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A fun day in Venice
- the story of a guitar - What better place to cure muscle soreness than Venice? It not only has loads of amazing places, streets, corners, shops to explore, but also looots of bridges!
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10 things I learned while roadtripping to Mont Blanc
“Travel is the best teacher.” Together with some friends, I recently took a roadtrip to Mont Blanc. We climbed the highest peak in western Europe and then returned home through Venice 🙂 Here are the most important life lessons I’ve learned from this trip:
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The fortified church from Cisnădioara
I’ve always been fascinated by castles, fortresses and any other kinds of strongholds. I find it interesting to see how these evolved over time and how people found more and more ingenious ways of defending themselves against as ingeniously evolving siege weapons. I love discovering new ways of fortifying a place, both in terms of defensive structures, but also clever ways of allowing people to shoot, throw and use any other types of defensive mechanisms. Luckily, there are loads of such strongholds close to home. Transylvania is especially full of castles, citadels, fortified churches and strongholds. Of all these, I like the fortified churches the most. And this is how this series came to be 🙂
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Book review ~ Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know about Air Travel
- Irina
- Books
Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections by Patrick Smith “Nobody covers the airline experience like Patrick Smith. He brings balance and clarity to a subject all too often over-hyped. And, he’s a damned good writer.” ~ Clive Irving, Conde Nast Traveler
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Hiking in the snowy Ciucaș Mountains
Winter is my favourite season 🙂 And hiking in the mountains is one of my favourite activities! So a combination of these two is pretty close to perfection. In order to reach perfection, the weather has to be good and favor the best views! And that’s exactly how it was last weekend when I went on a trip to the Ciucaș mountains. Last time I was there, about a year ago, there was very little snow, unusually little for that time of year and the weather was foggy, so I barely saw anything around me for the best part of the hike.
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Hogmanay in Stonehaven
Hogmanay apparently is the Scots word for the last day of the year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year in the Scottish manner. I can’t really remember when I first heard about it, I just randomly stumbled upon it earlier last year. And, while looking for images from various Scottish cities, I noticed the one in Stonehaven. People hurling giant fireballs? Unique in the world? Well … I definitely had to see that. A big plus was also the fact that M lives in Aberdeen, only a few miles from Stonehaven. So there was no need for a better excuse for a short trip to Scotland 😀
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How does the temperature vary in the atmosphere?
I usually like travelling by plane … that is when I manage not to think about all the things that could go wrong 😛 Luckily I’ve recently read a really cool book on air travel, Cockpit confidential by Patrick Smith, which has helped reduce some of my worries. Apart from the images from TV with planes that break in half and people flying around, there are also lots of questions that pop into my head while high up in the clouds. Like how does the temperature vary in the atmosphere? This question popped into my head when I was watching on the screen that map that shows the route and a tiny plane that slooowly moves closer to the destination. The screen also showed the outside temperature of -50 degrees Celsius. After landing safely, instead of properly enjoying my holiday, I looked for a bit online and found an image with the way the temperature of the atmosphere varies depending on height. It looked something like this:
Read MoreFrank Herbert
- Irina
- Quotes
Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. ~ Frank Herbert
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A night in the Sahara
“Is it your first time here?” “In this moment, yes.” the berber replied. One of the highlights of the awesome trip to Morocco was the night spent in the desert. But before I start the story, you might want to get into the atmosphere by listening to some songs 🙂
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Djemaa el Fna
Djemaa el Fna is the central point of the medina (old city) in Marrakesh, Morocco. You can’t miss it! It’s a large open square where I bet you can find anyone and anything, from freshly squeezed orange juice to steamed sheep’s heads, from cobras dancing to flute music to a guy with a chicken on his head (a live one! … uhm … both the guy and the chicken that is 😛 ). But there’s a catch, you have to be there at the right time of day for each of the attractions! It sure changes a lot over the course of a day!
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