomination. Sorry that it took me so long to answer your questions, but here they are: 1. What inspired your blog name? Well,… Read More The Sunshine Blogger Award
Have you ever seen a movie that made such an impression on you that afterwards when you visited the city it was filmed in you wanted to find the locations from that movie?That happened to me a few times. When my friend and I visited Vienna for the first time we wanted to find a… Read More Travel through movies?
On the penultimate day of our honeymoon in Lisbon we visited the Lisbon oceanarium in Parque das Nações, where the EXPO was held in 1998. This is definitely a modern part of otherwise charmingly historic & romantic Lisbon. I enjoyed walking around the grounds of the former World Exhibition site which is nowadays a residential… Read More Lisbon oceanarium
the Red Phone Box travels 