Theme Week French Alps

23 March 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time:  6 minutes

Mont Blanc with Aiguille du Midi © Hseugut/cc-by-sa-4.0

Mont Blanc with Aiguille du Midi © Hseugut/cc-by-sa-4.0

The French Alps are the portions of the Alps mountain range that stand within France, located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regions. While some of the ranges of the French Alps are entirely in France, others, such as the Mont Blanc massif, are shared with Switzerland and Italy. At 4,808 metres (15,774 ft), Mont Blanc, on the France–Italy border, is the highest mountain in the Alps, and the highest Western European mountain.   read more…

Theme Week Thessaly

26 January 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  6 minutes

Street scene in Larissa © Iolchos07/cc-by-sa-4.0

Street scene in Larissa © Iolchos07/cc-by-sa-4.0

Thessaly (Greek: Thessalía; ancient Thessalian: Petthalía) is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia (Ancient Greek: ??????, Aiolía), and appears in Homer‘s Odyssey.   read more…

Theme Week Seychelles

22 December 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  16 minutes

Victoria Clock Tower © Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/cc-by-sa-4.0

Victoria Clock Tower © Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/cc-by-sa-4.0

Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles (French: République des Seychelles; Seychellois Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an island country and archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, Victoria, is 1,500 kilometres (800 nautical miles) east of mainland Africa. Nearby island countries and territories include the Maldives, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the French overseas departments of Mayotte and Réunion to the south; and the Chagos Archipelago to the east. Seychelles is the smallest country in Africa as well as the least populated sovereign African country, with an estimated population of 100,600 in 2022.   read more…

Theme Week Trentino

24 November 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Bon appétit, Theme Weeks Reading Time:  9 minutes

Riva del Garda © Markus Bernet/cc-by-sa-2.0

Riva del Garda © Markus Bernet/cc-by-sa-2.0

Trentino (Lombard, Venetian and Ladin: Trentin, German: Trient), officially the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italian: provincia autonoma di Trento), is an autonomous province of Italy in the country’s far north. Trentino and South Tyrol constitute the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, an autonomous region under the constitution. The province is composed of 166 comuni (municipalities). Its capital is the city of Trento (Trent). The province covers an area of more than 6,000 km² (2,300 sq mi), with a total population of 541,098 in 2019.   read more…

Theme Week Zealand

20 October 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time:  6 minutes

Nyhavn in Copenhagen © Jakub Ha?un/cc-by-sa-4.0

Nyhavn in Copenhagen © Jakub Ha?un/cc-by-sa-4.0

Zealand (Danish: Sjælland) is the largest and most populous island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size) at 7,031 km² (2715 sq. mi.). Zealand had a population of 2,319,705 on 1 January 2020, comprising 40% of the country’s population.   read more…

Theme Week Sri Lanka

22 September 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time:  9 minutes

World Trade Center, Presidential Secretariat, Bank of Ceylon and Galadari Hotel in Colombo © Balou46/cc-by-sa-4.0

World Trade Center, Presidential Secretariat, Bank of Ceylon and Galadari Hotel in Colombo © Balou46/cc-by-sa-4.0

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest, and it lies across the Bay of Bengal from Bangladesh and Myanmar in the northeast and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the east. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital of Sri Lanka, while the largest city, Colombo, is the administrative and judicial capital which is the nation’s political, financial and cultural centre. Kandy is the second-largest urban area and also the capital of the last native kingdom of Sri Lanka. The most spoken language Sinhala, is spoken by the majority of the population (approximately 17 million). Tamil is also spoken by approximately five million people, making it the second most-spoken language in Sri Lanka.   read more…

Theme Week Chalkidiki

25 August 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time:  7 minutes

© panoramio.com - Sr?an Mijatov/cc-by-3.0

© panoramio.com – Sr?an Mijatov/cc-by-3.0

Chalkidiki (alternatively Halkidiki), also known as Chalcidice, is a peninsula and regional unit of Greece, part of the region of Central Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia in Northern Greece. The autonomous Mount Athos region constitutes the easternmost part of the peninsula, but not of the regional unit.   read more…

Theme Week Cambodia

21 July 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  7 minutes

Pub Street in Siem Reap © Christophe95/cc-by-sa-4.0

Pub Street in Siem Reap © Christophe95/cc-by-sa-4.0

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline along the Gulf of Thailand in the southwest. It spans an area of 181,035 square kilometres (69,898 square miles), dominated by a low-lying plain and the confluence of the Mekong river and Tonlé Sap, Southeast Asia’s largest lake. It is dominated by a tropical climate. Cambodia has a population of about 17 million people, the majority of which are ethnically Khmer. Its capital and most populous city is Phnom Penh, followed by Siem Reap and Battambang.   read more…

Theme Week Engadine

23 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time:  12 minutes

Lakes of Upper Engadine © Biovi

Lakes of Upper Engadine © Biovi

The Engadin or Engadine (Romansh: Engiadina; German: Engadin; Italian: Engadina; French: Engadine) is a long high Alpine valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden in southeasternmost Switzerland with about 25,000 inhabitants. It follows the route of the Inn (Romansh: En) from its headwaters at Maloja Pass in the southwest running roughly northeast until the Inn flows into Austria, little less than one hundred kilometers downstream. The En/Inn subsequently flows at Passau into the Danube, making it the only Swiss river to drain into the Black Sea. The Engadine is protected by high mountain ranges on all sides and is famous for its sunny climate, beautiful landscapes and outdoor activities.   read more…

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