Piazza de Spagna

The seasons have their  rights and they are notoriously fickle. Even in Rome. It is  colder here than usually in February,  and most of the time it's raining. However, nothing will prevent us from fulfiling the programme of our stay here, which is filled up to the minute with attractions which the ...

Giving respect to the Eternal City we started off at the Capitol Hill and museums located there. The Hill and the temple which used to be there, symbolized the power of Roman Empire and hence the name caput mundi - the head, which means the capital of the world. Michelangelo designed the impressiv...

Maspalomas

 Maspalomas is the oldest tourist resort in the southern part of the island. The place is known especially to local tourists for the hotels, beaches and dunes mostly in the Reserve Maspalomas. In Maspalomas is situated a 68 meters high lighthouse Faro de Maspalomas. It is located at the southern e...

New Year's Eve on Gran Canaria

New Year's Eve is  one of those days of the year, which imposes obligations if we did not have any others which we have to obey. In this day we have to cnoform the tradition, and even if we were sad, upset, or  in general felf bad, we have to enjoy, rejoice, laugh, dance and do what there was inven...

Las Palmas

To begin with, it's not canaries but dogs that gave the name of the archipelago of the Canary Islands. Its name Canary Islands owe to their dogs (from the Latin. Canis), which was home to great herds of those on the island. Only the name of the island gave name to a bird - a canary. Las Palmas de ...

Playa del Ingles

Playa del Inglés does not have a typical centrer; trade, services and restaurants are located in shopping malls (CC = Centro Comercial). A characteristic feature of most C.C. is their construction - the lower levels 2-3 are buried in the ground. Due to the mass audience, their offers are all simil...

Flying to Gran Canaria

So,  we are off to the Canary Islands, specifically to Gran Canaria. We are pleased to have got persuaded by Mark and Darek - our friends from Bydgoszcz to spend the New Year's Eve together inj the warmth of the Canary winter. From Wikipedia: "The Island of Gran Canaria, with its surface of almost ...

Times Square

Times Square - the crossroads of the world, is located at the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It is for  New York City what the Red Square is for  Moscow, the Champs Elysees for Paris, Trafalgar Square for London, Marszalkowska street for Warsaw and Brama Portowa for  Szczecin. (ha, ha)...