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Eiffel Tower Paris
1075 Reviews The Eiffel Tower (French: la Tour Eiffel) is a monument in Paris and one of the most visited attractions in France. He stands on the left bank of the Seine in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The...
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Buckingham Palace. London
490 Reviews I've been there so many years ago, when everything was "great", "beautiful", "amazing"... and this was all I could say unfortunately :( I remember that I've been spending long minutes in front of that...
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Colosseum Rome
630 Reviews When visiting Rome its a must to go to the Colosseum. I can recall many times seeing it on tv and always saying it would be so cool to go and actually be there and touch it. Im somewhat of a history...
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Parc Guell Barcelona
429 Reviews Gaudi was employed by Guell, a wealthy businessman to design this park as part of a new garden suburb on the hill described as 'the treeless mountain.' And what a stunning creation. The park has...
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Churches Venice
403 Reviews This lovely little church filled with the heavy smell of incense is to be found just a few steps from the San Polo end of the famous Ponte Rialto. Allegedly, the first church to stand on this site...
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Schönbrunn Vienna
355 Reviews Take the whole day to visit this palace. It is big and has lots of things to explore. The Habsburgs really knew how to leave with style. A magnificent and imponent summer residence. Diferent kind of...
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Checkpoint Charlie Berlin
187 Reviews BERLIN ..I , like most who visit Berlin took a visit to Check point Charlie!!. I know it's the real touristy thing to do but I was very interested to see this site from the military point of view.....
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Kilmainham Jail Dublin
70 Reviews The tour of this gaol and its museum was the highlight of our trip to Dublin. Fascinating insight to the more recent Irish history and the struggles for independence. Our tour guide was fantastic -...
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Charles Bridge Prague
548 Reviews Probably Prague's most famous landmark, its construction started in 1357. It has several statues along its sides. None are original but they are still interesting. There are numerous artists and...
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Buda Castle (Budavar) Budapest
329 Reviews The Buda Castle in Budapest I. one part of town known as the Castle district. Since 1987, the UNESCO World Heritage List under the name Castle Hill is included. With a number of medieval monuments,...
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Plaza Mayor Madrid
173 Reviews we were in Plaza Mayor just at around 10 am when we noticed a small group milling around 2 young men and a woman. we found out that they were volunteer guides who do not charge a rate, but you may...
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Grand' Place & guild houses Brussels
427 Reviews Grote-Markt as this square is called in flamandian, is the greatest square of Bruxelles. At the origin of the city there was a bottom market which was the center of activity of a developing small...
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Tivoli Copenhagen
175 Reviews I didn't enter the Tivoli gardens. After reading review after review saying that it wasn't worth the money, I turned back after seeing the prices. Because not only do you have to pay almost 13 euros...
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Il Duomo - Santa Maria del Fiore Florence
331 Reviews The Florence Cathedral is the centerpiece of the city and has been for centuries. Built with grand ideas, it sat dome-less for nearly 100 years. The builders were sure that someone in the future...
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Dachau (Concentration Camp) Munich
80 Reviews "... so ich nicht nach Dachau komm." (Dear God, make me mute, so I don't get sent to Dachau). So went a common child's prayer during Nazi times. You dared not say anything remotely controversial,...
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Belém Lisbon
326 Reviews This building has become the symbol of Lisbon. It was built in 1515 as a fortress to guard the entrance to Lisbon's harbour. Many of the voyage of discoveries journeys left from here. The tower is...
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Gamla Stan (The Old Town) Stockholm
251 Reviews Sjöguden good time's sculpture is located on the wharf next to Räntmästartrappan in Old Town in Stockholm. A really unusual type of sculpture, not my style, but still interesting! The Sculptor, Carl...
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Duomo Milan
259 Reviews If you're going to Milan right now just to see the facade of the Duomo, you are going to be disappointed as its currently being renovated. (Note - renovations now complete) Don't be discouraged...
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Athens Acropolis Athens
437 Reviews The Temple of Erechtheum, built between 421 and 406 BC and possibly dedicated to the Greek hero, is not just another temple on the Acropolis; it is, in my opinion, the most beautiful of them all. The...
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Red Square Moscow
293 Reviews 16th century Place of execution (Lobnoe mesto). Any gude will tell you that but do not trust this information, please, because it's a prevailing MISTAKE... No one person was executed on this...
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Wawel Castle Krakow
362 Reviews Most likely the best know feature of Wawel Castle is its fire breathing dragon which sits below the castle walls along the edge of the Visla River and in front of its dragon CAVE. If you want to know...
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Kauppatori (Market Square & Market Hall) Helsinki
82 Reviews There was a Market on, great, I couldn't wait to have a look! I liked lots here, plenty of different things for sale, so different to "home!' Lots of very warm looking Furs, beautiful Capes, lots of...
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Vigelandsparken Oslo
152 Reviews The Vigeland Park is Oslo's largest park and it is home to more than 200 scuptures of the artist Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943). The sculptures illustrate all aspects of human life and emotions and...
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Arthur's Seat Edinburgh
48 Reviews If it's a nice day you might want to walk up to the top of Arthur's Seat (which I did on a previous visit two and a half years ago) to get some nice views of the city and the surrounding...
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Museum: Steen, Het/National Maritime Museum Antwerp
77 Reviews I must say Steen castle as it's known looks like a castle right out of a storybook... it now houses the Maritime Naval museum, unfortantely the day we were there it was closed.... but we were able to...
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Beautiful Rothenburg ob der Tauber was one of the hilights of our trip. I totally recommend you visit this stunning Medieval fully walled village....and if you can arrange to stay the night like we did, you really should.Rothenburg ob der Tauber at night is just gorgeous! Please have a look at my page here on the link below.Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Bad Wimpfen was absolutely beautiful! I totally recommend you visit here.Situated high up over looking the Neckar River and Valley below, Bad Wimpfen is a very old Medieval walled city with a unique blue tower. We enjoyed our wander along the lovely cobbledstone streets checking out heaps of beautiful tudar timber houses with cute colourful doors. Have a squiz on the link below.Bad Wimpfen
We chose Ettlingen rather than stay in larger Karlsruhe close by. Great choice! :o)Ettlingen is quaint with a lovely little river running through the centre and nice gardens. What made Ettlingen the most enjoyable was meeting Kathrin (Kathrin_E) and Christine (tini58de) who really made us feel most welcome. Our whole memory of Ettlingen is one of fun and laughter amongst beautiful surroundings :o) Please click the link below.Ettlingen
This is a place we could easily have spent more time in. The lake is just gorgeous and we enjoyed a bit of a wander around the nice gardens that line the lake.I would have loved to have had a bit of Black Forrest cake and a nice coffee in one of the cafes overlooking the lake. ....Oh well...next time :o)If you are driving through the Black Forrest, then you definately need to put Lake Titisee on your itinery! Check it out on the link below.Titisee
Have you ever stuck a pin on a map and said....let's go there? Well that was pretty much what we did when we ended up at Uberlingen. Uberlingen is located on the top end of Lake Constance so this incorporated a nice journey over the lake on the ferry.I'm glad that Birgit (bijo69) who joined us on our trip chose this pretty little place. Obviously us internationals don't know a lot of small towns so we didn't really know what to expect but we were pleasantly surprised.We drove through on a Sunday which probably wasn't a really good idea as it seems that every tom, dick, harry and the dog were in town :o) The place was a hive of activity and we had to park quite a way....but the whole experience was just lovely. Check it out on the link below.Uberlingen
Zurich was our first destination of our big Europe trip. Flying into Zurich over the Alps was awesome!! We found Zurich to be clean but also very expensive. I just loved the clocks here!...Something that we had been looking forward to......coming from Perth with our pathetic little chiming bell tower on the water front hahaaa :o) Our hilight in Zurich was a lovely day trip on the ferry to Raperswil. We chose a B&B in between the airport and the city which was a great choice and we totally recommend it. Zurich was a great choice to start our big journey. We picked up our hire car here and continued our journey through Germany.....next destination Lake Constance on the Switzerland/Germany border and a nice little town called Uberlingen.To check out our Zurich adventure and trip to Rapperswil, please click the link below.Zurich
The city of Pompeii along with Herculaneum was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in the year AD 79. The Downfall of Pompeii was centered on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.The eruption buried Pompeii under 4 to 6 m of ash and eruption that lasted two days, killed more than 10,000 people, it was lost for nearly 1700 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1749. Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire. I was a little child when I visited with my parents here.I do not remember correctly but I was quite impressed, and all the reading I did prior to the trip really made it more interesting.The people of Pompei were brilliant, and made some contributions during their day.
The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) plus Northern Ireland and lies between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea with the nearest neighbour being France which is situated 22 miles off the South-East coast. Queen Elizabeth the second is the head of state of the United Kingdom as well as of fifteen other independent Commonwealth countries. The UK's three major political parties are the Conservative Party, the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats.
Official Name: Kingdom of Belgium; Land Area: 11,786 square miles (30,528 square kilometers); Population: 10,431,447; Capital: Brussels; Largest City: BrusselsThe Manneken Pis is a fountain which represents a little boy urinating into the basin of the fountain, and it has become an iconic symbol of Brussels. The current Manneken Pis was sculpted in bronze by Jerôme Duquesnoy in 1619, but an earlier version in stone had been present as early as 1388. There is disagreement over who the Manneken Pis represents, but one of the favorite legends involves a boy named Juliaanske. When a foreign power was attacking Brussels in the fourteenth century, soldiers planted explosives to destroy some sort of barricade. The soldiers did not know that Juliaanske had been spying on them. After they lit the fuse, he urinated on it and saved the city. On occasion, the people of Brussels dress up the Manneken...
Official Name: Republic of Croatia; Land Area: 21,782 square miles (56,414 square kilometers); Population: 4,483,804; Capital: Zagreb; Largest City: ZagrebIn the summer of 1982, I passed through what was then northern Yugoslavia, long before the political, military, and ethnic problems which recently split the country apart. At the time, Yugoslavia was a relatively peaceful country with no hint of the difficulties that were to come. The people were friendly and curious about Westerners. The areas I visited then are today part of the nations of Croatia and Slovenia. The areas through which I passed were mainly agricultural, and the farmers used technology from the previous century. Both men and women--mostly older people--were cutting hay on the hillsides with sickles. Others were carrying the hay to be loaded onto horse-drawn carts which seemed to have the right-of-way on the narrow...
Four Seasons George V Paris Paris
5 Reviews and 556 Opinions The Four Seasons George V is truly one of the world's great hotels. I really, really love to stay...
The Montague On The Gardens London
5 Reviews and 1067 Opinions The concierge was fabulous, the hotel very grand, and despite the rooms being small they were...
Albergo Del Senato Rome
5 Reviews and 1085 Opinions The Pantheon is my favorite building in Rome and might be my favorite building in the world. The...
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