Casa del Sol Restaurant
Who knew that by signing up for this meetup group photo-walk it would offer one of the best walking tours of Ibiza?! and better yet-at absolutely no cost. Not to mention the added benefit of touring around with locals who later provided a friend and I with suggestions to visit their favourite and closely guarded discovery of a cafe, beach or secret place with a great view. Continue Reading…
The portal city of Hamburg was not at all what I expected. Heading from the nearby airport into the city I was fascinated with the “green-ness” of this 1.7 million person city chock full of 5 million trees.
As my friendly airport taxi cab driver explained to me “Even the airline pilots flying into Hamburg for the first time have a moment of panic seeing all the trees, thinking something must be wrong with their plane’s navigation system- it just cannot be possible to have a huge city airport in the middle of a forest!”
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They were fascinating little works of art made from wood, metal, paper, geese, chickens and more! The details, colours and themes were varied; from geometrics, animals to little little Swiss children playing. What could be more Spring-like than spending an afternoon at the Spielzeugmuseum (Toy Museum) in Reihen, Switzerland at their Easter boutique? The collection of delicately hand painted Easter eggs must be closely and slowly inspected to be fully appreciated. Continue Reading…
Meandering into the small courtyard filled with tiny wooden stalls of handmade goods, I am especially drawn towards the tenderly stitched fabric chickens right beside a nearby a caged area of straw with real bunnies peering about. I start to feel as if I had stepped back in time. With a medieval church and castle on the hill overlooking this little hamlet, I really do wonder if I have been dropped into a fairy tale where I might see a troll or fairy perched on one of the window sills of this enchanted village.
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