change is the essence of life
Hey there 😀 I'm writing these lines from my new place in Weimar but this article is much more about the month before I moved to Thuringia. Around this time last year I was travelling Eastern Europa by train with my interrail ticket, and while I was busy walking through cities and listening to tour … Continue reading #Parlis: Cycling Europe – from the idea to the first kilometers on the bike
Hallo und herzlich willkommen! zu meinem ersten Artikel auf Deutsch auf dieser Seite... hier und heute geht es um ganz viele Kilometer auf dem Rennrad und eine tolles Charity-Event in Irland. Wer mich schon ein wenig länger kennt und mir bei blogventure.eu schon gefolgt ist, erinnert sich vielleicht an die große Radtour quer durch Irland … Continue reading Radeln für den guten Zweck: Galway Cycle
Hello everyone 🙂 alongside work, my travel year 2017 continues with some great adventures. Already just before I left for my interrail trip through Eastern Europe a good friend asked me if we couldn't do another road trip together this summer. Always up for an adventure, I suggested to figure out details when I get … Continue reading On Scandinavian Roads
Hi everyone, the last stop of my interrail tour in March was Istanbul in Turkey. This visit took place about 3 weeks before the referendum in April. Due to all the political tensions and problems during the past months, I'm not quite sure how to describe my impressions of that city and country. When I … Continue reading Interrail #8 Multicultural Clash in empty Istanbul
Welcome back everyone! Train travel About twelve hours and a passport check and country border later, I'm still on the train in the middle of nowhere somewhere in Romania. The train is running late and it's getting dark, additionally the staff as well as most other people don't speak or understand neither English nor German … Continue reading Interrail #7 Thousands of Years of Tolerance in Sofia
Welcome to the Hungarian capital! 🙂 After walking the narrow paths of Venice and the broad streets of Vienna, Budapest has a totally different atmosphere - rather Eastern European. However, the city and the whole country have a long history of being torn between East and West. This back and forth has shaped the outer … Continue reading Interrail #6 The Old Myths of Budapest
Hello and welcome to another episode of my Interrail trip 🙂 Four days in Vienna - a city buzzing of culture and music of all kinds. For me, doing a cultural enthusiast, it's been one of the best places I visited during this interrail trip in March. Since words can barely describe what you can … Continue reading Interrail #5 The Cultural Hotspot Vienna
Hello and welcome to today's tour along the canals of Venice, between leaving Prague and reaching Venice I travelled a whole day through Austria and parts of Italy. During lunchtime I had a break of two hours in Innsbruck and was totally amazed by the view of the mountains so close to the city. Coming … Continue reading Interrail #4 Italian Cuisine in Venice
Let's pick up where I left you the last time: Leaving Cologne on the 9th March for Warsaw, travelling to Krakow the next evening, this article starts on Monday, 13th March. I wake up in my train bed just arriving in Prague in the early morning. In front of the window I can watch the sun rising over the green meadows on my way through another foreign country - it's beautiful. Come along with me through the cosy side streets, gorgeous parks and the busy Old Town of Prague!
Dear reader, some fellow travellers might know the feeling of amazement and exhaustion that accompanies almost every longer trip you do. Days turn into weeks and weeks feel like months, you experience so many different things that it's sometimes hard to remember at night how the day actually started.. if you still wonder what I'm … Continue reading Interrail #1 The Reconstruction of Warsaw