Slow Travel and Food and Travel Blog for Trips to Savor
The place Heiligenblut in Carinthia, Austria, is known as a ski resort. In summer it is the starting point for the journey to the Großglockner from the southern end of the Großglockner High Alpine Road. Those who stay in Heiligenblut for a long time will also find good opportunities for hiking there. The gold digging village of Heiligenblut is also worth seeing.
Anyone interested in Holland, its art and history should visit the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. There you get to know Dutch masters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer or Van Gogh. You immerse yourself in the history of the Dutch East India Company. You can also learn a lot about the Dutch.
We are in the Bata Shoe Museum Toronto. The Bata Shoe Museum is near the Royal Ontario Museum on Bloor Street. In this museum you can learn a lot about the role of shoes around the world. We meet the founder of the museum, Sonja Bata. She tells us how she got her shoe collection.
“What is a Spanish monastery doing in Miami Beach?” You are probably wondering. We asked ourselves the same question. We discovered the Ancient Spanish Monastery on the map while preparing for our winter trip to Florida. I had never heard of it before. But the reference on the Google map did not give me any [...]
A tip for a road trip through New England: the descendants of the American President Abraham Lincoln once lived in Hildene in Manchester Vermont. Today you can visit the manor house. The gardens in particular are worth a visit.
The good old days are coming back to life in the Upper Canada Village in Ontario, Canada. Every summer, millers, woodworkers, weavers and tailors work with original machines from the 19th century in the craft shops in the Upper Canada Village in Ontario.
Rural idyll as it used to look in Franconia. This is shown by the Bad Windsheim open-air museum. On the outskirts of the Franconian health resort, not far from Rothenburg od Tauber, is the farmer's museum with its Franconian farmhouses.
This is exactly how I imagined Sweden to be: pretty, red-painted wooden houses with proper, white windows with crochet curtains blocking the view of the interior. But blooming cherry trees and wild violets attract our attention.
The monastery museum Stein am Rhein is worth a visit. The Benedictine Abbey of St. Georgen is considered to be one of the best-preserved monastery complexes in Switzerland. The construction phases between the 12th and 16th centuries can still be clearly seen today.
We are located in the Highland Village Museum, an Iona open air museum on Cape Breton Island. Here you can experience the history of the Scots in Nova Scotia up close in a village. We walk from one house to another and go through time.
