This is a follow-up in a more positive note than yesterday’s post Barcelona, the City I Won’t Visit Again. Sagrada Familia is a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926). The construction started in 1882 and it has not finished yet, the anticipated completion date being 2026…
Barcelona is the first city I will say I won’t visit again. No other city that I have visited in the past 20 years left me such a bad taste and it is a pity as it is a very beautiful city. It was sickening to see so many pick-pockets. Nothing has happened to…
I have to visit any aviation museum that is easily accessible from a city I am in, and when I visited Seattle some time ago I had to go to the ‘Museum of Flight’. What a pity Concorde does not fly any more. Did you know that here have been more U.S. astronauts than Concorde…
The Hotel Cornavin has the biggest mechanical clock in the world, with a total length of 30 meters; we are in Switzerland so somehow expected 🙂 but surprised it is still a world record, I would have thought the record would be somewhere in Asia or in the oil countries from the Middle East. However, this wasn’t the…
Chateau de Chillon is a must see place; no surprise it is ranked #2 of 16 attractions in Montreux on tripadvisor. Tip: With the Riviera Card the admission fee is CHF6 instead of the adult price CHF12. I did not know about this as this rate is not displayed at the castle’s entrance, I found out only…
The Chocolate Train was on my list and it already had been budgeted for 🙂 (198 CHF – around 208 USD for 2 tickets). The reviews on tripadvisor were very good (out of 27, 16 were excellent) … but I decided to read the not so good reviews and one drew my attention. Chocolate Train do…
The train to Rochers-de-Naye departs every hour from Montreux station and it takes some 55 minutes. If you stay at a hotel in Montreux you will get a free travel card (Montreux Riviera Card) that covers buses and trains as well so for the trip you need to pay only for the distance that is outside of the…
This concludes my series about Munich, Geneva to follow (hope I will find the time, to be read ‘I won’t procrastinate for too long’). Munich in 3 Days Munich 2 – Deutsches Museum Munich 3 – Dachau, ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ Munich 4 – BMW Museum Munich 5 – ‘Englischer Garten’ Munich 6 – The Place…
It is a … tent. I was so curious to see it – and if I ever have to stay there I hope it will be for fun and not financial reasons 🙂 – and take the customarily photos that the Tent made the list of what to see in Munich the moment I read about…
The Englischer Garten (German for “English Garden”) is one of the world’s largest urban public parks, larger than New York’s Central Park. If you come to Munich this park is a must see, best at the end of the day to relax in one of the 4 beergardens in the park: Chinesischer Turm (Chinese tower), Seehaus, Osterwald…