True Adriatic Riviera Resort Indeed. Herceg Novi.
I arrived in Herceg Novi at sunset. The taxi from the Dubrovnik airport in the neighbouring Croatia set me back by €50. Although some drivers wanted €60! At 8 o'clock in the evening, there were no other sensible options and the airport had no information... more - travel report by
krisek
Summer resort with an old city for a gem. Budva.
Budva welcomed me with so much rain that it could be mistaken for the tropics. It bucketted continuously for hours. On such a day, walking about the city trying to discover its qualities was a challenge. However, the old town, complete with a castle and a... more - travel report by
krisek
What else can be said about Dubrovnik?
Eleven years ago, when I first ventured to Dubrovnik, it was charming and sufferable. Few groups wandered about the old town, but it was manageable. The Croatians were preocupied with their performane in the Football's World Cup, as their team was doing r... more - travel report by
krisek
Darlingon - A Place Far From London!
Darlington, about 2.5 hours by train from London, once was a great city with the most vibrant market in Northern England, and ... the cheapest pub in the country where pint of beer was £0.70, whilst the average price in England was £2! I would not put Dar... more - travel report by
krisek
A tiny republic famous for its castles and stamps.
San Marino was founded on 3 September 301 by Marinus of Rab, therefore long, long after the democracies of Athens, other ancient Greek and Roman cites, which expanded to the size of countries. San Marino did no expand that much. It is a small piece of lan... more - travel report by
krisek
And what would Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart say?!
I was doubtfully lucky to be a witness to a musical festival, or rather a young musical talent review event in Salzburg called 'Music belebt, Music bewegt'. A few bands formed of teenagers presented their musical skills on small stages pitched across the... more - travel report by
krisek
Edinburgh – and Rugby (work out the connection)
My son had arranged a weekend in Edinburgh with some fellow Rugby League enthusiasts. I shall give a brief description of the main differences between the two forms of Rugby in a later section but one strange fact is that Rugby League has no major followi... more - travel report by
davidx
The Hometown of Raphael Sanzio
Every few people here who has a little bit knowledge of art will not feel strange to Raphael Sanzio, the great italian painter and architect of the Renaissance, who together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci forms the so-called traditional trinity o... more - travel report by
yuliangpang
Moules Mariniere et des frites
Brussels is made up of 19 communes forming one of the three regions of the federal Belgian state and is the capital of the Kingdom of Belgium withand a population of just over 2 million.
Brussels is also the European capital the city as it is home... more - travel report by
mistybleu
Assisi-My 11th Report on Via Flaminia
Assisi brought me back to the well-known Poem in China, An Eulogy to My Humble House by Liu Yuxi (772-842) in Tang Dynasty, which is considered as one of the masterpieces of Tang Poetry and is nationwidely adopted by the testbook for the Chinese middle sc... more - travel report by
yuliangpang
