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Four primary impressions of Monaco after a 6-hour walk: 1. The place is immaculately clean and tidy. I don’t recall being in another place that appeared so clean and tidy, except Disneyland and DisneyWorld. 2. There are a lot of fitness enthusiasts. Many places have healthy athletic people. What struck me about Monaco is the…
Free Walking Tours are an employment opportunity for many educated Poles who guide tourists through Poland’s major cities like Warsaw, Krakow and Gdansk. There is generally a choice of several different kinds of tours with regular scheduled starting times and meeting places posted online. Most walking tours are available by simply showing up at the…
My day started with opening the curtains of the Clarion Prague City Hotel to see the farmers market stalls outside in the Vinohrady square. The plan was move to Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel in the central Prague Nove Mesto district, then walk back uphill and explore more of the Vinohrady district in places I have…
Over the past year I have taken a couple of Bratislava Free Walking Tours for Old Town and the Castle. In part one of my July Bratislava trip report photo essay, I covered parts of Bratislava with a photo essay of a walk from Radisson Blu Carlton Bratislava to the castle and crossing the Danube…
Bratislava, Slovakia is a 1hr 45m bus ride from Brno, Czech Republic. We stayed three days in Bratislava at the Radisson Blu Carlton Hotel. The weather was clear, dry and hot for the last week of July. Great for photos, but kind of uncomfortable for walking around Old Town with its limited greenery. Walking along…
In Stockholm for about 24 hours and staying at Clarion Hotel Stockholm in Sodermalm provided an opportunity to explore parts of Stockholm I had not visited before. I walked around 8 km/5 miles from the hotel along a waterfront nature cycling and pedestrian trail around the western side of Sodermalm island, then crossed a couple…
My wife and I were watching TV in our hotel room at Radisson Blu Waterfront Stockholm in Sweden on July 14, 2016 when ‘breaking news’ came on BBC of a truck running over people in a Nice, France Bastille Day terrorist attack. 86 people dead. 434 injured in Nice. My wife and I were watching…
Gdansk, Poland is the first European city ‘free walking tour’ I actually planned to attend out of my free walking tours in five different cities during the past year. Timing helped as I learned about the free guided walk at the Gdansk Tourist Information center. I was standing 50 meters from the tour starting point…
On my way back to the hotel after 8 hours of walking around the city on my own on my first full day touring Sofia, Bulgaria, I passed in front of the Palace of Justice at 6pm on a Sunday night. There was a group of people standing around by the steps, including more blondes…
After a full Sunday in Sofia, Bulgaria walking around for ten hours and snapping loads of photos, I developed initial impressions of the city. I like to get down my initial impressions of a place before time and exposure changes my perceptions. So, in no particular order of importance, here are some of my thoughts…
