Me enamoré…de Cuba

During Corona times, I have done some tidying up and fell on an old Cuba calendar from 2003 and my guidebooks standing on the bookshelf have been edited in 2009. So I can… Continue reading →

Girls’ weekend in Rome in November, again…

…but it does not happen often enough, is what we say each time we say goodbye to each other after a few intensive days. This time our destination was Rome. In November! Still… Continue reading →

From Lisbon to Porto…and discovering surfing

Just want to quickly catch up and share some inputs and pictures on the last “real real trip” as I just did not get to it before. I am a spoilt kid, as… Continue reading →

Costa Rica – At your age…

“…you should stop doing silly things like this” my dear husband told me, whilst we were riding our bikes on a pitch-dark road from Puerto Viejo to Playa Chiquita. Not being totally unconscious, I… Continue reading →

How to get from Tortuguero to Puerto Viejo

There was not much planning in advance for the Costa Rica trip (in my first idea we were heading somewhere different 🙂 ) but I still wanted to have a rough idea of the… Continue reading →

From San José to Tortuguero

Wondering if it is worth it to go to Tortuguero even outside the turtle season? I would definitely say yes. Obviously you miss the turtles but you also miss the hassle of the… Continue reading →

San José deserves better

Most of overseas flights heading to Costa Rica 🇨🇷 land in San José (SJO).   And whenever you look up some information on the city, you find almost only bad news. You almost… Continue reading →

Goodbye Geneva Summer 2016

Two weeks ago we saw the first snow flakes in Geneva and the Salève (the Geneva house mountain) and the Jura are already covered in a powdery white, already tempting the ski and snowboard fans.… Continue reading →

Riederalp – a total bliss

If you ask me what my element is, I would answer without hesitation “water”. I also love cities and I love crowded places where people share positive feelings like in a concert. But I… Continue reading →

Przepraszam nie rozumiem

Przepraszam nie rozumiem! Sorry, I don’t understand!!! That was the most useful sentence apart from cześć (hello) and dzień dobry (good morning/afternoon) during my week in Warsaw (read about the legend of the name on Sylvia’s blog).… Continue reading →