Slow Travel and Food and Travel Blog for Trips to Savor
My adventure trip from Inuvik to the Arctic Ocean and to Herschel Island I will never forget my trip from Inuvik to the Arctic Ocean. From there we continued by bush plane to Herschel Island in the Beaufort Sea. Inuvik was the northernmost point in the Northwest Territories accessible by road during the summer when I was there.[…]
The baroque collegiate church of St. Peter in Bad Waldsee On our city tour through Bad Waldsee in Upper Swabia on the edge of the Allgäu we discover the collegiate church of St. Peter in Bad Waldsee, a real gem of baroque architecture. No wonder, really, as Dominikus Zimmermann - one of the "star architects" of the Baroque era - was the builder of the church, so [...]
There is something that Dublin embodies for me - and that is the front doors of the apartment buildings. The houses themselves appear uniform along the streets in the city center. If it weren't for the doors of Dublin.
Discover Bad Waldsee in Baden-Württemberg with its lake, the merchants' granary, the collegiate church of St. Peter and the princely castle of the von Waldburg-Wolfegg family. The Erwin Hymer Museum is also worth seeing.
Day trip to the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz The monks from the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz in the Vienna Woods are known primarily for the sensational success of their choir. They celebrated this with their Gregorian chants in both the Classic Charts and the Pop Charts. The CD Chant – Music for Paradise alone stormed immediately after its release[…]
On my travels around the world I have come across places that have saved themselves from economic ruin through surprising ideas and initiatives. But a village that has dedicated itself to poppy seeds wasn't there until we got to know the poppy village Armschlag in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria last year. There it turns [...]
Easter fountains are popular destinations in Franconia in spring. Especially in Franconia and the Upper Palatinate you can see Easter fountains on the village squares of many rural communities in the weeks before Easter.
We can recommend three Christmas markets in Salzburg. Christmas is especially beautiful in this city. Due to its location on the northern edge of the Alps, Salzburg is predestined to spread a Christmas spirit.
The Christmas market at Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin is located on the square, which is surrounded by two church buildings - the German Cathedral on one side of the square and the French Friedrichstadtkirche on the other. A Christmas tree completes the picture.
In Mayerling Castle in the Vienna Woods we are on the trail of one of the greatest tragedies of the Austrian imperial family. Was it suicide or murder of Crown Prince Rudolf and Mary Vetsera?
