Isola di Capo Rizzuto in Calabria

13 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  4 minutes

Palazzo Barracco, the town hall © panoramio.com - Salvatore Migliari/cc-by-3.0

Palazzo Barracco, the town hall © panoramio.com – Salvatore Migliari/cc-by-3.0

Isola di Capo Rizzuto (Isolitano: Ìsula Capu Rizzutu) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Crotone, Calabria, Italy. The population of the town is around 15,000.   read more…

Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic

12 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

© Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz/cc-by-sa-4.0

© Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz/cc-by-sa-4.0

Boca Chica is a municipality (municipio) of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there is one municipal district (distritos municipal): La Caleta. As of the 2022 census it had 167,040 inhabitants, 104,951 living in the city itself and 62,089 in its rural districts (Secciones). Boca Chica has a popular beach with the same name, located about 30 kilometers east of Santo Domingo de Guzmán in the south-east region of the country.   read more…

Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris

11 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Paris / Île-de-France Reading Time:  6 minutes

Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés © Diego Delso/cc-by-sa-4.0

Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés © Diego Delso/cc-by-sa-4.0

Saint-Germain-des-Prés is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its official borders are the River Seine on the north, the rue des Saints-Pères on the west, between the rue de Seine and rue Mazarine on the east, and the rue du Four on the south. Residents of the quarter are known as Germanopratins.   read more…

St Katharine Docks in London

10 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, London Reading Time:  11 minutes

Ivory House © geograph.org.uk - Peter Trimming/cc-by-sa-2.0

Ivory House © geograph.org.uk – Peter Trimming/cc-by-sa-2.0

St Katharine Docks is a former dock in the St Katherine and Wapping ward of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies in the East End on the north bank of the River Thames, immediately downstream of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. From 1828 to 1968, it was one of the commercial docks that made up the Port of London. It is in the redevelopment zone known as the London Docklands and is now a popular housing and leisure complex.   read more…

Washington Heights in Manhattan

9 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City Reading Time:  6 minutes

Castle Village © Jim.henderson/cc-by-sa-4.0

Castle Village © Jim.henderson/cc-by-sa-4.0

Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War. Washington Heights is bordered by Inwood to the north along Dyckman Street, by Harlem to the south along 155th Street, by the Harlem River and Coogan’s Bluff to the east, and by the Hudson River to the west.   read more…

Bercy Village in Paris

8 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  3 minutes

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© flickr.com – jean-louis zimmermann/cc-by-2.0

Bercy Village is a shopping and leisure center in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, inaugurated in May 2000 and opened to the public in 2002. It is operated by the real estate company Altarea.   read more…

St. Michael’s Church in Hildesheim

7 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  7 minutes

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© Tilman2007/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Church of St. Michael (German: Michaeliskirche) is an early-Romanesque church located in Hildesheim, Germany. It has been on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list since 1985 due to the before mentioned early-Romanesque architecture and art found within such as the Tree of Jesse and the now relocated Bernward Doors. Following the Protestant reformation, St. Michael’s became a shared church, with the majority of the structure being Lutheran and the crypt Roman Catholic.   read more…

International Slavery Museum in Liverpool

6 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  5 minutes

Merseyside Maritime Museum © Rept0n1x/cc-by-sa-3.0

Merseyside Maritime Museum © Rept0n1x/cc-by-sa-3.0

The International Slavery Museum is a museum located in Liverpool, UK, that focuses on the history and legacy of the transatlantic slave trade. The museum, which forms part of the Merseyside Maritime Museum, consists of three main galleries which focus on the lives of people in West Africa, their eventual enslavement, and their continued fight for freedom. Additionally the museum discusses slavery in the modern day as well as topics on racism and discrimination.   read more…

Paju in South Korea

5 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  4 minutes

City Hall © hyolee2/cc-by-sa-3.0

City Hall © hyolee2/cc-by-sa-3.0

Paju is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Paju was made a city in 1997; it had previously been a county (gun). Paju has east and west low type of geographic trait. Many mountains are located in eastern Paju, assemble to create the border with Yangju. In northern Paju, mountains form the border with Goyang. Moreover, in central Paju some lower mountains spread toward south. For the major rivers in Paju, there are Imjin River and Han River. Imjin River flows between northern west and west, and Han River flows in western south of Paju.   read more…

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