Kinderijk Wind Mills (Rotterdam - Netherlands)
Kinderijk Windmills, one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Netherlands, was the main reason why I wanted to visit Rotterdam. Dutch Windmills were something - there's some magic about them! I felt...
View ArticleBos en Duin Hotel & Bosq Restaurant (Texel - Netherlands)
Texel is a small Dutch island, at the northern tip of Netherlands. We recently decided to spend a 'lazy' autumn weekend here. Well, I expected it to be lazy but it was far from lazy and I will sharing...
View ArticleTop 5 things to do in Texel (Netherlands)
One of the best things to do in Texel is, to 'Do Nothing'! I mean, its a small island that's 25km x 8km. Its surrounded by sea and is filled with agricultural land and sheep. So just to sit back and...
View ArticleWadden Sea & De Schorren Marshland (Texel - Netherlands)
The main reason why we headed to Texel was ofcourse for Wadden Sea which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Netherlands! Well actually, its a shared site with Germany and Denmark as well. Wadden Sea is...
View ArticleGLOW Light Festival, Eindhoven (North Brabant - Netherlands)
My friend recently moved to Eindhoven and meeting him is a good excuse to see this city as well and what occasion better than the GLOW festival! Glow is a Light Art Festival that happens every year in...
View ArticleVillages of Texel Island (North Brabant - Netherlands)
Though its a tiny little island, Texel has 7 villages in it. I managed to bike in and around a few villages.Like my blog? Support me via Patreon! It costs less than a cuppa coffee!Den Hoorn: Den Hoorn...
View ArticleWeekend trip to Texel Island (Noord Holland - Netherlands)
An effort towards Sustainable Travel We have been having thoughts lately regarding flying and using cars - ofcourse, it's all about the carbon emissions. So when we went to Texel, we tried our best to...
View ArticleVillages & Towns of Rhine Valley - Part 1 (RLP - Germany)
Germany is known for this fairy-tale like castles and Upper Middle Rhine Valley is where you get to see 40+ castles in a stretch of 67km! I'll write more about it in another post, for now, here's in...
View ArticleVillages & Towns of Rhine Valley - Part 2 (RLP - Germany)
Continuing with more villages & towns, and about more places to see, things to do, castles, churches & monuments of the UNESCO Site of Upper Middle Rhine Valley. I've already written about...
View ArticleUpper Middle Rhine Valley (RLP - Germany)
Rhine is a massive river that begins at Konstanz in South Germany, passes via Switzerland, then goes along the French-German border and goes back into Germany and then heads into Netherlands and...
View ArticleHotel Bellevue, Boppard - A Review (RLP - Germany)
Any of my regular readers would know my love for historic hotels. I have a further more inclination towards the family owned hotels. They do have a very homely feeling to them and more often than not,...
View ArticleBaarle Hertog-Nassau (Belgium & Netherlands)
I stumbled upon Baarle Hertog on a map. I mean, literally, I was zooming into the map at Antwerp searching for landmarks & places to see when I saw this black doodle like thing, on the map near the...
View ArticleOne day in Eindhoven (North Brabant - Netherlands)
As I mentioned earlier in the blogpost about Glow light festival, we visited Eindhoven because our friend recently relocated there. Our plan was to visit Baarle-hertog on Saturday morning, then head to...
View ArticleHotel Sintra Palace Marmòris - A Review
When we planned our Lisbon & Sintra trip, one of my initial decisions was to stay in Sintra. Sintra is beautiful. Its extremely beautiful, its green, its lush, its so much more gorgeous than the...
View ArticleCastelo dos Mouros & Pena Palace, Sintra (Lisboa - Portugal)
Since we stayed in Sintra we had effectively a day and a half to explore and we managed to see 4 places. We began our day 1 with Pena Palace and day 2 with Castelo dos Mouros and the weather on the 2...
View ArticleQuinta de Regaleira & Monserrate Palace, Sintra (Lisboa - Portugal)
As I mentioned in the earlier post, we spent 2 days in Sintra and unfortunately on Day 1 it was pouring cats & dogs! We began our day with Pena Palace on day 1 and when it stopped rain, we headed...
View ArticleBelem Tower & Jeronimos (Hieronymites) Monastery (Lisboa - Portugal)
I had very conflicting feeling when I was here. One, is the joy of traveling, being in a new country and a new UNESCO Site. Two, the not-so-positive feeling of being in the land of Vasco-da-Gama! This...
View ArticleStrasbourg (Grand Est - France)
When Venkat's friends pulled him for a day-trip to Strasbourg, we were oblivious of the fact that the city's cathedral is a UNESCO World Heritage Site! It came in a pleasant surprise! Venkat's friend...
View ArticleBrussels & Comics! (Belgium)
Brussels Comic Route, MOOF & Comic Strip MuseumsBrussels and Comics go hand in hand. I felt it when I visited Brussels for the first ever time, as a daytrip from London. The tourist office was...
View ArticleUnusual Museums of Brussels, Belgium
Living here, in Brussels, as a holder of Museumpassmusees, I've visited quite a few unusual museums, just because they are listed as 'free entrance' with it, which I may or may not have otherwise.......
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