Peranakan Tile Gallery, Chinatown, Singapore

When travelling exploring cities and suburbs by foot has many advantages. One of them is that you inadvertently come across hidden treasures which aren’t mentioned in travel guidebooks or itinerary...

Going around Valencia and Barcelona

This report is about a carefree summer in which I visited Spain for the first time, and I chose two classic destinations for the period and considered evergreen. I'm glad I saw them, and I think they...

Should I wear boots or runners on Camino de Santiago?

I love my hiking boots – they are the most comfortable shoes I own. Before I set out on camino I received a lot advice that you could do the walk in trail runners, that hiking boots were...

Walking the Camino de Santiago? Blister prevention tips

Blisters. It’s a word that strikes fear in the heart of many pilgrims setting out on the Camino de Santiago. If you are walking the full 800 kms of the French Way, or just the last 100 kms to...

Shoes on the Danube River Bank - a Budapest Hungary, memorial

The Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial in Budapest, Hungary. Designed and created on the east bank of the Danube river by film director Can Togay, and sculpted by Gyula Pauer, to honour the Jews...

Cuban Art Factory from factory in ruin to 100 best places in the world

The Cuban Art Factory has passed in just over five years of being a small experiment in a dilapidated industrial building to be according to the prestigious Time magazine among the 100 best places in...