Spend a night in Dubai’s Atlantis The Palm

Dubai’s Fabulous Atlantis The Palm Hotel is already an amazing sight from the distance. Up close it’s hard to believe the thing is even real. This extravagantly luxurious resort hotel on Dubai’s man-made island of Palm Jumeirah is certainly a one-of-a-kind place which must bee seen to be believed.

Unusual architecture to say the least, the [...]

Barcelona’s bustling Mediterranean atmosphere is waiting for you

Just a mere 100 miles south of the Pyrenees on the Mediterranean, beautiful Barcelona is the proud capital the same-named province and the even prouder autonomous community of Cataluña. Madrid lies some 300 miles to the south and Barcelona, with its Mediterranean atmosphere and metropolitan sophistication, is in a way the Spanish capital of the [...]

Come visit Fredrich the Great’s Sansouci in Potsdam

One of the most significant architectural monuments in Potsdam near Berlin, and the best known icon for the city of Potsdam itself, Sansouci Palace is said to to be the German rival of Versailles.

Just a quick forty minute S-Bahn ride from Potsdamer Platz in downtown Berlin, Brandenburg”s beautiful green capital of Potsdam is an inviting [...]

Germany’s Peenemünde offers a fascinating glimpse the history of rocketry

During World War II, the small German town of Peenemünde on the island of Usedom became home to the high-tech center for research and testing of the infamous unmanned V2 (“blockbuster”) and the V1 (“buzz bomb”) guided missiles. Located directly on the Baltic coast near the border between Germany and Poland, Peenemünde was the place [...]

Gibraltar is a rocking place, even without the rock

On the one hand seemingly a perfectly normal British city filled with Guinness pubs, colonial style houses and fish and chips restaurants, Gibraltar’s steep steps, hot Saharan winds and many Indian, Senegalese and Moroccan residents also give it the touch of a modern version of Hollywood’s Casablanca.

Some 30,000 Gibraltarians live on Britain’s last European colony [...]

Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum

Now ten years old, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has contributed in turning the city of Bilbao completely around, both economically as well as culturally. Once considered a gray and recession-plagued industrial city, Spain’s Bilbao was thought to be anything other than a fun place to see a fantastic collection of art. But ten years ago, [...]

Italy’s Mezzogiorno is well worth the visit

The Abruzzo region is considered by many Italy fans to be the most beautiful area in all of Italy’s Mezzogiorno or southern region. Don’t miss the opportunity to get a look at this handful of beautiful towns and you will see what they mean.

Just 70 miles east of Rome, Italy’s rugged and mountainous Abruzzo region [...]

Mumbai, Bollywood and the gateway to India

A beautiful group of seven merged islands off India’s west coast, Mumbai (the former Bombay) is India’s commercial and entertainment capital. Home to the country’s famous Bollywood Hindi film and television industry and a major financial center, Mumbai attracts migrants from all over the Indian subcontinent and one of the major driving forces behind the [...]

What do the Spanish coast and Manhattan have in common?

Not much, really, except Benidorm. A small Spanish fishing village on the Costa Blanca just some fifty years ago, this popular resort city is now one of the biggest tourist attractions in Spain and boasts a skyline that reminds one of New York City at times.

A major success story for the Spanish tourism industry, its [...]

Romantic Weimar is a major cultural capital

A lot more happened in Weimar than the ill-fated Weimar Republic. That turbulent era in Germany between 1919 and 1933 perhaps being the first thing that comes to mind, Weimar holds for Germans a much more significant historical meaning. Weimar’s so-called golden age refers the “Weimar classic” period in which Goethe wrote Faust and Schiller [...]