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Montmartre & Sacré Coeur Paris

73 Reviews After our ceremonies we were given a private tour of the Sacre Couer, Place du Tertre, and private places by Mayor Yatt. It was such a lovely and memorable morning. If anyone is interested in doing...

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Daytrip outside Amsterdam: Volendam / Edam / Marken / Monnickendam Amsterdam

31 Reviews If you are looking to spend a day outside Amsterdam to see Dutch landscape and traditional villages, probably the best choice is to take a trip to villages Edam, Volendam and Marken. All of them are...

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Outside Rome Rome

130 Reviews Regional trains are actually pretty affordable in Italy. If you're planning to make a one-day trip outside of Rome, go to the Trenitalia site and see for yourself! You can go to Florence from 14.31...

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Day Trip: Montserrat Barcelona

52 Reviews An hour by train from Barcelona is the impressive Montserrat. From the train station at Espana, you can buy the round trip tickets that include both the train and the cable car for around 18E. The...

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Back Street Canals Venice

123 Reviews People are always saying "part of the charm of Venice is just wandering and getting lost." Well...I do agree with the wandering part but have a solution for the "getting lost" part. I found a...

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excursions from Vienna Vienna

71 Reviews Taking a boat from Vienna to Budapest is by far and away the best way of making the trip. The hydrofoil is quiet, smooth, uncrowded and has a top speed of 100 km/h. The route on Danube offers you to...

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Outside Berlin Berlin

32 Reviews I'ts a trip to dispair. You can see the quiet within the madness that a concentration camp used to be. The place around looks so peaceful it's hard to believe the horrors that went on in there. Take a...

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Howth Dublin

35 Reviews I saw this place at all possible weather conditions. My favourite thing about it - well, there is a hill there which you have to climb. Once on top of it you can see the sea on one side, Dublin on...

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Vysehrad Prague

52 Reviews Within the northern Cihelna Gate (Brick) gate is a discreet sign pointing to a doorway at the side, very easy to miss unless you are looking for it! Inside you are greeted by a small exposition and...

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Daytrips Madrid

73 Reviews About one hour north of Madrid a high cross in the mountains of Guadarrama signs the location of this fascist monument to the death of civil war, in a place called Valle de los Caidos. Why not? We...

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Tours & Walks Brussels

71 Reviews A meeting with a Brussels Greeter is a free of charge opportunity to get a unique and personal insight into the city. Your Greeter will take you to unusual and often hidden places that are off the...

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Christiania Copenhagen

14 Reviews Years ago when WWII soldiers abandoned there "houses" near the river some hippies went to live there. And other hippies came and it is now a big hippy comuna just in the city. I have never seen...

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Dachau and Dachau Concentration camp Munich

22 Reviews Being a history major, I had been interested in seeing things from the other side. I met up on the bus to the site with a tour guide who was in training and they were trying to gather people for a...

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Day trips: Sintra, Cascais, Alcochete... Lisbon

55 Reviews If you ever come to Lisbon you must go to Sintra. It's an amazing place, far from all the city problems, where you can relax in its marvelous nature, stroll around the beautiful and historic city...

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Skärgården (Stockholm Archipelago) Stockholm

21 Reviews Sometimes I just crave for instant nature. One of my favorite bus-trips goes from Slussen to Björkviks brygga. The bus takes you there in about an hour. At Björkvik there are nice bare cliffs or...

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The Lake District: Como, Maggiore, Iseo, Lugano ... Milan

21 Reviews The city of Como on the shores of Lake Como is an easy day trip from Milan - a 45 minute train journey from Milano Cadorna station, with trains running regularly throughout the day and late into the...

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Gazi Factory Athens

6 Reviews An old gas factory made by some industrial buildings, is now a live industrial museum. This factory, once closed was gradually transformed into a versatile cultural centre and now it hosts several...

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Monuments & Landmarks Moscow

49 Reviews Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery was founded in 1380 in the village of Vysokoye by Prince Dmitry Donskoi after his return from the Battle of Kulikovo. This site was once occupied by the ancient...

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The Sibelius Monument Helsinki

12 Reviews This monument was created to honour the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). The designer of the monument was Eila Hiltunen. This monument (called 'Passio Musicae') was one of the first...

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Many Miles From Edinburgh... Edinburgh

58 Reviews There were several bonny sections of gorse, as pictured, near where we started, at Flotterstone. This is about 7 miles/11km south from the centre of Edinburgh. There is a small visitor centre here,...

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Pedestrian tunnel Antwerp

13 Reviews This is worth mentioning as well. There are two flights of escalators to reach the tunnel. Though they are still steep and very long. No wonder the escalator system were built to descent the height...

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Nearby Towns or Villages. Brugge

22 Reviews In Brugge, I rented a bike and followed an easy route to the Netherlands. The path was next to the tree-lined Damme canal with the occasional windmill and small town on the side - there was even a pub...

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Buildings, streets... Warsaw

32 Reviews This kiosk with newspapers adjacent to Church of the Holy Spirit (Paulite Church) in the New City is the smallest house in Warsaw. Local law says that only seperate houses have own numbers and this...

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Parks, Statues & Memorials Tallinn

9 Reviews My granddaughter went up into this park which was near the Viru Gate and took some photos of some of the statues there. It is a park in Tallinn City Center which has a statue dedicated to a famous...

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Salford Quays/Lowry/War Museum Manchester

6 Reviews The Lowry is a brand new arts complex with galleries, a huge theatre and eateries. the visual look of the building is stunning as well. Unfortunately the day i saw it, the sky was gun metal gray and...

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a place in Germany for all Hundertwasser - fans

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Abensberg is a small town between Regensburg & Ingolstadt in Bavaria / Germany and its most interesting sight might be a tower that was built by the austrian painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser next to a local brewery. The Hundertwasser - Turm / Hundertwasser - tower is only about 35 meters high, although the plans of the architects had been first a tower 70 meters high. But then bureaucacy started to fight against it, because the churchtower was just 50 meters high and so on and so forth...The only way to step up that tower is by a guided tour through the brewery that ends at the tower and will include also a glass of beer and a Brezel, that you can enjoy in the beergarden right under the tower. The rest of the town is interesting as well, when you like to see baroque houses and some remains of the medieval townwalls.Click on my link below and read more about it in my Abensberg-page !

AUSTRIA: Historama, a museum of transportation

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Historama is the name of a great museum of transportation in the south of Austria, in Ferlach.This wonderfull collection is not only for cars, but also for old trams,trains, buses and trucks plus some other technical achievements like steam-machines and old industrial machineries. You will find this museum inside an old production-hall and some of the old post-buses of the museum will take you from the station of Ferlach to the museum on a regular basis. from that station there is also a museum-steamtrain leaving every day in summer ! The car-collection of this museum includes a lot of unique cars of Austrian productions - there are lots of photos in the travelogues of my Ferlach-page !----------------------------------------------Historama is open for visitors in 2010: July 3rd till Sept. 12thTue-Fri: 01.00-05.00pm, Mondays its closedSat & Sun: 11.00am-06.00pmSept 19 + Sept. 26th is...

AUSTRIA : Minimundus in Klagenfurt

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Minimundus in Klagenfurt is a great place to visit for the whole family ! You will find Minimunds at the west-end of Klagenfurt, in the very south of Austria, combine it with a visit of Italy or Slovenia !In Minimundus you will see a lot of great buildings from all over the world, plus various different types of small trains and even a model of the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn running through these artificial landscapes, you can spend the whole day there and enjoy this interesting place. They even have a small-scale space-shuttle starting at least once an hour, that was great !---------------------------------------------daytickets are 12 euros (or 6 euros for holders of the Kärntencard !)Familycards are 26 euros !Minimunds is open for visitors from April 2nd till October 26th in 2010:April & October 09.00am - 06.00pmMay, June & September 09.00am - 07.00pm July & August 09.00am - 08.00pm and...

GERMANY: Hofzug of ("mad") King Ludwig II

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This might be the most beautifully decorated train that you have ever seen, the Hofzug of ("mad") King Ludwig II of Bavaria and you will find it in the Verkehrsmuseum in Nuernberg.The wagon of the king had a golden crown on top and the inside was decorated with wonderful paintings and golden chairs and tables, even the columns of the platform had decorations with Ludwigs crown and an "L" for Ludwig. . The train had a total of 8 wagons, including 2 wagons for the kitchen and an open wagon, that the king used as a terrace. King Ludwig often used also ordinary trains, because he enjoyed travelling incognito as well.Verkehrsmuseum Bahn & Post is one of my favorite train-museums, mainly because they have the unique train for "mad" King Ludwig II of Bavaria, another "royal" wagon of Fuerst Bismarck and a good collection of other trains and historic background-infos.In case that you come...

NORWAY: Vardø - the northernmost fortress

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Vardöhus Festnig in Vardø is the northernmost fortress on earth. This tiny village is one of the ports of the Hurtigruten-ships and when-ever they will get there during the southbound cruise from Kirkens to Bergen someone will wait there at the port and walk with you to that old fortress, so you will not miss it and will be able to make the best out of the short stay of just 60 minutes in Vardoe.The entrancefee is 30 NOK, that is just about 3 euros and you have to throw the money into a former bomb next to the entranceThere is an interesting museum inside of Vardoehus festnig and it is showing old uniforms, documents and my favorite exhibit there was the winter-cannon, fixed on a sled instead of wheels. There is a small souvenir-shop in that museum as well and most of the exhibits are explained with norwegian, english and german inscriptions !The walls of Vardoehus festning are not...

IRELAND - Great Skelligs & Skellig Michael

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Skellig Michael is an island , about 5 miles off the Irish coast at the famous "Ring of Kerry".You will see its steep silhouettes when you drive along the coastroad of the Ring of Kerry and small boats will take you there for fullday-tours, leaving at Valentina Island or from Waterville.Monks used to live there on this island plenty of centuries ago and you can still see the remains of their huts and a small cemetary.Go INSIDE the beehive huts - hopefully equipped with a candle and have a look for the poor or simply non-existing interior and imagine, what the monk's life was like.Have a look for the churchyard-crosses, some of them have nice carvings, made by the simple means that were to be found in the early days of this monastery.Monks lived here for 600 years untill about 1200 A.D. and of course their main purpose was not to produce great works of art, BUT live a simple life without...

GERMANY: a great Carmuseum in Ammerang/Bavaria

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Amerang is a tiny village close to the Chiemsee in Bavaria and also close to the small town Wasserburg am Inn !The Carmuseum in Ammerang is one of the very best collections of cars made in GERMANY ! You will even find some very rare and unique exhibits there of old cars and quite new racingcars like the Porsche 959, once in the ordinary edition (only 200 of them were built at all) and one of the 4 existing Porsche 959 in the racing-edition for the Ralley Paris-Dakar.You will find a total of 220 cars there from the time between 1886 and recent years.http://www.efa-automuseum.de/In 2011 the museum is open from April 1st till November 7thfor other years, read their webpage !open daily except Mondays from 10am till 06.00pm, entry untill 05.00pmentrancefee is 8 euros------------------------------------------------------The Bauernhausmuseum - a museum of old farmhouses - is not far from the...

AUSTRIA: Forchtenstein castle, close to Vienna

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Forchtenstein castle does not look very special from outside, BUT it is a perfect daytrip from Vienna for people, who are interested in rare works of art and the history of the Esterhazy-family.Inside of Burg Forchtenstein you will find 3 different museums:1) The "Ahnengallerie" that is a collection of great paintings of the most important members of the family-tree of the Esterhazy-Clan and in addition you will see great exhibits like ornate clocks, the silver-room, great furniture etc.Invest another 1 Euros for the small booklet that will give you the ONLY infos you will get about these exhibits !!! Nothing will be explained in that museum, except that you find the numbers, where to find the infos in that booklet !You can visit that part of Burg Forchtenstein on your own !or by guided tour Mon-Fri 12.30 + 02.30 p.m.Sat+Sun+Holidays: also at 10.30+11.30+01.30p.m.--- --- ---2)The...

AUSTRIA: a church by F. Hundertwasser

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Hundertwasserkirche in Baernbach bei Köflach is an important sight for all fans of Hundertwasser's architecture : It is the only church worldwide, that was decorated by Hundertwasser. The original church was quite poor and built in 1948, shortly after WW II.The interior is quite simple, made by other artists, Hundertwasser made mainly the facades and the church-tower.The churchtower is my favorite part of Hundertwasserkirche in Baernbach. Take a closer look for the fine details in the decorations. Friedensreich Hundertwasser was born in december 15th, 1928 as Friedrich Stowasser. His mother was jewish and 69 members of her family were deported and killed by the Nazis. Between 1938 and 1945 he became member of the HJ / Hitlerjugend in order to protect his mother and in fact he was able to.The Prozessionsweg (procession-path) around the church was Hundertwassers idea and so he had built 12...

AUSTRIA: Burg Kreuzenstein

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Burg Kreuzenstein is an interesting daytrip from Vienna, as it is just 20km north of the city. It looks much older that it is in reality : It was built between 1874 and 1906 at the same place, where a castle was built already in the 12th century, but that castle was detroyed during the 30-year-war and only a few parts of that castle were used to build the castle that you will see nowadays.When you click on this link you will be able to click through lots of pics of the interesting architecture of that castle.You can visit the castle only by guided tour !Kreuzenstein castle is open for visitors daily from 10.00a.m. till 04.00p.m.plus at sundays during "official summertime" (amtl. Sommerzeit)it is open untill 05.00p.m. (thats the time after the clock was changed in spring)Adults pay 8 Euros / children 6-16 pay 4,50 eurosFotography and Video are forbidden inside !When you like to go from...

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