Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Cathédrale Notre-Dame The Monument of Remembrance Public transport is free in Luxembourg 😁 Musée national d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg Vielle ville Neumünster Abbey i Chemin de la Corniche  Bock Casemates The Passerelle,  Dent Creuse Saint Michael's Church Grand Duchess Charlotte Bridge Stierchen Bridge Palais Grand-Ducal statue of former Grand Duke William II @Place Guillaume II ...

Old town, Tallinn : a photolog

If you have time to visit  just the Old town in Tallinn, that is enough Tallinn to take in. We thought, it is one of the most beautiful old towns in Europe. There are cafes and restaurants, courtyards  of chocolatiers and  artisans , souvenir shops, cobble stone roads, museums, Tallin's part of old defence system:...

Malmö, Sweden

Malmö was a stop over in our Copenhagen trip. We got same SJ train fare from Kiruna to Stockholm and Kiruna to Malmö, so decided to take the later. It was Christmas eve and we reached pretty late. It was already dark and we walked to our hotel to keep luggage. Later we came out...

Göteborg, Sweden..

Our 2018 Christmas trip was to visit Copenhagen and then I was not able to make my mind whether to take a Cruise to Tallinn from Stockholm or to go to Oslo! In this confusion, I took a bus to Göteborg to take a day to think. We took a Flixbus from Copenhagen train station....

Copenhagen .. Quick tips for a short trip

There are  good hotels and hostels near Central train station. If you are backpacking and travelling by bus like Flix bus, those bus also stop close to the Central station. This area also has many cheap food joints. Two major tourist attraction Tivoli and Tycho Brahe planetarium are very close the central station. We stayed...

Christiansborg Palace & Rosenborg Castle, Denmark.

Whenever you think of European capital cities, the visual of palaces and castles come into mind, the baroque, neo-baroque and neo-classicism architectures to blow your mind away! Copenhagen is no exception, it houses more than 5 palaces, some used as Government buildings, some are the residence of the royals.. We were able to visit two...

National Gallery of Denmark..

  The SMK is the national gallery of Denmark and the largest art museum in the country. The museum is located in central Copenhagen, near to the Rosenberg palace and Museum of Natural History. While my husband went to explore Niels Bohr Institute, I chose to witness the Danish  & Nordic arts of the last few...

Nyhavn, Copenhagen : Denmark

We visited Nyhavn, the  17th-century waterfront, canal and entertainment district in Copenhagen, Denmark on the Christmas day. It is the home for brightly coloured 17th and early 18th century townhouses and bars, cafes and restaurants. The canal harbours many historical wooden ships. It is most probably the most visited neighbourhood in Copenhagen. It was too cold...

Kiruna: this time of the year..

This year, winter is not cold in Kiruna! Here in December usually temperatures should be below -10, but not this year. The snow is thin, and temperature is toggling around -5. The global warming does have its effects. Still, the sky is beautiful, while sun sets and rises .. days are short usually few hours....

Strasbourg Cathedral & Old town, France

Strasbourg is a beautiful  city in the bank of Rhine river close to the French German border. As my husband had a lecture in Europlanet week in International space university in Strasbourg, we landed up there for a week. Though I took a break and went to Stuttgart in between, but that is another story....