Mirow in the Mecklenburg Lake District

30 March 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  5 minutes

Mirow Castle © kleine-seenplatte.de

Mirow Castle © kleine-seenplatte.de

Mirow is a city in the district of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte in southern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.   read more…

Loch Ard Gorge in Australia

29 March 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  6 minutes

Loch Ard Gorge sign © Se7enLC

Loch Ard Gorge sign © Se7enLC

The Loch Ard Gorge is part of Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia, about 10 minutes drive west of The Twelve Apostles. It is a visible example of the process of erosion in action.   read more…

Sligo, the center of the Irish Border Region

28 March 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Bridge over the Garavogue River © geograph.org.uk - Kenneth Allen/cc-by-sa-2.0

Bridge over the Garavogue River © geograph.org.uk – Kenneth Allen/cc-by-sa-2.0

Sligo is the county town and the most populous urban area in County Sligo. With a population of 19,500 in 2011, it is the second-largest urban centre in the province of Connacht.   read more…

Cittaslow, the Slow Movement

27 March 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  4 minutes

Citta slow marchio alta risoluzione © Ulflinden

Citta slow marchio alta risoluzione © Ulflinden

Cittaslow is a movement founded in Italy in October 1999. The inspiration of Cittaslow was the Slow Food organization. Cittaslow’s goals include improving the quality of life in towns by slowing down its overall pace, especially in a city’s use of spaces and the flow of life and traffic through them. Cittaslow is part of a cultural trend known as the Slow movement.   read more…

La Défense near Paris

23 March 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Hotels, Paris / Île-de-France Reading Time:  6 minutes

La Défence and the Grande Arche from the top of the Arc de Triomphe © Hofi0006/cc-by-sa-3.0

La Défence and the Grande Arche from the top of the Arc de Triomphe © Hofi0006/cc-by-sa-3.0

La Défense is a major business district of the Paris aire urbaine. With a population of 20,000, it is centered in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine département municipalities of Nanterre, Courbevoie, and Puteaux. The district is at the westernmost extremity of Paris‘s 10 km long Historical Axis, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe before culminating at La Défense.   read more…

Bourg-en-Bresse in eastern France

23 March 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

© FRED/cc-by-sa-3.0

© FRED/cc-by-sa-3.0

Bourg-en-Bresse is a commune in eastern France with a population of 40,000, capital of the Ain department, and was capital of the former province of Bresse (Brêsse). It is located 70 km (43 mi) north-northeast of Lyon and at 50 kilometres (31 mi) of Lons-le-Saunier. The inhabitants of Bourg-en-Bresse are known as Burgiens. The city is located at the western base of the Jura mountains, on the left bank of the Reyssouze, a tributary of the Saône.   read more…

The Portobello Road in London

20 March 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, London, Shopping Reading Time:  5 minutes

Portobello Road sign © Arnoprepa1/cc-by-sa-3.0

Portobello Road sign © Arnoprepa1/cc-by-sa-3.0

Portobello Road is a street in the Notting Hill district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London. It runs almost the length of Notting Hill from south to north, roughly parallel with Ladbroke Grove. Every August since 1996 the Portobello Film Festival has been held in locations around Portobello Road.   read more…

Theme Week Mexico – Mexico City in the Valley of Mexico

16 March 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  7 minutes

National Palace © Reinhard Jahn/cc-by-sa-2.0

National Palace © Reinhard Jahn/cc-by-sa-2.0

Mexico City (also known as México D.F., or simply D.F.) is the Federal District (Distrito Federal), capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole. Mexico City is the country’s largest city as well as its most important political, cultural, educational and financial center. As an “alpha” global city Mexico City is one of the most important financial and cultural centers in North America. It is located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus at the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 metres (7,350 ft). The city consists of sixteen boroughs.   read more…

Cervia on the Adriatic Sea

14 March 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Garibaldi Square and Fountain © Nerijp

Garibaldi Square and Fountain © Nerijp

Cervia is a town and comune (municipality) in the province of Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna), central Italy, with a population of about 28,000. Originally called Ficocle, it was probably of Greek origin and was located midway from current Cervia and Ravenna. It is known that this originary settlement was destroyed in 709 by patrician Theodore for its alliance with Ravenna against the loyal Byzantines.   read more…

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