Tag: sightseeing
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Kirklees Light Railway train ride: A fun day out in Yorkshire for the littlest ones
The attraction, a cute little narrow-gauge railroad, runs from Kirklees past Cuckoo’s Nest and the village of Skelmanthorpe through a long, dark tunnel to stop at Shelley. At the end of the line, which was once used to transport mined coal from the nearby mountain road to the wash site (probably not narrow gauge at…
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Chatsworth House
Ich bin großer Downton Abbey Fan (im realen Leben bekannt als Highclere Castle), aber dieses „House“ toppt es noch mal. Zwar war ich vor zwanzig Jahren schon einmal hier, allerdings sieht man die Welt durch Kinderaugen doch etwas anders. Neben dem Fakt, dass der echte Duke, also ein Herzog, einfach an uns vorbei“geschlufft“ ist, als…
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Kyoto in a nutshell: The scent of spring during cherry blossom season
writing on Hikari 528 Shinkansen, car 6, seat 10-A Two and a half days are just too short for the wonderful city of Kyoto, where cherry trees are in full bloom right now. Sakura – cherry blossom What I like most is that it smells like spring here thanks to the many cherry trees. It’s…
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Street Art in George Town zu Fuß erkunden
 Tag 11 – Penang, Malaysia – 19:30 Uhr alle Mann an Bord – 20:00 Uhr Ablegen Nachdem wir uns am Vormittag in Jurassic Park-Manier Orang Utans angeschaut haben, haben wir nun noch einen halben Tag Zeit, den Anlegeort zu Fuß zu erkunden. Angenehm ist, dass wir heute alles im direkten Umkreis der Mein Schiff 3…
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Ausflug zum Bukit Merah Orang Utan Island
 Tag 11 – Penang, Malaysia – 19:30 Uhr alle Mann an Bord – 20:00 Uhr Ablegen Heute hatten wir zwar keinen Tender an Land – anders als die Gäste der Queen Mary 2, deren Schiff beim Frühstück unsere Aussicht verschönert hat – ein wenig Boot gefahren sind wir dennoch. Zum Orang Utan Zentrum, einer Insel,…
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Chinese New Year in Saigon
Mein Schiff Southeast Asia cruise: Day 8 – Phu My/ Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam Today we have decided for the transfer to HCMC offered by the ship, since we have found on the one hand comparable prices in the net for cab transfers, on the other hand again a little expenditure would have…
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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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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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Motorbiking heaven on the High Alpine Road – Timmelsjoch Hochalpenstraße mit dem Motorrad
2.509 m.a.s.l. – 2.509 m ü.M. [comments in Italic by Daniel, as always] – We rode from Passeier valley to the top, all the way up the Italian winding pass road. The Austrians collect tolls, so we turned around and went down again the way we came. That was planned as we did the Timmelsjoch…
