Travel blog

the secret of Bucharest’s charm

Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is a shifting, disconcerting city with the provincial calm of sunlight-spattered streets, lined with secret gardens, town houses and small domed churches that look like cakes of brick sprout. It is also a dispersed city- an urban rift created by the megalomania of Ceausescu. The center of the city is [...]

Rainbow Parade 2009

Flashy, colorful and open-minded...that was Vienna’s motto on July 4th, 2009 when the 14th Rainbow Parade took place in the streets of 1st district, the Ring Boulevard, one of the most exclusive and most beautiful streets of Vienna, which is on this special day staged as ‘the Street of Republic’. Every year, since its first [...]

Spending a day on top of San Francisco for free

How to get the best views of San Francisco - for free

A Queen’s Day like never before…

Year after year the townsfolk of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba celebrate on April 30th (or on April 29th if the 30th is a Sunday) a very unique and joyous day, universally known as the Queen’s Day. Queen’s Day History Originally intended by the Liberal Union to be a day of national unity [...]

The Rainbow Parade in Vienna

The 13th Rainbow Parade for gay rights took place in Vienna Saturday the 12th of July 2008. The colourful parade was followed by about 120,000 spectators that were fascinated by the crazy and creative costumes that about 48 groups presented on their way to the Heldenplatz were a huge celebration took place after the end of the parade. The parade was not all about partying and fun, but participants also called for discrimation against gay people to stop as well as for gay marriage to be allowed. Also a minute's silence was held for those who died of AIDS due to their sexual preferences.

New York City – Rockefeller Center

Welcome to the ‘city within a city’ – Rockefeller Center. The project started with the intention to build a new opera for the Metropolitan Opera but was changed due to the drop out of the Metropolitan after the stock market crash in 1929. John D. Rockefeller Jr. stated “It was clear that there were only [...]

Bellagio Hotel Las Vegas

The Las Vegas Strip is popular all over the world for its glamorous hotels and casinos. The Bellagio Hotel Las Vegas is one of the most elegant complexes and was inspired by the Lake Como resort of Bellagio in Italy. Gambling, entertainment, dining and accommodation are first class at the five diamond establishment. The hotel [...]

Las Vegas – Cirque du Soleil

The astounding Cirque du Soleil is a world famous acrobatic act… and still so much more. If you have an image of an old time circus with clowns and acrobats, be prepared for a shock. Cirque du Soleil has all this and much more but in a form that you have never seen before. With [...]

Las Vegas – The MGM Grand

MGM has a long and glorious tradition as an entertainment company. After its foundation by Marcus Loew in 1924 it became on of the leading film studios in Hollywood. MGM was always known for having a large variety of stars and also of putting them in one big movie like “Grand Hotel” in 1932 with [...]

181 places I’ve been to

Just today I installed the “visited places” app in Facebook and after 1,5 hours of clicking around like being crazy I found 181 places I’ve already been to in my life… WOW.. that’s more than 6 diff. places per year I live… Very heavy crowded in Europe (obviously, alone 50+ places in Austria of course) [...]