It was our first day in Bangkok. We wanted to start our adventures visiting Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha). It wasn’t very hot, so we decided to walk. Maybe 200 meters after crossing the famous backpackers-party street Kho San Road, we noticed we had left the map of the city in the hostel. But we spotted a map ...

It was the first unplanned country on our route. After some days in Ukraine, Romania seemed a good idea to continue our travel. My old never used guide of this country was lying on a shelf at home, as when we were leaving to Ukraine we were actually thinking of going north, to see Lithuania or Latvia. But on the way ...

DN67C road, in Romania, mostly known as Transalpina, connects Sebes in the north to Novaci in the south. It is 146 km long, crosses the Carpathian mountains and reaches 2145 meters at its highest point in the Urdele pass. It was only in 2012 that Transalpina was opened to the public traffic. It was originally inaugurated under the reign of ...

We were in Krakow when we found ourselves with two weeks to spend in any country nearby where both of us had never been before. Ukraine and Romania seemed the logical choice not only for the geographical proximity, which allowed us to take the car, but also because it would be the most different places still nearby Poland. We thought ...

If you like to do some trekking in the mountains and you are in Porto/Aveiro area for some days, you should consider visiting Drave in the mountain range Serra de Arouca. You can’t access it by car, there’s no electricity, piped water, gas, telephone, sanitation or any other type of modernization. There are also no shops and money is useless ...

Here is our Top 5 viewpoints of Porto. We had 11 diferent ones and choosing only 5 was not an easy task. Oporto’s Sé (Sé do Porto) If you are visiting the city, this is a mandatory place to visit. Enjoy the views over the old part of the city. Map here. Hotel Dom Henrique From the bar in the ...

Switzerland has millions of wonderful places to go for a hike. I opened a Swiss guide trying to find some nice one-day mountain trip close to Zurich and felt totally overwhelmed with the number of places, mountain tracks, small cute villages by lakes, etc. Unfortunately the weather was not good, it was very cloudy, chilly and rainy. We were not ...

We are having dinner at a great house in Sainte-Maxime, talking to our host Eric about our travel plans. We tell him that in the next few days we are planning to go Monaco and we ask him for recommendations and tips about parking spots. We are shocked to hear that it will be difficult to drive there, as there ...

Côte d’Azur (French Riviera) was one of the most awaited places during our western European part of the trip. Considered by many to be the most beautiful coast in the world, ideal for sunbathing in posh maritime towns like Nice, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Saint-Raphael or Menton. But is it really that great? On the way to Côte d’Azur, we stopped in ...

Mainly known for being the capital city of Basque Country and Guggenheim museum, Bilbao is a modern, well-organized and neat city. We got an impression, that this must be a really nice place to live in, both for its cultural and economic development. There are many public libraries, exhibition centers, museums, small galleries, theaters, etc. Our host, a proud Basque, ...