Theme Week Serbia

22 June 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time:  7 minutes

National Assembly in Belgrade © Boris Dimitrov/cc-by-sa-3.0

National Assembly in Belgrade © Boris Dimitrov/cc-by-sa-3.0

Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country in Southeast and Central Europe. Located in the Balkans, it is bordered by Hungary in the north, Romania in the northeast, Bulgaria in the southeast, North Macedonia in the south, Croatia in the northwest, Bosnia and Herzegovina in the west, and Montenegro in the southwest. Serbia also claims to share a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia has about 6.6 million inhabitants, excluding Kosovo. Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, is also its largest city.   read more…

Theme Week Irish Province Munster

25 May 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time:  7 minutes

Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary, the historic seat of the Kings of Munster © flickr.com - David Stanley/cc-by-2.0

Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary, the historic seat of the Kings of Munster © flickr.com – David Stanley/cc-by-2.0

Munster (Irish: an Mhumhain or Cúige Mumhan) is the largest of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south west of the island, entirely within the Republic of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a “king of over-kings” (Irish: rí ruirech). Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into counties for administrative and judicial purposes. In later centuries, local government legislation has seen further sub-division of the historic counties. Munster has no official function for local government purposes. Munster covers an area of 24,675 km² (9,527 sq mi). Its population was 1,373,346 in 2022, with Cork being the largest city. Other significant urban centres in the province include Limerick and Waterford.   read more…

Theme Week County Kerry

20 April 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time:  12 minutes

Dingle Strand Street © JoachimKohlerBremen/cc-by-sa-4.0

Dingle Strand Street © JoachimKohlerBremen/cc-by-sa-4.0

County Kerry (Irish: Contae Chiarraí) is a county on the southwest coast of Ireland, within the province of Munster and the Southern Region. It is bordered by two other counties; Limerick to the east, and Cork to the south and east. It is separated from Clare to the north by the Shannon Estuary. With an area of 4,807 square kilometres (1,856 sq mi) and a population of 156,458 as of 2022, it is the 5th largest of Ireland’s 32 counties by land area, and the 15th most populous. The governing local authority is Kerry County Council.   read more…

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 Yorkshire and the Humber – “God’s Own County!”

23 February 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage Reading Time:  9 minutes

Bradford Town Hall © flickr.com - Jon Farman

Bradford Town Hall © flickr.com – Jon Farman

Yorkshire and the Humber is one of the nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. It is one of the three regions covering Northern England, alongside the North West England and North East England regions, and covers the historic and cultural Yorkshire area.   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…

The Deccan Odyssey

2 December 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage Reading Time:  6 minutes

© Superfast1111/cc-by-sa-4.0

© Superfast1111/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Deccan Odyssey is an Indian luxury train modeled on the Palace on Wheels luxury train and put into service to boost tourism on the Maharashtra route of the Indian Railways. The train, owned by travel company Cox & Kings since 2014, takes visitors on a variety of seven night, eight day trips across Maharashtra.   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…

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