Museum of Medieval Stockholm: informative & free!

Medieval-Museum-Stockholm-Lady-at-window

On a recent work trip to Stockholm, a colleague and I had no sightseeing plans. We walked around the city. We discovered the Museum of Medieval Stockholm by chance. My colleague wanted a coffee at the little kiosk just below the bridge near the Parliament House. In fact, the Museum of Medieval Stockholm is located under …

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The making of Dutch wooden shoes at Zaanse Schans

Dutch Wooden Shoe making at the Zaanse Schans village near Amsterdam.

After arriving at Zaanse Schans, which is less than 20 minutes from Amsterdam, we decided to first go to the Dutch wooden shoe workshop. We had never seen Dutch wooden clogs before and wanted to learn more about these shoes. Click here for the ultimate list of bucket list items for Amsterdam! Please note that …

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What train travel in Malaysia is like

Train Travel in Malaysia

When we wanted to travel from Kuala Lumpur to Penang, there were flights available, and they were not too expensive either. The flight from Kuala Lumpur Airport to Penang International Airport only takes an hour and cost on average about $75 and upwards. The train journey takes about 6 hours and only cost about $15 …

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Royal Bintang Hotel: is a good location enough?

Royal Bintang Hotel Room

We arrived in the afternoon in Kuala Lumpur after taking a relaxing train ride from Butterworth to Kuala Lumpur Railway Station. We were quite tired, but looking forward to what Kuala Lumpur offers. Excitedly we made our way from the Kuala Lumpur Railway Station to the Royale Bintang Hotelwhich we had booked for the few days …

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Exploring Basel a bit more….

Exploring Basel

After a short nap and refreshing in the hotel, I decided that it was such a lovely day that I should not spend it indoors. Exploring Basel at the Spalenring tram stop I took a tram from the tram stop in front of the Basel Bahnhof SBB to the Spalenring stop and got off to …

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Exploring Basel Switzerland – boring or brilliant?

Exploring Basel

When my friends and colleagues heard that I was planning on spending some time exploring Basel Switzerland they were not enthusiastic at all. Most of them told me that Basel is not enormous and there was not a lot to see. I thought it would be better to see for myself whether this is true. …

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