After we had already explored the city of Luxembourg yesterday in sunny weather, the visit of the city of Trier was scheduled for today. Since Trier is only about 30 minutes from Luxembourg and was on our way home, a sightseeing stop was perfect 🙂
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Luxembourg – Attractions, Things to do & Photo spots (Luxembourg)
Since the weather was super nice for this weekend, we decided to make a weekend trip to Luxembourg and Trier. Both cities that we didn’t know yet and both have a lot of attractions to offer 🙂
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After our stay yesterday on board the AIDAperla for the 1st AIDA Barcamp we woke up today in bright sunshine and enjoyed the very tasty hotel breakfast buffet at the 25hours Hotel Hamburg HafenCity. Our train back to Frankfurt was not supposed to leave until 2.30 pm, so we had a few hours for a little sightseeing in Hamburg. So nothing like going on 🙂
» Read the full blog postEphesus – The Ruins of the Ancient City & the Library of Celsus (Turkey)
Today was the last stop of our 7-day celestyal cruise through the Aegean Sea. On this last day you had the opportunity to choose between 2 destinations: on the one hand, you can explore the Greek island of Samos, where the ship arrives in the early morning. Or you can stay on board to continue to Kusadasi in Turkey after a short stop on Samos. On the way back in the evening, the guests who stayed on Samos are picked …
» Read the full blog postDelos Island – The ruins of the ancient city of Delos (Greece)
The island of Mykonos, home to just under 10,000 inhabitants, is one of the most famous Greek islands in the Aegean Sea and is a popular destination for many tourists. That the island should be the first stop of our cruise, we were incredibly pleased, because here is among others the beautiful city Mykonos Town and the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the ancient city of Delos.
» Read the full blog postSpeyer – The Museum of Technology & the Speyer Cathedral (Germany)
Sometimes you don’t have to travel far into the distance to discover new things 🙂 And so we came up with the idea of going to the 75-kilometre-wide town of Speyer to visit the local museum and the cathedral. Both were completely new to us.
» Read the full blog postAmsterdam – Tourist Attractions, Things to do & Photo spots (Netherlands)
Since our onward flight to Hawaii did not start until early Sunday morning, we only had a whole day for Amsterdam to see the sights of the old town.
» Read the full blog postThe Felsenmeer (Rocky Sea) & the Monastery Lorsch (Germany)
On our day tour through the Odenwald today, we first hiked the fairytale trail in the Obrunn Gorge in the morning and noon, looked at FĂĽrstenau Castle, the Einhardsbasilica and the old town of Michelstadt and then walked a little through the alleys of the old town of Erbach. In the early afternoon we continued towards Lautertal to the rocky sea.
» Read the full blog postBudapest – Tourist Attractions & Things to do on the Pest side (Hungary)
After looking at the sights of Budapest on the Buda side (Castle Palace, Matthias Church, Fisherman’s Bastion) this morning, we were told to explore the main attractions of the Pest side.
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After looking at the panorama of Budapest at night last night, we had until 3.30 pm today to explore Budapest with its districts Buda and Pest individually on our own, before our trip continued to Bratislava.
» Read the full blog postBudapest – Travel Guide & beautiful photo spots at night (Hungary)
After our day tour “From Danube Knee to Budapest” we wanted to take the opportunity after dinner on the A-ROSA Bella to get some impressions of Budapest at night.
» Read the full blog postVienna – Schönbrunn Palace, Belvedere Palace & Prater (Austria)
After looking mainly at the sights of Vienna’s city centre on the first day, we used our 2nd day in Vienna to take a look at the other landmarks of the city. Since the weather was perfect on our two days, we mostly walked and used almost no public transport.
» Read the full blog postVienna – Tourist Attractions, Things to do & Photo spots (Austria)
In the centre of Vienna, i.e. the Inner City or the 1st district, are many of the top sights of the 1.8 million large Austrian capital. The historic centre of Vienna has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001, as it is a special 3 key periods of European political and cultural development (medieval, baroque and founding period).
» Read the full blog postSouthern Cyprus – Tourist Attractions, Things to do & Photo spots (Cyprus)
After our sightseeing stops in Northern Cyprus we wanted to explore the most important sights of Southern Cyprus, because also the south of the island has all sorts of interesting and interesting things to offer. It would have been almost impossible for us to look at all the main attractions of Cyprus in one week. So we just picked out a few things that we could easily reach by car from our Hotel Acapulco Beach Resort & SPA in Kyrenia. …
» Read the full blog postBrussels – Tourist Attractions, Things to do & Photo spots (Belgium)
Brussels is ideal for a short weekend getaway. Depending on where you live, Brussels is not all too far away from Germany, so it is easy to reach, the city is quite clear and not all too big and well developed for tourism. Whether on foot, by sightseeing bus or public transport – you can get to all important sights quite quickly and easily.
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