I’ve recently spent some time in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (aka Benelux), but I never imagined that after visiting my beloved Amsterdam or pretty Bruges, the first post I write from this trip will be about the tiny city…
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In exactly one week France is celebrating their national day, La Fête Nationale, more commonly known as Bastille Day. Commemorating the beginning of the French Revolution, it is always celebrated on July 14 throughout the whole country, culminating with an…
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Have you ever visited a city in Europe without passing by a magnificent cathedral? It seems unlikely, since there are over 1000 cathedrals all over the continent, one more beautiful than the other. The author Robert Louis Stevenson once said…
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That time of year has finally come. The time when you decorate trees, buy presents, sing carols, drink mulled wine, make lists and ponder upon the year that’s about to end. Now that Christmas has passed, the tree is decorated,…
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“Is there such a thing as a place that’s off the beaten path in Paris?” – this is the question I kept asking myself while reading blogs about Paris, prior to my trip. The short answer? No, there isn’t. The…
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We have visited Paris during the most crowded week of the year and there was only one reason for this: we wanted to experience the celebrations on Bastille Day, known in France as La Fête Nationale. Although I had an…
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Around January, I got an email from a traveling agency, about their offer of double city breaks. I was intrigued, yet the idea of spending only two days in one city and two days in another city didn’t sound appealing…
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This blog post is for my mom. I gave the Paris trip I took in 2009 many aliases: “how it all begun”, “the first time I was on a plane”, “losing my travel-virginity”, “oh my god, it’s Mickey Mouse”. But…
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