Travel Blog: Insider Tips, Recommendations, and more!
It’s done! I’m back from Porto now, after having hiked there all the way from Santiago. Well, there had been a few interruptions by car, metro and bus but they’re not worth mentioning. Before I will inform you here about general tips the costs and the route, here are first of all some impressions from my time on the not-so-traditional Camino de Santiago.
The Spanish coast, a castle, and beautiful Porto: the untraditional Way of St. James from Santiago to Porto.
I had discovered “Hot Dog Cold Beer” before my short trip to Budapest in autumn 2015. That small fast food restaurant serves first and foremost – as its name kind of gives away – hot dogs and beer, of course. But they do also offer some other creative fancy snacks like chips on a stick for example. Actually I am not that much into chips but I found that thing special enough to give it a try…
Chips on a stick at “Hot Dog Cold Beer” in Budapest.
The Picture of the Week is from Frankfurt, Germany.
Frankfurt: skyline view from the Leonardo Royal Hotel.
You wouldn’t meet a lot of tourists if you went and bought a ticket for the Emirates Air Line, which opened in 2012. Far off the touristic ho-hum-sports of London City there is this neat ropeway near the ExCel arena. Not many people find their way here outside the fair times. Ho bad for all of those who miss this wonderful part of London. Good for me as I do not like crowded places…
The Emirates Air Line at the o2 arena.
The Picture of the Week is this time from Helsinki, Finland.
View from the station square in Helsinki, Finland.
When the Queen had been staying in Germany I wasn’t there. But no, incidentally I was in Edinburgh when her annual Royal Garden Party was going on. After I had been wondering about all those nifty people in the city and mostly in the area around Holyroodhouse two nice ladies told me the Queen is in town – together with 8,000 invited guests who all made me feel like being at the horse run in the movie “My fair Lady”…
The Queen’s Royal Garden Party in Edinburgh, Scotland. Perhaps she is on this picture, too!
In Barcelona, like in many other cities, there are plenty of free walking tour guides. Free? Yes! These guided tours last for usually two or three hours and they’re absolutely free! Seriously? Yes! So, what’s the catch?
The Basilica de Santa Maria del Pi right behind the Travel Bar (meeting spot for the free walking tour).
