Miniatur Wunderland – the world’s largest model railway in Hamburg, Germany Updated: October 27, 2020 | By Claire | More In Hamburg, Germany there is the largest model railway in the world. It’s called the Miniature Wonderland and occupies an entire floor in a former warehouse in the district of Speicherstad. Sophisticated giant size yard […]
Categories: Amusement and Theme Parks, Germany
Therme Erding – Europe’s biggest thermal water world and sauna paradise | Germany Updated: October 27, 2020 | By Claire | More Therme Erding is a gigantic thermal world, which lies in Bavaria close to München, offers not only the longest European slide, but also the largest sauna paradise in the world. It is also […]
Categories: Germany, Wellness, Relax & Sports
Echternach is Luxembourg’s oldest city — a storybook medieval town tucked into the lush Müllerthal Valley right on the German border. Founded in 698 AD around its magnificent Benedictine abbey, Echternach blends ancient history with a vibrant cultural scene, floral-lined streets, and access to some of Luxembourg’s most enchanting hiking trails. It’s the perfect day […]
Categories: Luxembourg, Sights
Dresden – a charming city with a unique blend of art and culture in Germany Updated: October 27, 2020 | By Claire | More German charming city of Dresden is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech and Polish borders. Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence […]
Categories: Germany, Sights, Virtual Travel
Wrocław is one of Poland’s most vibrant and architecturally stunning cities — a colourful tapestry of Gothic spires, Baroque palaces, and modernist landmarks spread across 12 islands and over 100 bridges. Known as the “Venice of Poland,” this Lower Silesian gem has reinvented itself as a cultural powerhouse, crowned European Capital of Culture in 2016 […]
The white chalk cliffs of Jasmund National Park on Germany’s Rügen Island are one of northern Europe’s most dramatic coastal landscapes — gleaming white Cretaceous cliffs rising 118 metres above the Baltic Sea from ancient beech forest, immortalised in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and now a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Königsstuhl (King’s […]
Šumava National Park is the Czech Republic’s largest protected area — an immense expanse of ancient forest, peat bogs, and glacial lakes along the Bavarian border that forms the green heart of Central Europe and one of the continent’s most important wilderness landscapes. Known in German as the Böhmerwald (Bohemian Forest), Šumava is a UNESCO […]
Categories: Czech Republic, Nature
České Švýcarsko (Bohemian Switzerland) National Park is one of the most photogenic landscapes in the Czech Republic — a fantasy realm of towering sandstone rock pillars, deep mossy gorges, and the iconic Pravčická brána, the largest natural sandstone arch in Europe, whose film-set appearance (it featured in The Chronicles of Narnia) draws hikers and photographers […]
Categories: Czech Republic, Nature
Röthbachfall – the highest waterfall in Germany Updated: May 28, 2020 | By Claire | More Featuring a drop of more than 470 meters, the Röthbachfall is considered to be the tallest German waterfalls. The falls themselves are located within the Berchtesgaden National Park and can be found near the Obersee Lake. The Röthbachfall is […]
Neuschwanstein Castle is the most famous fairy-tale castle in the world — the soaring Romanesque Revival fantasy of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, perched dramatically on a rocky Alpine outcrop above the village of Hohenschwangau, whose turrets, towers, and white limestone walls inspired Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty Castle and have become the single most iconic […]
