Category: On the road
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On the trail of Luke Skywalker in Ireland – around Inishowen Peninsula
Ireland road trip in a week: Homebase in Letterkenny (Comments in italics by Johanna and Daniel) McGinley’s Pub, Letterkenny. We meet Paul. At least we call him Paul… This Irish accent is still not so easy. > The assumption is obvious, though, since John and Paul seem to be two of the most common male…
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Sightseeing on a day trip from Northern Ireland to the North of Ireland
Ireland Roadtrip: Dublin – Belfast – Letterkenny, 361 km (Comments in italics by Johanna and Daniel) Sightseeing in Northern Ireland: Titanic Museum in Belfast “The beds were damn small back then”. What amazed us the most was not the unimaginable noise from the steel nails hammering, from which the workers went deaf, the fact that…
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Spontaneous ski trip to Zurich, Switzerland
EW7763 from ZRH to HAM As Daniels plans for the weekend wouldn’t involve me, I thought – why stay at home? So I texted my friend who recently moved to Zurich and luckily he didn’t have any plans. So on Friday, I was on the plane to Zurich with my skiing outfit in my luggage. Plans…
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Around Potsdamer Platz – a short trip to Berlin
I have the pleasure to stay in Berlin this week. Our capital is less than two hours of a train ride away from Hamburg and Daniel needs to work over there. So I decided to come, too, because I was flexible this week. The hotel we stay at couldn’t be more central: Marriott Berlin at…
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Non-exhaustive list of fine dining (and drinking) in Hamburg
Years of Media Management experience have brought me an extensive knowledge of some of the best options to lunch, dine and go out for drinks in Hamburg. The following are stylish, sometimes a bit more pricy, locations where I enjoyed being taken by good folks. // 20up – fantastic seats by the window, overlooking…
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Under the Red Sea – Diving and snorkeling on the shore of Sharm el Sheikh
from Sharm el Sheikh Marina to somewhere on the Red Sea Staying at the Marriott hotel, as always, wasn’t that pleasant, unlike always. What providence that at least the diving school with their warm, friendly staff (especially Mohamed and Yesir, hope I spell the names right) made our diving and snorkeling trips a fantastic time.…
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Security in Egypt
writing on NP052 from SSH to CAI The security measures at the Egyptian airport Sharm el Sheikh are high even for domestic flights. Without passport and vehicle control we do not even get to the parking lot in front of the terminal building. Thereby, an official with mirror goes around the car and looks so…
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A snapshot of Cairo in a day – the ultimate sightseeing guide
writing on MS20 from CAI to SSH As we’re flying back, leaning against the more comfortable Egypt Air backrest (compared to Nile Air in the morning), I have the chance to recall the day. In a nutshell: It all went very well and we felt safe, despite the recent terrorist attacks. I consider it luck…
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Red Sea Lover
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Typical conversation in an Egyptian bar
“A chardonnay, please” – “Ooh, we don’t have that.” – “May I see the menu? Thank you” (…) “There, a “Jardin de Nile”, Chardonnay, please”. The bartender’s face brightens, “Yes, please. Red or white?”
