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Berlin | City Walks | Europe | Germany
Tracking Down the Nazis in Berlin
Here is something about WWII that you may not know: the most heavily destroyed European cities were not located inside Germany but on the country’s periphery: the Reich’s main line of defence. Brest, Warsaw and Stalingrad experienced brutal ground battles and house-to-house combat, and at the end of the war, roughly 95 percent of these…
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Where to Look for the Beauty of Brest
In 1838, eight statues were erected around the Place de la Concorde (in the centre of Paris) that were dedicated to eight major cities of France: Bordeaux, Brest, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Rouen, and Strasbourg. Why these eight cities – and not Toulouse, for example, which was bigger than Strasbourg at the time, while Brest…
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Italian Restaurants and Their Three Circles of Hell
Over the years, we have taken you to hike in many places all over Italy: coasts and mountains, lakes and rivers, cities and isolated villages. Today, we will tell you what to do at the end of a long hiking day – or rather, what not to do to avoid falling into the Circles Of…
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Croatia | Easy Hiking | Europe
A Place To Visit Before You Die – The Plitvice Lakes
I am not a great fan of books that list 100 Places To Visit Before You Die or some such. The whole concept is built on the false assumption that the urge to travel is driven by the same needs and motives in all of us. If you don’t believe me, just visit any holiday…
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Baha’i Terraces of Haifa: The Most Beautiful Garden in the World
Israel is a small country, smaller than the state of New Jersey and roughly half the size of the Netherlands. Due to its long and narrow shape, however, the distances from one place to another can be surprisingly long. There is, for example, room enough in Israel for a 1-hour domestic flight from Tel Aviv…
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Fall in Love With Modern Architecture in Tel Aviv
Modern architecture is difficult to love. It is not so much the concept that is the problem here: all of us can easily agree that its principles are fine and noble – simplicity (less is more), an appearance of elegant restraint (ornament is crime), transparency of structure (form follows function). But while this theory has…
