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Troja - Heinrich Schliemann

Troy - Capital ancient town of Homer´s Ilias

Troy is, as far as we know, one of the most well known ancient places in the world. This is leading back to Homer in straight line as he was responsible author to write about the history of the town Troy in his famous epos called “Ilias” about 3...

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Viaducts of the former Finnebahn near Bad Bibra

Viaducts of the former Finnebahn near Bad Bibra

08-08-2022 | Hits:3683

The two viaducts between Bad Bibra and Saubach were probably the most difficult ...

Roßleben-Wiehe model railway - culture with a twist

Roßleben-Wiehe model railway - culture with a twist

05-02-2023 | Hits:5858

It's rainy, cloudy and cold - no weather for walking or cycling, but there was s...

Impressive historical Christmas Market in Osnabrück

Osnabrück - Impressive historical Christmas Market

18-12-2025 | Hits:9256

Osnabrück - In front of the incomparable historical skyline of the old town of ...

Crawling crossing of Lake Constance for the Allgäu workshops

Crawling crossing of Lake Constance for the Allgäu workshops

31-08-2023 | Hits:2994

Hamza Bakircioglu is an absolute fan of long-distance swimming. In general, wate...

Hiking, Cycling and Motorcycle Tours

Lycian Way - Antalya to Fethiye

11-03-2025

Lycian Way - Hiking from Antalya to Fethiye

Readers have written to us several times and asked for information about th...

Hike along the Lohmen Archaeological Trail

11-10-2024

Hike along the Lohmen Archaeological Trail

In the mid-1990s, bulldozers were levelling the area for the construction o...

Cycle tour to the Burgaltendorf castle ruins from Essen-Horst

28-06-2024

Cycle tour to the Burgaltendorf castle ruins from Essen-Horst

The starting point for our cycling explorations in the Ruhr area was once a...

Albania - North Macedonia - Greece - Turkey - Cyprus

Thessalonica at the time of the Byzantines

Thessalonica at the time of the Byzantines

24-11-2016 | Hits:100577

Our tours in Thessalonica had not only brought us into contact with the Roman cu...

Rozafa Castle ruins - a legendary fortress at Shkodra

Rozafa Castle ruins - a legendary fortress at Shkodra

27-10-2016 | Hits:1104856

Rozafa Castle - Our routes through Albania had led us through Shkodra several ti...

Camping on Lake Ohrid near Struga – first steps

Camping on Lake Ohrid near Struga – first steps

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Family warmth and the first open conversations on the evening of our arrival had...

Skopje - Our visit to the Old Bazaar

Skopje - Our visit to the Old Bazaar

04-12-2023 | Hits:3807

Skopje - After the very disappointing impressions of the modernized inner-city a...

Camper-Route

Gythion Bay Camping in the Peloponnesus

08-01-2019

Station 17 - Gythion Bay Camping in the Peloponnesus

Forty thousand square meters full of orange, fig, mulberry, olive and nut t...

Station 43 - From Jena to the Triocamp Praha in Prague

17-11-2018

Station 43 - From Jena to Triocamp Praha in Prague

As a stopover we thought of a place in the vicinity of Prague, since Prague...

Poland – Czech Republic – Austria – Switzerland – Slovenia – Croatia – Hungary – Serbia

Salona - capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia

Salona - capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia

11-10-2023 | Hits:6289

Our time at the Klis fortress was so long that we decided to drive to the ruined...

Tomb stones - Stecci at the wayside of Imotski

Tomb stones - Stecci at the wayside of Imotski

25-09-2015 | Hits:35880

Tomb Stones - We were coming back from Imotski on the way for camping in Omis on...

Zegrze reservoir, Narew and Bug rivers - weather in November

Zegrze reservoir, Narew and Bug rivers - November weather

19-11-2020 | Hits:5609

Zegrze reservoir - On the road again in Poland, we had been looking for accommod...

Kashubian Switzerland and the Kashubian ethnic group

Kashubian Switzerland and the Kashubian ethnic group

05-08-2021 | Hits:6079

Kashubian Switzerland - Anyone who has read the “Tin Drum” by the recently d...

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