15 days in Denmark and a bit of Germany. A nice mix of big cities, tiny villages, cycling and hiking in nature, islands and ferries, and open air museums.
Tag: art
Cycling in the Ruhr area, Germany 2022
In May / June 2022 I spent a week cycling (on my human-powered bike, not an e-bike ;-)) and seeing surprising sights in the former industrial area Ruhrgebiet in Germany. Most of the city centers are quite ugly but there are cool industrial sites all over the place. Many former mines and factories are now open for visits. The whole region is very green, has picturesque old villages with half-timbered houses and some excellent bike paths.
Berlin 2019
Thursday 26 September - Monday 30 September 2019 My 8th visit to my 2nd most favorite city in the world: Berlin! ♥ (My most favorite city is my home town Amsterdam of course :-)) Unfortunately we had quite a lot of rain on 4 of our 5 days there, but that did not keep us …
Venice, Italy
Sunday 19 - Monday 20 May 2019 Venice never appealed to me because of the crowdedness and hardly any locals living there anymore. But it was a convenient stopover between Croatia and Germany. There is a direct train from Venice through the Alps to Munich. Both that train ride and visiting Munich are things I've …
Zagreb, Croatia
Saturday 11 May - Thursday 16 May 2019 Unfortunately all the predictions for lots of rain and storm were true. This was the reason for us to go to Zagreb and to at least have museums to take shelter in (instead of being washed away in coastal towns with minimal indoor attractions). But it's still …
Zadar and Pag, Croatia
Tuesday 7 May - Saturday 11 May 2019 We rented an apartment in the beautiful town of Zadar just outside its posh city center. I had hoped to sunbathe on a beach here but it was too cold and windy. We did enjoy various walks through the beautiful center, had good food and sat reading …
Artistic Pietrasanta
Saturday 7 - Sunday 8 October 2017 To break the journey to Switzerland I stayed one night in this picturesque village that Mario had recommended to me: Pietrasanta (holy stone?). The drive over was very beautiful! For the most part is was the same road I had already driven, only then in quite heavy rain …
Cecilia 