Tag: by night
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Kuala Lumpur – At the muddy river mouth
Mein Schiff Southeast Asia cruise: Day 10 – heading for Port Klang in the Strait of Malacca at 14.7 knots While we have already learned yesterday in our educational unit that we will reach the port of Klang this evening around 18:30 at a leisurely pace, we are now thinking the whole time back and…
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Laem Chabang Port/ Bangkok: Chinese New Year, temples and the Sky Bar
Mein Schiff Southeast Asia cruise: Day 5 – 11.9 km on foot – 04.02. 01:30 all hands on board – 04.02. 02:00 cast off – italic lines as always from Daniel – We experience everything probably a little more quietly than usual, whereby and the direct comparison is missing of course. Our driver, who brings…
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Singapore – Light show at the Gardens by the Bay
Mein Schiff Southeast Asia cruise: Day 1 – lay day until tomorrow – italic lines as always from Daniel – We finally arrived. After two trouble-free flights from Berlin – with unfortunately extremely long waiting times, so never again Tegel – via Doha (Qatar) to Singapore although still somewhat flattened, since it is still plus…
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Palma de Mallorca in November
A glimpse of summer right before Christmas This weekend I was in Palma with a dear friend of mine. Finally, after three years when we decided to go on a trip together, we made it. Our treat – we both turned 30 this year – was to go to Mallorca for three days. Coincidentally all…
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Ideas for a weekend or layover in Amsterdam
KL1780 from HAM to AMS & KL3091 from AMS to RIX Now vacation travel is definitely over for me, I needed to see a dear friend of mine in Amsterdam. Although we happened to be in the exact same city just a weekend before, I went there again yesterday and it got me thinking. What…
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Last night already – Al Seef shopping & dining
My business trip comes to an end already and I didn’t want to miss the chance to go and explore this magic city, again. Tonight, I’ve ubered to Al Seef Shopping Center, a brand new venue that, like La Mer, is bordered by water and pairs the Oriental flair of 1,001 nights a Mediterranean touch.…
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A sunset on the beach at La Mer, Dubai
While I wasn’t aware that even in taxis drinking is not considered polite and you could even get arrested if anybody pointed at you and telling the police, the full extend of Ramadan hit me as soon as I went out to spend my evening. My colleagues have referred La Mer, a beautifully situated shopping…
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A long layover in Quito, Ecuador
Day 7 – UA1035 from IAH to UIO & waiting for AV1620 – from UIO to GYE As you can tell I have had a lot of time in the past 24 hours to get together some blog posts about our recent trip to Washington, to edit all photos I took so far and to…
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Washington, D.C. – Around The Mall
Day 4 – from Brnachville, NJ, to Washington, D.C., and 4 km by foot through Washington, D.C. (comments in Italic by Daniel) With a lot of sightseeing stops on our list, ready to be crossed out, we got off at the Smithsonian and just wandered around a bit, after spending almost five hours in the…
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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…
