History, Fine Cuisine, and Enchanting Views – Paris

Paris is one of those cities that you have to visit.  It is enchanting because of the architectural set up and design.  If you tour the whole city you can see symbols and styles that represent different rulers’ eras.  Just the Louvre has a variety of them because it was built and added to throughout different times.  In addition to this Paris is also filled with museums that have art and historical artefacts.  The Louvre’s collection, for example, is so vast and astonishing that you can’t help, but go visit.  The nightlife of Paris is another attraction.  There are pub crawls, nightclubs, restaurants with fine cuisine and an ambiance that is inimitable.  Another great experience and reason to visit the city is the Eiffel Tower and the Seine boat ride.  They are both ways to see every inch of the city from a different angle.  Anyone who has visited Paris will tell you that you won’t regret it.

Where To Dance in Playa del Carmen

Playa del Carmen comes next to Cancun for travelers to Mexican destinations.  Some come here for their honeymoon, engagement, or just to relax and have fun.  It is a mini-paradise as well as a fun filled destination.  For those who are interested in what goes on during the late night hours get ready for a long list.  Depending on where you are staying you will be able to walk or you will have to take a taxi to get to downtown Playa.  If you want to dance, socialize, drink and party you want to go to eighth street.  You will know you’re there when you see Coco Bongo.  It’s the first club there and it has a big red neon sign you can not miss.  It is also one of the top clubs to go to.  Following, for techno lovers, is the club La Santanera.  You’ll find this one just a bit farther down from Coco Bongo.  The next most popular club is the Blue Parrot which has two music areas, one at the entrance and the next near the beach; they also have a fire show.  The dance scene in Playa del Carmen will leave you more than satisfied.

Good Madrid wines: Bodegas

Even though Madrid isn’t the name that comes to mind when we hear wine, wine lovers will be happy to know that there are plenty of “bodegas” in Madrid.  You can find a selection of local wines and beers.  If you look hard enough you may even find a wine tour to learn a bit more about Spanish wines, accompanied by a light local meal in the wine cellars of choice in the organized tour.  As for our Madrid bodegas you should visit at least a couple, just to compare.  The Bodegas Castejòn in south east Madrid has a collection of wines made from grapes of the Arganda del Rey area.  Another bodega, the Jesus Diaz Winery, is family owned and in the Colmenar de Oreja area.  Other wineries are a bit farther away, like the Prado Rey one.  In this case you should think about renting a car or finding out if there are any buses that go to specific wineries you are interested in, and of course there’s always the local travel agent solution since they can organize the tour and transportation.

The rainbow of New England

All across New England a spectacular display of colours erupts, a traffic light explosion of lime greens, deep reds and warm yellow. One of these spectacular landscape is in Camden Village in Maine. In Camden the famous fall colours are at their most glorious in early October! If you are visiting the South of the New England Region, the coulours peak a little later. New England is know across the world for the tv serial “ A murder she wrote” the main character of the tv serial was Jessica Fletcher and she lived in a small village in Maine! One of the main airport that connects New England to the other Usa cities and to the World Is Portland International Jetport. If you want to visit this amazing region book your hotel in Camden before you leave home! There al lots of hotels in New England, just choose what are looking for!

London Travel Deals

London is a mystic city that encompasses the old and the contemporary within its limits creating a magical atmosphere that draws the tourists in large numbers to this fun filled city. It is not only the tourist who are attracted towards London …

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Wien

A surprising blend of modern and ancient culture, the city of Wien (Vienna)  is located in the north-eastern Austria. This unique mix of cult and heritage is reflected in the air of Vienna. The city is especially renowned for its architectural wonders set against a backdrop of wonderful natural beauty. The whole spectacular sight seems like a Michelangelo’s masterpiece. Well, there is lot more to speak about Vienna. Being the motherland of great musicians like Mozart and Beethoven, Wien has been a great place for flourishing art and entertainment.

Get engrossed into the world of literature at the State Hall of the Austrian National Library. It is a mighty collection of rare books on various topics varying at large. The St. Sephan’s Cathedral is another must-visit, known for purity and holiness and of course the marvelous architecture. The beauty of the cathedral is breathtaking and considered a timeless beauty.

What to read in Athens

In case you are from those who can not spend a day without a newspaper, a magazine or a book even if they are abroad, here’s a bit about some reading options in Athens:

 Athens News Agency (ANA)
Athens News ANA is an abbreviation that you will probably see a lot in many newspapers, this is the official news service of Greece. You can check their website if you need to read any official press releases or something.

 BBC Country Profile: Greece
That’s a great website to review before going to Athens as it features an overview of the whole country as well as, news, key facts and events, timelines, and leader profile.

 Athens News

That’s a weekly newspaper featuring news, business, arts, and sports.

Home Stay London

All home stay London are near bus routes or train stations thus providing easy access to all the destinations in London. Since these are home stays, the guarantee of clean and comfortable homely accommodation is there. Options of home stay with bed and breakfast in London or bed, breakfast and dinner is available thus catering to the needs of various types of customers. Some London home stay provides self-catering options to their boarders. Home stay London is a wonderful experience for travelers who not only want to know about the geographical history of England but also the rich cultural history as well. Home stay London also comes in different category of price range suitable for different types of customers. Budget or economy home stays are available for students and cost-conscious tourist whereas executive high priced home stays are available for business executives.

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About the restaurants in Prague

Although Prague is world-wide known as the city of a hundred spires, yet it has recently acquired a new title which is the city of a thousand restaurants!

 Prague‘s cuisine is gaining an excellent reputation by time globally. But as a tourist visiting Prague for the first time, you should be aware of some restaurants traps!

 

Generally, the prices and quality are not very hard to balance in Prague if compared to another European city like London for example. You can divide the restaurants in Prague into 6 main categories:

 

1-     Gourmet (For those who value the taste more!)

2-     Business (suitable for a business dinner)

3-     Trendy (everyday kind of restaurants)

4-     Budget (everytime kind of restaurants!)

5-     Personal Recommendations (everyone’s favorite)

6-     International.(cuisines from around the world!)

 
In all restaurants in Prague, you’ll have an extra 19%  charge as VAT. Some restaurants don’t charge for service, in such case it would be nice of you to leave around 10% of your bill as tips.

 In case you speak German or English, you don’t have to worry about the menus! That’s because most menus are printed in those 2 languages beside Czech, they also include photos to show how the dish will look.

Take care of a hidden trap here. Some menus show a higher price in the foreign language menu than the Czech menu! So be sure to do the comparison. Also the usual overcharging error is common so you have to check for it too.

 Another cultural tip, sharing tables with strangers is normal and not considered as a rude thing to do specially in budget. The strange tip I have for you finally is NOT to hold the door open for your lady upon entering a place! This tell you’re not a gentleman because you have to, according to the Czech culture, check for any dangers or troubles before you woman enters!

Bevagna

Bevagna

Little town in the heart of Umbria Valley, 7 KM to Foligno, near the most important cultural places in Umbria (Spello, Assisi, Trevi), Bevagna offers a place full of history e popular traditions even for the most demanding tourist, and an intact surraundings with traditional and genuine cooking. Its beautiful square, with the Cathedral still in restoring for the heartquake damages , gives you a picture of a small town who is still breathing the traditional Middle Age smells and flavours. The “San Silvestro” Church, datable 1195, the Master Binello work, is a simple and austere beauty of tipical umbrian architecture. As you can’t lost to admire the Consuls’ Palace, with the Paper Museum below, where it shows you the ancient methods of paper working, and the numerous discoveries of roman age. Surraunded from middle age walls and crossed from the Topino and Clitunno rivers, the scene you can see is really charming and unique. The tourist loving traditions can go to Bevagna on the last week of June, when there is the famous Gaite’s Market: for a week the all town trasforms its streets in a Middle Age center where the citizens, dressed with tipical clothes of that age, show the old customs. You can admire the little artisans working their manufactured articles and, if you want, truffles and Sagrantino, a tipical wine of the Umbria Valley, take you in this little and beautiful journey.

Madonna Square in Florence Italy

The Madonna Square, otherwise known as Piazza di Madonna, is centrally located inthe historic center of Florence. This Square is known for its proximity to many fine restaurants and hotels in Florence. It is near the Piazza della Signoria, and is a terrific choice if you are looking for an area that is both close to the action, but also is quiet enough to give you a bit of peace between your busy schedule of sightseeing and nightlife while in Florence. There are also a number of hostels located close to the Piazza di Madonna, so you have quite an array of options when looking for accommodations in the area. The Madonna Square itself is in very close proximity to the Cappelle Medicee, the private chapel of the Medici’s, and home to a number of original Michelangelo sculptures as well as a museum focusing on Florentine art spanning the centuries of Italian art history.

American people prefer foreign ones

Cars

The automotive landscape of Manhattan is unique in the States. Just seven meters long limousines and police flying everywhere with the flashing on the roof, which remind us that we are in America. For the rest, in the stream of traffic big pickups are missing. And Dodges Silverado, Cadillacs Escalade, Chevrolets Trailblazer and the Fords Escape that raging on highways, in the streets of Manhattan seem almost disappeared, forced to cede center stage to exotic competitors. The same foreign occurs between normal cars: the new yorkers appreciate the rationality and quality Japanese economy and Korean reality and for sure the class and elegance of Europe engineers. Traffic that turns the intensity to chaotic parking difficult and expensive, the myth of petrol at low cost that will crack: all helps to make increasingly anachronistic is the huge V8 dear to the American engineering philosophy, and the bulky cars welcome in the boot. It awards the dimensional and ecological way taken by the first Japanese cars fought but comfortable, efficient engines, which combine reasonable consumption and good performance, advanced technology at the service of security.

Wawel cathedral

Cathedral

On the Wawel hill, with its 1000 years of history, stands Wawel cathedral, the most important Church in Poland, a sacred place which was also the cathedral of Pope John Paul II before he left for the Vatican. Here Polish kings have been crowned and buried and members of royal family, national heroes, poets, saints and bishops have their grave.
The Mausoleum of Saint Stanislav, Poland Saint Patron, stands in Wawel cathedral central nave, in a silver coffin dating around 1670 adorned with bas-reliefs.
In Wawel cathedral, a powerful symbol of the country’s history you will find 18 chapels full of art treasures like Sigismund Chapel, the Chapel of the Holy Cross, the impressive XV century sarcophagus of Hungarian red marble which contained king Vladislav II’s body, the cathedral’s oldest sandstone sarcophagus of King Vladislav I, also called the Short, dating back to the middle of XIV century, the Queen Saint Jadwiga’s sarcophagus, carved in Carrara white marble, the wooden choir stalls and St. Leonard’s Crypt.
This “Pantheon” has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and contain also a room dedicated to Marshal Pilsudski, the hero of Poland rebirth after World War I.

The charm of the oldest imperial town in Morocco: Fez

Imperial Town of Fez - Morocco

Fez is the oldest imperial town and the birthplace of the first Arab dynasty in Morocco.

You will be able to say that you have understood Fez only after having experienced its ancient Medina and its souqs: souq Dabbaghin, also called tanners’ quarter, souq Attarine to buy spices, perfumes and cosmetics or souq Tillisse, with its beautiful colored carpets are only a few examples of the Fez experience.
Of course Fez is not only its medina, but its Madrasas (Islamic schools) like Attarine, founded on the early XIV century, with its beautiful bronze door and elegant courtyard, the Kairouine mosque, which has been the centre of Islamic learning for over 1000 years. Bali, the oldest Fez quarter is still as it was in the old times, with streets too narrow for cars where only mules or donkeys can be used. Morocco gates are also worth being visited, like Bab Boujeloud, which although built only in 1913, is one of the most famous gates in the whole country.
Fez is a city that has remained almost unchanged through the years and it has been the political capital of Morocco for over 400 years and it houses the oldest university in the country.
Visit Fez if you want to live a true Moroccan experience!

Prague

The Czech Republic is European country, situated in the middle of the continent with no sea outlet. It is formed in 1993 after the split of Czechoslovakia. Czech Republic joined European Union in 2004^th. The capitol city is Prague, the population is 10.2 millions, the official language is the Czech language and the official currency is the Czech koruna (Euro is also well-accepted).

The capitol city Prague is among the most popular tourist destinations in Europe. The city is founded more than thousand years ago. Significant part of the buildings in the city is dated to be built some hundred years ago and nowadays they are still standing in their original appearance. Walking around the city buildings in Baroque, Gothic, Renaissance and other style can be seen.

The Prague Castle is a place where most of the styles represented in the city are combined. It is actually a complex, including palaces, temples and gardens, created by the different rulers during the ages. The famous Astronomical Clock is built in some phases, first dating 15^th century. The picturesque Charles Bridge, first crossing the river Vltava, dates from 1357^th.

Prague has a population of 1.2 million, but the hotels in the city are capable of accommodating more than half a million of tourists at a time. Hotels can be found everywhere around the city, variable in categories and prices, so staying at Prague is quite affordable. The closer you are to the main tourist attractions, the more expensive hotels are, but longer stay brings better prices.

Berlin

Berlin is the capitol city of Germany, situated in the northeastern part of the country. It is also one of the sixteen German states. The population is 3.4 millions, which makes it the largest city in Germany. Since 17^th century Berlin was a consecutive capitol of the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. When the city (and the country) was divided after World War Two, East Berlin remained the capitol of East Germany. After the fall of the Berlin’s Wall and the reunification of Germany Berlin has become the capitol of the whole country again.

Berlin is an important political, cultural and scientific center. Its economy is primarily based on the service sector and it’s the third most-visited tourist destination within the European Union. The city is well-known for its diverse architecture, the festivals and the nightlife, and the high standard of living.

The city center of Berlin lies along the Spree River. In western Berlin Spree flows into the river Havel which flows from north to south. The most famous monument in the city is the Brandenburg Gate, previously a part of the Berlin’s Wall that separated East and West Berlin for 40 years. The last existing parts of the Wall itself can be seen in the East Side Gallery. This is an open-air exhibition of art, painted right on the Wall. A remarkable structure is the Fernsehturm (TV Tower) at Alexanderplatz – the second highest building in Europe. Berlin is also home to 153 museums, more than 50 theatres and 2 zoos. The city is often a host to international sport, music and cinema events.

Staying at Berlin can satisfy every taste and every budget. The hotels in the city cover all categories range (1 to 5 stars). Being a constant tourist destination Berlin offers its guests hundreds of hotels and customer service at a high level.

Sofia

Bulgaria is a south-eastern European country, situated in the heart of the Balkan Peninsula. It shares border with Romania, Serbia, Republic of Macedonia, Greece and Turkey. On the east Bulgaria reaches the Black Sea. The population is about 7.7 millions, the official language is Bulgarian and the official currency is the Bulgarian lev. The capitol city is Sofia.

Sofia (former names Serdica and Sredets) is the largest city in Bulgaria. By the last census the population counted almost 1.5 million, but the city is rapidly growing. The history of Sofia can be traced down 7 thousand years ago. Right in the centre of the city, less than a hundred meters from the president quarters there are well-preserved wall from a Thracian settlement, dated 7^th century BC – also very close to a mineral spring, still functioning today.

The cultural wealth of Sofia includes not only archaeological remains, but also whole buildings, dated hundreds of years back in the history. One of the most famous and the oldest is the Boyana Church built in 10^th century. It is included in the UNESCO world heritage protected sites program. The sights of the city include large number of churches and temples, museums and monuments, marking historical events for the city and the country.

Staying at Sofia isn’t difficult to arrange. The biggest hotels in the city are placed in the centre, at short distances from the most visited places – the cultural monuments, mentioned above or congressional centers such as the National Palace of Culture. But if this sounds too noisy for you, alternative solutions are the hotel complexes in the skirts of the Vitosha Mountain where you can enjoy the nature in a calm atmosphere.

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