Travel to Warsaw

Warsaw is a city in east-central Poland and its capital with population of roughly 1.750.000. A city of contrasts with the recent past still fresh in the memories of most citizens, especially the older ones. Only the younger generation seems to escape from the nightmares of the past. The Poles have a classy look, without being snobs; they are a cultured people with a good soul.

In 1945, after the blitz, the protests, the fights and destructions the greatest part of Warsaw was rubble. Almost 85% of the city was destroyed, including the historic Old Town and the Royal Castle. Poles, men, women and children, with the help of communist parties from neighbouring countries, rebuilt the city from scratch after the Second World War. The tried to rebuild as it was, using only old records, photos and artist's impressions. As Poland entered the EU in 2004, Warsaw's economy is going through the largest historical growth spurt.
The river Vistula splits the city in two: the right bank - called Praga - is traditionally considered poorer and less interesting from a tourist's perspective wheres most interesting sights are in the left bank.

Warsaw is a very clean city and has an underground network of two lines, many buses & trams. The city is full of squares & parks although due to the season they were covered in snow. There are many fantastic examples of Architecture from the Gothic, Renascence, Baroque and New-classical periods. Museums, castles & palaces that visitors can explore but also picturesque alleyways with bars that tourists can enjoy an aromatic glass of warm beer, especially in cold weather. 

Split in effectively two cities, with the older section by far the most picturesque and interesting part of the city (in Unesco's protected cultural heritage list) and the newer city with modern buildings, reminders of the architecture styles of socialist realism. Large, wide roads, huge squares and huge, towering skyscrapers. Warsaw, along with Frankfurt, London, Paris & Rotterdam is one of the cities with the highest number of skyscrapers in Europe.

Warsaw's gastronomy will pleasantly surprise you, with many opportunities to try not only traditional Polish delicacies, but also international cuisine.

We walked for endless hours around the city, with varying weather conditions but the most memorable walk, was a stroll along the Vistula, one frozen sunset, the city covered in fog, the blue lights of the river bridge arches lighting our way. An outlandish landscape for our eyes and senses.

Travel to London

In the recent trip to the most beloved of all our destinations, London, we had beautiful time, we pass always beautiful…
We walked, had fun, wandered, enjoyed, tasted flavors favorite but also unfamiliar flavors in ethnic Kitchens.

It was very nice weather so the interest of our search focused on the outdoors in sheltered or outdoor markets, with rare sometimes food & dishes in the streets and squares photographing and admiring gorgeous old but also super modern buildings, churches and sculptures, the riparian Thames with its beautiful bridges and small tributaries and of course the unique beauty of palaces, castles and towers.

Green parks fully equipped for rest, relaxation, training or sports, with lakes for fishing, that the crossing wooden bridges, with lush vegetation, that you put bet that this can not be in the heart of London. Or in the botanical gardens of unique beauty and enormous scientific work, such as the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, was founded in 1840 and which host the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collection in the world. In Kew Gardens has created the Millennium Seed Bank. Today, there are stored samples from 10% of all the world's plants, and by 2020 experts aspire to gather samples from 25% to save the world from an upcoming ecological disaster.

Everywhere we find spaces, small shops to buy stylish items, have lunch, drink our coffee and to rest from the long hike. Wherever we went people were long. Young, old enjoyed their ride.

We certainly visited and known, and our favorite museums and art galleries and photography but also places unknown to us until now. We made ourselves at the busiest commercial streets with incredible rush! Those who follow and Facebook would certainly have seen the pictures I send all of them. Here today I will simply show you some of the culinary delights of our trip and a small, very small sample of our wanderings!
And do not forget the London of 9 million inhabitants is a museum city, enjoy it through my own look through my camera lens!

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CHANIA Harbour & Old Town

Chania is one of the oldest towns in Crete, with a rich and eventful history. Today is the second largest city of the island, a city that has preserved its traditional architecture in the most part, and especially in the old town and most of the monuments from the time of the Venetians and the Turks preserved and displayed.
The Venetian harbor with its lighthouse and the old city center have given Chania the reputation of the most picturesque town in Crete, which hosts thousands of visitors every year.
Chania is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Greece, both for Greeks and for foreign visitors. Attracting so many visitors from around the world just is not by chance, as Chania combines incredible natural beauty with a rich history and important cultural tradition with good tourist infrastructure.

À Paris... (1)

À Paris

Des milliers des milliers et des milliers d'années
Ne sauraient suffire pour dire
La petite seconde d'éternité
Où tu m'as embrassé
Où je t'ai embrassée
Un matin dans le lumière de l'hiver
Au parc Montsouris
À Paris
À Paris sur la Terre
La Terre qui est un astre
… …
Et la main dans la main
Ils vont sans se frapper
Regardant en chemin
Si Paris a changé

A return to our old cherished sites and our old walk is always a very loved, very important destination. It reminds us of our youth, our carefree outlook on life, the bohemian lifestyle and erstwhile our culture. Having lived nearly 10 years of our lives in Paris we feel and deal with emotion and sensitivity as our second home. Not missing the opportunity, whenever she allow us to do this rejuvenation journey, joy and wellness. Whatever it is written below you should know that it will be influenced by the love we have for this city, it will be a completely personal opinion and of course less impartial.
The first part of the "tour" concerns only a small part of the culinary theme of nutrition and food in general. The wide variety of goods often outsourced from afar, rare or not, cheap or expensive. There will be a second with what I have to show you about Paris and hope to complete the journey there without becoming tedious.

It's unique sense of experiencing again situations and experiences which he had once known. It's like a trip back in time, or as if you never missed! All have changed, everything to stay the same, untouched and unchanged from wear. Do you turn the corner and fall onto your favorite Coffee Shop, Creperie and Restaurant, a small oven neighborhood famed for its superb French baguette and its croissant, your old neighborhoods, unique buildings, bridges, palaces, museums, churches, parks, gardens, squares. The «Art Nouveau» Metro stations are very few (one or two) with their old glazed roof, your school and the wonderful endless paths and walks along the banks of the Seine, the most beautiful river of the land! To remember the times when you came here, near the «Pont des Arts» loaded with pencils and your papers to impressions in sketches with pencils colored the opposite side, where so far, and this was the south wing of the Louvre in the color of memory and sepia! Autumn season, to have fallen the tree leaves to be able to see the whole building without it hiding behind the foliage, a season that the leaves have paved a yellow carpet on the cobblestones of the bank and the air drifts them away like memories …

Travel to China

你好! Nǐ hǎo! Hello!
The much talked about, trip to China was a lifelong dream and became a family affair to get it to be realized. Discussed months ago, decided, planned, initiated and completed in October of '15. Preparations for this trip were quite lengthy, as had become a series of procedures not only bureaucratic forms, passport, visa, etc., and timing, tour desk, problem details, selection of cities and interesting, the most important tourist destinations, as though programming vaccines etc…
We traveled to five Chinese cities using planes, high speed trains (300 km/h) and Maglev Train (magnetic train with a speed of 430 km/h and the distance of 30 km from the city of Shanghai to the airport covered just 8') and ship. It was more concentrated in terms of journey trips, we had ever done. The posture and movement alterations were short and dense between them, and the vast distances and the images and information bombing.
We discovered places of incredible beauty and unique presence, tasted authentic Chinese Cuisine, we walked for hours, soaking up the secrets of the Imperial Forbidden City, we admired the size of the vanity of the Emperor and the Terracotta Army, climbed to all yellow rice fields, along with the long-suffering local population, and wondered upon the ramparts of oversized Great Wall. We crossed sailing 83 km along the reaches of the beautiful Li River, a gallery of nature. We saw fishermen to fish using trained cormorants, we bike ride on a fortification wall 700 years (Ming Dynasty in 1370), we enjoyed our evenings beautifully lit banks of lakes and tastefully designed parks, the sound of Chinese music in clean cities. Mixed in with a bustling crowd, were guided by lovely gardens with old trees, sacred pagodas, world heritage sites, museums, markets, we felt the Economic "Heart" of China beating at a rapid pace and more. We have seen the history passing before us the best moments of the human species but "heard" the moan of all those that struggled to make all.
Today I present only part of the culinary, diverse and multiethnic Chinese Kitchen without words and without the special tasty choices of some Chinese, which are far from ours and may cause feelings of aversion.

Cuisines of the World

London, a populous and multiethnic capital, is considered a city/state. Global economic giant, where everything is more expensive than in any other city or region of England.
The land, buildings, salaries, wages, supermarket prices, rent, food, entertainment, health, insurance, transportation and many other "dance" at their own pace. The only thing free is Museums. Thus we have the opportunity to enjoy amazing things, what the british empire gathered all these years.
Besides all the above, London is a popular destination and whenever possible I do not lose the opportunity for a trip.
It offers many things to see and do, that your travel days are never enough.
Today's tour will be about dining in various national cuisines, with an emphasis to those of the East!