Palma de Mallorca

Palma de Mallorca is the capital and largest city of the Balearic Islands and the island of Mallorca (Balearic Islands got their name from ancient Greeks after the Greek word slingshot, because it was a weapon of the local tribes). The city is one of the biggest tourist centers of the world. Palma ...

Port Adriano

Port Adriano is a beautifully designed marina on the south west coast of the island. Instead of a  typical "parking lot" for yachts, a visionary architect Philippe Starck has created a beautiful place where one can not only fill up the yachts, but also  relax in the charming atmosphere of the bay. ...

New Year's Eve on the Beach?

Mallorca welcomed us with full sunshine and the temperature approx. 16 ° C. Our place is in Palmanowa- about 20 km away from the airport. Hence, close to many golf courses which are one of our goals.  But before we get to know the rules of golf - we are celebrating New Year's Eve and midnight on t...

Good-bye to Paris

Three days in Paris seemed to me one moment. Time to get back to reality. Our friends are also already flying back to the US. We’re arranging for another meeting - we would like it to be again Paris. There are so much more to seet. Even once again ... The last walk through the Latin Quarter among...

Musee d'Orsya

Unexpectedly, the next day it turned out that the strike in museums ended up. So we could see the collection in d’Orsay. Naturally, all of those works can be seen on a thousand reproductions, but "live" contact makes a lot more fun. For this is a great atmosphere inside the museum which was once a ...

Paris through those who are gone

Père-Lachaise Cemetery, the largest and most famous cemetery in Paris was founded in 1804 in the gardens adjacent to Villa Mont-Louis, donated by Louis XIX her confessor, Père Lachaise (Father Lachaise). Hence the name of the cemetery. In a warm afternoon we went (by metro) to the cemetery. Each of...

Paris - step by step

Full of music impressions after the jazz concert,  we got a still greater desire for visual effects – we decided to start with  the Musee d'Orsay. It was as a very impressive decision of  Paris city authorities to waive the demolition of a decaying train station and turn it into an art museum. Not ...

Already in Paris!

EasyJet took us to the airport Orly, from which, by tramway (!) and metro we got to our hotel in the 6th district - right on the Boulevard Saint-Germain - in the heart of the Latin Quarter. I wondered why the university district is so called. Well, in the Middle Ages until the French Revolution in ...