Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, popped up on my radar via a Brussels Airlines promo. Of course I had already seen hundreds of photos from Lake Bled and it’s famous Church Island on social media, but rarely photos of the Slovenian capital. In the IT world they often say “Google is your best friend”, so I went looking for more information about this, at least for me, fairly unknown city. What turned out? It seemed like an interesting weekend destination…
An overview shot from the city of Ålesund in Norway, as seen from the Aksla viewing point. Pity about the bad weather though.
With the speed of a steam train, the Christmas season is approaching again … or to get into the atmosphere “at the speed of a reindeer”. In the weeks before Christmas, Christmas markets pop up like mushrooms everywhere. However, if you really want to get into the Christmas mood, there are rarely better places on this globe than the village of Røros in Norway. I visited this idyllic place 2 years ago and would like to tell you more about…
Similar to 2018, me and a friend visited the north of Norway again early past December. Our final stop was of course, Tromsø. I had another amazing stay there, with daytrips to beautiful Lyngen, a visit to the most northern distillery Aurora Spirit and … I finally managed to get a glimps of the amazing northern lights. Since I was travelling with a friend from the Belgian/Flemish Jumpseat.be travel blog, I wrote an article about my stay in Tromsø on…
I had been to Riga several times in the past, visiting a dear friend, but never actually made it to any of the other Baltics. The cities of Tallinn and Vilnius were both still on my bucket list. Why? I don’t really have a reason, although both being former Soviet countries, could of course be one trigger, people telling me I had to visit once, another. So when I was able to book a cheap return flight to Vilnius mid-March,…
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