Florence by night
When I was in San Marino I took some photographs with my small gorillapod and long shutter speeds. It had been some years since I last had done it, but it was really fun, and I really liked the outcome. So when I got to …
Etikett: 2017
Views over Florence
Who else loves great views? When I’m in a new city I always try to get inside towers or hills to get a view over the city. In Florence there are many places to visit to get beautiful views over the city and surroundings. Fort …
Piazza Duomo, Florence
After 2 nights in San Marino my trip continued to Florence. Here I stayed at an Airbnb just next to Maria Novella train station. I thought the location was good, I always like to be near the train station and the centre at the same …
A day in San Marino
Well okey, I admit it, when I realized San Marino was quite near the other places I was going to visit on my trip in Italy, I saw my chance to check another country of the list, it would be my 34th country. I didn’t …
Five hours in Venice
There is something special about Venice. I had heard both good and not so good things about it before I went there. The not so good being that there are too many tourists. Because of that my expectations weren’t that high, but I didn’t want …
Snapshots from Verona
It felt like we picked the hottest day ever to go to Verona! We arrived around 11 am and it was already super hot. We were 8 people from the castle on this little trip so there wasn’t that much sightseeing being done. But it …
Montagnana, Italy
The first little trip we took from the castle was to Montagnana. It was only around 30 minutes drive through the beautiful countryside from Villa Bartolomea. Montagnana is a small village with an old town surrounded by a well preserved medieval city wall and is …
Castle life in Villa Bartolomea, Italy
This July I spent 16 days in northern Italy. The first week I stayed with some friends and after that I travelled solo for another week. The first week we spent at a medieval castle in Villa Bartolomea. I was there to celebrate a …
A day in Granada, Spain
During my trip to Málaga I did a day trip to Granada. Granada is a beautiful city with a lot of history around 1,5 hour away from Málaga by bus. It’s mostly famous for the Alhambra, a 1000 year old palace located on a hill …
A day in Gibraltar
My first day trip from Málaga was to Gibraltar. Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory with 30 000 inhabitants. As I said in the previous post Gibraltar was one of the main reasons I actually went to Málaga. It took 3 hours with the bus …
Bikeride along La Malagueta, second day in Málaga
The first morning in Málaga I went to the Mercado Central Atarazanas. This is a big food market, which happened to be just outside my apartment, where they sell fresh fruit, meat, fish, shellfish and spices. They had all kinds of fresh fruit and it …
First day in Málaga
So, I recently got home from my second solo trip. The trip was to Málaga in southern Spain. I had some time of from work so I decided to go somewhere warm to relax. I only knew I wanted to go somewhere warm, but since …