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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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AUSTRIA: Stift Göttweig, the austrian Montecassino

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Stift Goettweig is a great monastery in a distance of 10km south of Krems an der Donau. From Krems you can take a bus in order to get there !Stift Goettweig is one of the largest and most beautiful monasteries in Austria and it makes a great place for an excursion from Vienna, unfortunately you will need a car to get there !Stift Goettweig was founded in the year 1083 by the bishop of Passau, holy Altmann - he is buried in the krypta under the basilica.At that time Passau was the largest diocese in the area and it included also towns like Vienna, and the bishop of Passau was also the bishop of Vienna.Stift Goettweig - the way it looks today - dates back to the year 1739, when it was rebuilt after a fire by the famous architect Johann Lucas von Hildebrand.The highlights of architecture in Goettweig are the Kaisertrakt, Kaiserstiege with frescos by Paul Troger, the chambers of the emperor...

AUSTRIA: Graz

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Graz is the 2nd largest city of Austria, south of Vienna in a distance of about 2 hours by car or by train. Graz is a great daytrip from Vienna and a full day might also be enough for most of its attractions.My favorite sights of Graz are :1) The Grazer Uhrturm (belfry) is certainly the most famous sight of Graz and you will see it from many places all over the city. At first the Uhrturm was part of the fortification and got it's characteristic clock and the wooden balconies not before the year 1712.2) Landeszeughaus : it is one of the biggest collections of medieval arms and iron-armories in the whole world ! And the most interesting fact about this museum is , that the Zeughaus still looks the same as hundreds of years ago and it has a total of 30.000 rifles, helebards, swords, guns, etc.You could equip a medieval army of several hundred men with these weapons and even the stairs are...

AUSTRIA: Radetzky & the famous White Horses

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Kleinwetzdorf is in the north-west of Vienna and it is a great daytrip for tourists who are interested in Austrian History because Kleinwetzdorf and the Heldenberg (hill of heros) is the place, where Feldmarschall Radetzky is buried.Josef Gottfried Pargfrieder was a rich and weathly merchant, who delivered most of his goods to the austrian army. He became a good friend of Feldmarschall Radetzky and his friend Feldmarschall von Wimpffen and offered them a special place to be buried : the "Heldenberg" (the hill of heros). Radetzky at the other hand did not enough money for a nice place to be buried, so he agreed about Heldenberg and now his remains are down in the tomb below the obelisk, next to Pargfrieder and von Wimpffen.After the death of Radetzky Pargfrieder tried to sell Heldenberg for 1 million Kronen to the emperor, who did not want to have it, so Pargfrieder, who did not have a...

RUSSIA: Votkinsk, birthplace of Tchaikovsky

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Votkinsk is about 900km east of Moscow and close to the town called Tchaikovsky. Votkinsk is the birthplace of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He also spent the first 8 years of his life there, before his parents moved first to Moscow and later to St. Petersburg.Take a guided tour through the Tchaikowski-museum, it seems to be the only way to see all the exhibits. Our guide was speaking an excellent german and there will be also guides speaking english and other languages and I had the feeling that in every room there was an extra guide, closing the doors after the tour-groups and making sure nobody was left behind.In case that you want to take some photographs, there will be an extra-charge, it was 200 Rubles (around 6 Euros) and the way this was handled gave me the impression that all of that money went directely to the guides instead of to the museum.There was no radio or TV at that time...

RUSSIA: Ostrov Solovetskiy, the "Archipel Gulag"

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Ostrov Solovetskiy is an island in the White Sea, close to Archangelsk.Whatever you read about "Archipel Gulag" , the famous book tells the story of this remote island that was once built as a monastery and turned into one of the most horrible prison-camps of russian history.We got there as a fullday-trip from the end of Belomorsk-canal, at first 3 hours in a horrible bus on terrible roads and then another hour by ship to the islands, but it was really worth all the trouble.This monastery is really impressive, the walls around the monastery built of giant natural rocks and a lot of great antiques and works of art in its museums and churches.

RUSSIA: Perm

by globetrott

Perm is in a distance of 1130km east of Moscow and I was lucky to be able to spend 2 days there before I started my cruise to Moscow from there.The big mosque of Perm is in my opinion one of the most interesting sights of Perm, but when we made the official tour through Perm we saw it just from a large distance of maybe 200 meters, while sitting in the bus. In the afternoon I went back to see it again and I can simply recommend you to do so as well.Dont forget to take a look into the innercourt of the mosque otherwise you will miss some interesting details of the great local architecture. There are 2 gates, where you can enter this public area and take a closer look at it !The church with the 5 golden domes in my 2nd and 3rd picture is without doubt one of the most beautiful churches of Perm. This is another sight that will not be shown by the official sightseeingtours, so I went there...

RUSSIA: Nizhniy Novgorod

by globetrott

Nizhniy Novgorod is about 400 km east of Moscow and I got there on my cruise from Perm to Moscow.The Romanoff Church is in a distance of just 200 meters from the cruiseport and it looks great already from outside and it was obviously also restored quite recently. The church is still used by the russian Orthodox church so you will hardly ever find a time, when you can enter it like a museum. A service was going on while we were there, but the local people seemed to be used to see lots of tourists there, so it was also no problem to take some photographs !The belfry of the Romanoff church is something that you might easily oversee, because you will not see it from the street, you actually have to step up a steep hill in order to take the photos from the place, where I did. The belfry is placed next to the church and it is also the only place to enter the church.The Chkalovskaya stairs is...

RUSSIA: Kazan / Kasan

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Kazan / Kasan is 790km from Moscow and in quite a distance from the ordinary tourist-streams in Russia and I was glad to get there during my cruise from Perm to Moscow. In my 1st picture: The Kul-Shariff Mosque of Kazan is a modern mosque that was built inside the Kremlin of Kazan just a few years ago. There used to be a mosque already in medieval times at this place, but it was destroyed by the troops of Ivan IV.You are allowed to enter the mosque and most members of our group did, BUT all of your belongings will be scanned like at the airport , when you want to go inside, and I did not want to remove all of my batteries and other photo-equipment, just in order to see a modern mosque.Photography is NOT allowed inside anyway !You dont have to take off your shoes, BUTwill get plasic-bags to cover the shoes !My 2nd - 4th pics: The church of St.Peter and St.Pavel in Kazan looks quite unique...

RUSSIA: Ivanovo

by globetrott

Ivanovo was totally off-limits for tourists before 1989, because it has a large military airport, but I came to this place in 2008 for a "A technical Stop" during a dayexcursion to Suzdal. This funny expression is used by most russian tourguides, when they are making a short stop for people who need to powder their noses...So we had about 20 minutes to take some photos around the train-station and I could also take some photos from the bus, while we were driving through town. There are a lot of interesting buildings in Ivanovo, some of the typical old wooden buildings are still to be found in the city-centre.Opposite of the trainstation we also saw an impressive monument for Olga Genkina, a woman of the revolution, she was a revolutionary who was killed in November of 1905, after the police had found revolvers and patrons in her luggage at the train station.Now we would call her a...

RUSSIA: Kalyazin & a belfry in the water

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When taking a cruise between St. Petersburg and Moscow you will see something in Kalyazin that you will never forget for sure: an old belfry standing in the water !Kalyasin is a town of 14.500 inhabitants, 30 km west of Uglitch, directely at the river Volga.The belfry of Kalyasin is the only remain of a part of the town that was totally flooded in order to build an artificial lake for a power-plant there back in 1940.The belfly of the former Nikolski-cathedral was standing on a small hill, so it could survive and nowadays it makes a great landmark for all ships passing by on their way to Moscow. You will pass by there some hours before arriving in Moscow.The giant telescope is another attraction of Kalyazin, but unfortunately it is in quite a distance from the river Wolga and most probably it is top-secret anyway.Before getting to Kalyazin you will also pass by some other interesting...

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