Tuesday, September 28. Around 2:00 h we check-in near the Old Anhalter Station. Fill out 3 forms for corona, vaccination and show the corona-app. Discover you can read it without scanning, would have been handy in Romania. We walk to…
Cloth Hall of Krakaw
Sunday, September 26. More to the North. Spis castle is the first stop. We park and can barely see the castle, it’s still in the clouds. We walk up and visit it. On top of the castle we see the…
Cozy Kosice
Saturday, September 25. Yesterday we left Romania, drove on a very straight road through the Puzstas and made a stop at Hortobágy. Endless grass. In Eger (Hungary) we check in next to the minaret. A single tower in the street.…
Castles, fortified and wooden churches
Tuesday, September 21. Today a winding road to the North. In Sanaia we park in the woods and walk further to Peles Castle. Beautiful 19th century Castle. Apparently it would cost 120 million dollars to build nowadays. The outside is…
Best use of Parliament in Bucharest
Saturday, September 18. From Sibiu we take the road E68 to Brasov and then the DN7C to Cârtisoara. The mountains rise in front of us. Still some clouds partly cover the mountains. The road meanders up and up. What a…
Lively Sibiu
Thursday, September 16, after the beautiful cities of Pécs and Szeged in Hungary we cross the border to Romania. After lunch in Deva we visit the 15th century Corvin Castle in Hunedoara. Beautiful old castle, worth a small detour. Next…
Budapest, beauty at the Donau
Walking into town we cross the beautiful Museum of Applied Arts. Actually they renovate it, so we see just a picture on the scaffolding. At the Hungarian National Museum many people hang around in the park. The building of 1802…
Bratislava Swat Team for breakfast
Sunday, 2021 September 12 Last Saturday we, Marien, Hans Jurgen and I, went on a roadtrip to the East. After a night in Prague we visited Brno in Czech Republic. On top of town castle Hrad Spilberk awaits us. All…
Ancient building skills
Friday 6 March 2020. After checking in, into the city. Survive some very busy and crazy street crossings, traffic lights are decorative it seems. Cross the river Nile, walk under some palm trees at Al-Zohreiya Gardens and see the Cairo…
More than Petra
Saturday 29 February. Yesterday evening I arrived in the capital of Jordan, Amman. After passing the lighted coast of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem we’re landing. Buy a visa by card, take a cab to the hotel and meet roommate Oli…