Park Güell

Park Güell is a large garden with architectural elements designed by the Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí at the request of his friend Eusebio Güell, a Barcelona industrialist who financed this city  investment. The work took place in the years 1900-1914.  Gaudí never completed the project. In one of...

Barcelona Easter Thursday

EasyJet has brought us to the capital of Catalonia. It greeted us here with beautiful spring weather and huge traffic before Christmas on Thursday. Good Friday is a day off from work here. Barcelona - is the second largest city in Spain. It occupies 100.4 km ² and has 1 621 537 inhabitants. We are...

Award for the persistent

Today a special award for our persistent readers: After a farewell drink at The Balcony - a well-known place in the entertainment centre of Bangkok - we went to the biggest disco in the city - the DJ Station. What kind of music they "give" there, is easy to imagine,  a little harder to take it to ...

Farewell to Asia

 Our winter holidays (according to the Polish seasons) are approaching their end. Today we are taking  farewell to Bangkok and Thailand. Time to get back to the reality. We hope that we have been able to, at least in part, through this blog to pass on our impressions of the trip. We have reinforce...

Chiang Mai The Temple Hill

The ninth of January 2011 we were at the top of Doi Suthep, commonly known as the Chiang Mai and then we wrote: "A beautiful temple Wat Phra That Doi was built in the thirteenth century on the side of a mountain - Doi Suthep. The construction site was pointed by an elephant which had been freely le...

The northern most Thailand

Early in the morning we set off for touring northern Thailand. That meant going from Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai and then further north. That day trip took 13 hours in a relatively heavy traffic and we covered 600 km Fortunately we had a very good, responsible driver. He drove very fast, anyway! The ro...

Chiang Mai by night

Well, eventually, we had an adventure! More than 3 hours of driving down from Pai to Chiang Mai with a crazy driver. Not only was he driving like a maniac (12 people on board and a lot of luggage on the roof), but he refused  to turn off the air recirculation, which resulted in the cruel stifling of...

An afternoon in Pai

A minibus of  the inside like a good airplane was driving us around the Pai region for five hours. We tried not to be caught by typical tourist traps: An elephant ride for 15 minutes for 100.00 zł  for the animal. We did not buy any souvenirs and or looked at the clothes. We went to see a dry cany...