What's in a weekend break? For some it is the opportunity to visit new places and meet new people, for some others it is the chance to bond with their friends and family. And for many it is the chance to live a life they can't have. For three long days you can be a...
This is a city I often fly to, but I rarely stay. This time it was for a business conference and I would stay for three days. The first evening, I had a pleasent surprise. A good friend of a good friend, whom I also know, was also in Vienna for the day and we decided...
Right after my return from Madagascar, I visited London for three days. It has been a while since my last visit and forgot what a great city it is. Lovely restaurants, an excellent theater and art scene, an international crowd, great shopping, in other words a city...
The zoo is a form of meditation to me. Whenever I get the chance, especially when I feel the blues, I ll go to the local zoo. Last week, I was in Prague for a business trip and had the opportunity to visit the Prague zoo, considered by many as one of the top 20 in the...
It was a bold decision to spend one week in Iceland during the summer. Being Greek, vacation means beach and sunbathing, so the idea to spend the entire summer holidays in freezing temperatures was a bit too much. We had just one week and we did not want to spend it...
We were looking for a place to go in August and started wandering around the web for ideas to visit different distant destinations like Borneo, Costa Rica and Uganda. But we wanted to keep the trip length to ten days max, so we narrowed our search to places closer to...
We saved the last day to see Reykjavik, a town combining Iceland's culture with a modern European metropolis. With a population of 200 thousand, it is small but full of life, traditional but trendy and certainly full of surprises. Colorful Downtown Reykjavik draws...
After a good breakfast, we left at around 10:30 to visit the Great Geysir, about 100km east. This the real thing, the geyser, after which all geyeirs are named. It used to blow hot water at 60-70m high - once it reached 122m - but it was clogged when, allegedly, some...
We started the tour of the Snaefell peninsula in heavy fog and rain, the worst weather since we arrived. Ten km west of Grundarfjörður, we saw a "Dead Whale" sign on the right. We followed the rough road between the green covered lava fields, facing an impressive...
After a short debate, we decided to take the first boat to whale watching, despite the warnings for bad weather, high risk to suffer nausea and not being able to see whales. It was sunny but obviously out in the open, it was rough. We wore the special fishing overalls...