Part two of the 2016 visit to Venice in Italy. Our walking tour today Lets pick up where the last blog post ended – at the Calle Ca’ D’Oro – looking down the canal. The Rialto Market from the Calle Ca’ D’Oro. If you want to see the real action you have to get up…
The best place to stay? Camping Village Jolly! Venice without tourists? Well that is not really possible. It might be at 3 in the morning but you will never walk in Venice for hours and see no tourists. But as you can see in the pictures there are still a lot of quite spots with…
The Summer Trip 2016 was successful so far and I was on a roll – let’s continue – till the end of summer at last. We did start in Stuttgart and stopped in Switzerland. After a few days with Lara and Chris (see the last Blog post Part 6) we did pack the bag and…
Summer Summer Summer – next leg on the Summer Trip 2016 is Switzerland. See – there is a wedding in Croatia and I have to attend. Hmm – and I want to attend as well. Now most people would drive more or less a beeline from Germany to Croatia: Stuttgart down south – cross into…
Goodbye Berlin – a few more hours to Groningen. Walked to the bakery, had coffee with some baked nice things. From there it is only a minute to the tram stop. Now imagine: rush hour traffic at the station and only two machines for tickets. A looooong line and most of the people do not…
Part 2 of my Tourist Day in Berlin. We pick it up where we left in Part 1. Humbold University Friedrich II – he does look lost? I guess it is Hermes Russian Embassy The British Embassy Lots of things going on in front of the Brandenburg Gate Why not? He is not a happy…
Got to Berlin late afternoon. Had to cross half the city to get to Andy’s place. I did meet Andy about half a century ago on an island in Thailand. More or less we do meet every winter somewhere and he did visit me in Stuttgart as well. Time to pay him a visit in…
Street art in Łódź From the train station in Lódź it was a 15 minutes walk to the hotel. I did a small detour because I could walk most of the way in a nice park. Check in was smooth at the Boutique Hostel. The room was 14€ a night – it was clean and…
A few days after I got back from Amsterdam it was time again to hit the road again. Decided on a “3 Stop Tour” Poland – Berlin and Dutchland again. Visit friends and see some of Europe. The trip did start at the Bus Station at Stuttgart Airport. There was too much traffic so I…
A week is short and I only had 3 more days to go. More walking in Amsterdam. More meeting the guys down town and more camping. The Citroen DS Car Collector Next to the camp ground was a big old car collection. Most of the cars had no roof to park under and where exposed…
Nieuwendammerdijk is a dyke or dam in the Northern IJdijk between Buiksloot and Schellingwoude. On my way from the camp ground to Amsterdam down town I crossed it to get to the ferry. Nieuwendam founded in 1514 after one of the dykes broke. At the time the dyke lay between the IJ river and fields….
The best way to explore a city is walking the streets. This way you will see the most and have time to soak it all up. So lets walk a bit :-) Took this picture in 2011 – walked the street again and it still looks the same – almost Guess they do clean the…