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- 08 Febandra88 in Travel Planning | NO COMMENTS
Top 5 art museums in the world
The Louvre
Most of the time, when a traveler visits a new city, museums are part of the sightseeing experience. If you’re interested in the culture and history of the country you’re visiting, then a museum is the best place to find out more about them.
Some people might find museum visits boring, but if the exhibit is good (or you’re simply passionate about art), you’re bound to have fun. And serious art enthusiasts can make museum visits the purpose of their entire trip. So if you love art, mere are the top 5 art museums in the world – plan your trips accordingly! …
- 05 Decitachan in Travel Planning | 1 COMMENT
Top 10 best hostels in Europe
Staying at a hostel and sleeping in a dormitory style room with who knows how many strangers is not everyone’s cup of tea, but this is actually one of the most fun experience of hostel-going.Hostels are a place where one can meet fellow backpackers, can exchange tips and information, and where one can even make friends. So here is our list of the top 10 best hostels in the world, in no particular order. …
- 03 Decitachan in Amazing Places | NO COMMENTS
The mysterious Pendle Witch Country in the UK
Pendle Witch Country is an area locate in the Lancashire Pennines, between the north-western edge of Bronte Country (named after the Bronte sisters) and Ribble Valley and the Yorkshire Dales. This place is not what you’d normally call a tourist magnet, despite the fact that there are plenty of things to see.The mysterious Pendle Witch Country in the UK is like a landscape straight out of a Gothic novel, or maybe one of the Bronte sisters’ books. But the wilderness is not what makes this place special, it is its gruesome history and the attractions related to it. …
- 24 Auglizzy_a in Fun and Travel | NO COMMENTS
Thrifty travel: the best flea markets in the world
If you are into vintage and retro clothes, or if you collect rare things, you are surely familiar with flea markets. Shopping in fancy places will probably give you good value for money and a sense of prestige, but if you are looking for unique things (and if you have a bone to pick with modern consumer culture), you’re much better off if you go hunting for what you want at a flea market.And in addition to getting your hands on a rare record or an early edition of your favourite novel, flea markets are the best way to get to know the heart and soul of the place you’re visiting. So here are a few of the most fascinating flea markets in the world. Good luck rummaging! …
- 04 AugEdina in Travel Planning | NO COMMENTS
5 things you don’t need when going backpacking
Backpacking is the ultimate traveling experience. It is inevitably raw, exhausting and sometimes even unpleasant, but you will be rewarded with the best time of your life. Backpacking is the great-grandmother of tourism, since this was how you had to travel centuries ago if you wanted to get from one place to another. The pilgrims of Canterbury? Backpackers. Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg? Backpacker, with slightly more money then average.The pleasure of backpacking lies in seeing so many places, meeting people and exploring different cultures without the shelter of a luxury hotel or a business-class plane trip. And if you want to make you backpacking trip easier, you have to know what to pack, and more importantly, what not to pack. Here’s a list of things that you do not need to take with you. …
- 07 JunTudi in Travel Planning | NO COMMENTS
Backpacking Europe: Bargain Shopping
Our one week ‘Backpacking Europe’ series has reached its final episode, in which I decided to give you some useful tips on where you can go bargain hunting in Europe. As much as one tries to stick to the budget, shopping is the kind of experience that you just can’t say no to. Whether you go shopping for those places where you can get the best price/quality ratio.If you are determined to see the wonders of Paris, London or Rome, then get ready for considerable expenses. But as popular and over-priced some of these cities must be, keep in mind that locals must also have their shopping hide-outs and that there is no bargain-free destination. So here we go: …
- 02 JunTudi in Fun and Travel | 1 COMMENT
Backpacking Europe: Party-Goer’s Guide to European Cities
Prague
As part of our “Backpacking Europe” series we’ve so far seen what a backpacker can visit and where he/she could spend the night for little money. Backpacking can be quite a demanding activity, but this is no reason to abandon any plans of going out and spend most of the night sleeping; you risk depriving yourself from all the fun and possible friends that are usually part of such an experience!
Europe is not all about art and historical monuments: there are many party people who are traveling all around Europe in search for the best nightlife just as there are cities whose bars and clubs have become their biggest attraction. Many of you might find today’s list to be quite predictable, but omitting the following cities from such an article would be an unforgivable sin: …
- 19 AprTudi in Travel Planning | NO COMMENTS
World’s Most Long-lasting Restaurants
Eating out has always been a powerful socialization tool. The first restaurants where not only places where you could taste the latest culinary delicacies, but also places to interact with the others, confirm your social status or simply meet new people.All across the world we can find restaurants that have managed to survive centuries of progress, in which trends and habits have radically changed. However, these restaurants have somehow managed to survive, always sustained by the people’s need for a palace socialize and be surprised by the most unexpected combinations of flavors (there are gourmands among us, let us keep that in mind). As eating out is also mandatory for a complete travel experience, today we give you a brief list of world’s oldest and most prestigious restaurants: …
- 08 AprTudi in Travel Planning | 3 COMMENTS
Europe’s Best Preserved Medieval Cities
Bruges at night
It is a common symptom among European travelers to get lost in the labyrinth of cobbled streets of some random historic city and get the impression that an invisible time machine has sent them back in time. The sensation is both scary and inspiring. But there are those towns and villages across old Europe where it feels like time has no other effects but to enhance their beauty – cities that have been so throughly preserved that sometimes you wonder how can personal computers and TV sets hide between those delicious moldy walls and washed-off plaster.
And the greatest thing about it is that you’ll find hundreds of such towns in Europe, many of them still undiscovered by the tourist hordes. Today’s post is a short list of the most popular and best preserved European cities: …
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