Theme Week Romanian Riviera – Vama Veche

21 January 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

Corsarul © kikiricky/cc-by-sa-3.0

Corsarul © kikiricky/cc-by-sa-3.0

Vama Veche (historical names: Ilanlâk, Ilanlâc, Turkish: Ilanlık) is a village in Constanţa County, Romania, on the Black Sea coast, near the border with Bulgaria, at 28.57 E longitude, 43.75 N latitude. It is part of the commune of Limanu and in 2002, it had a population of 178. Vama Veche administratively belongs to the commune Limanu. The town is located in Dobrogea, on the shore of the Black Sea, less than one kilometer from the border with Bulgaria.   read more…

Belle-Île in Brittany

21 January 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

Sauzon © Mica/cc-by-3.0

Sauzon © Mica/cc-by-3.0

Belle-Île, Belle-Île-en-Mer, or Belle Isle (Breton: Ar Gerveur; Old Breton: Guedel) is a French island off the coast of Brittany in the département of Morbihan, and the largest of Brittany’s islands. It is 14 kilometres (7 1⁄2 nautical miles) from the Quiberon peninsula. Administratively, the island is divided into four communes: Bangor, Le Palais, Locmaria, Sauzon. Belle-Île formed a canton until 2015 when it was merged into the canton of Quiberon as part of a general overhaul.   read more…

Theme Week Romanian Riviera

20 January 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time:  5 minutes

Mamaia Beach © Razvan Socol/cc-by-sa-4.0

Mamaia Beach © Razvan Socol/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Romanian Black Sea resorts, or the Romanian Riviera, stretch along the Black Sea coast from the Danube Delta at the northern end down to the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the south, along 275 kilometers of coastline.   read more…

Düsseldorf International Boat Show

20 January 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Sport, Superyachts Reading Time:  6 minutes

© flickr.com - Sir James/cc-by-sa-2.0-de

© flickr.com – Sir James/cc-by-sa-2.0-de

The Düsseldorf International Boat Show (German: Internationale Bootsausstellung Düsseldorf), more commonly known as boot Düsseldorf or just boot is one of the world’s premier boat shows. With some 1,600 exhibitors from over 50 countries, boot Düsseldorf is considered a benchmark for the international boat and water sports industry. Unparalleled at other major boat shows, large vessels up to 180 grt can be looked on in their entirety, as the exhibition is a complete indoor event. Boot Düsseldorf is held annually at Messe Düsseldorf, Germany, for the duration of a week in the end of January.   read more…

Meze

19 January 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  10 minutes

Israeli meze © flickr.com - Ted Eytan/cc-by-sa-2.0

Israeli meze © flickr.com – Ted Eytan/cc-by-sa-2.0

Meze (also spelled mezze or mezé) is a selection of small dishes served as appetizers in eastern Mediterranean cuisines: Syria, Iraq, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran, Armenia. It is similar to Spanish tapas and Italian antipasti. A meze may be served as a part of a multi-course meal or form a meal in itself. Meze are often served with spirits such as arak, rakia, raki, oghi, ouzo, or grappa at meyhane and ouzeri or at regular restaurants.   read more…

panem et circenses and divide et impera

18 January 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  13 minutes

Portrait of Juvenal from the 'Nuremberg Chronicle', late 1400s © Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff

Portrait of Juvenal from the ‘Nuremberg Chronicle’, late 1400s © Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff

panem et circenses
Bread and circuses (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.   read more…

Port city and peninsula of Quiberon in Brittany

17 January 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  4 minutes

© Remi Jouan/cc-by-3.0

© Remi Jouan/cc-by-3.0

Quiberon (Breton: Kiberen) is a commune in the French department of Morbihan, administrative region of Brittany, western France.   read more…

Caesarea in Israel

16 January 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  6 minutes

© flickr.com - Ricardo Tulio Gandelman/cc-by-2.0

© flickr.com – Ricardo Tulio Gandelman/cc-by-2.0

Caesarea, also transliterated as Keisarya or Qaysaria, is an affluent resort town in north-central Israel, which was named after the ancient city of Caesarea Maritima situated 1–2 kilometres (0.62–1.24 mi) to the south in the adjacent Caesarea National Park. One of the most famous residents is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.   read more…

Moscow Metro, palaces of the people

15 January 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Architecture Reading Time:  8 minutes

Novoslobodskaya Station © flickr.com - Kandukuru Nagarjun/cc-by-2.0

Novoslobodskaya Station © flickr.com – Kandukuru Nagarjun/cc-by-2.0

The Moscow Metro is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union.   read more…

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