Vilnius, Lithuania .. first look !

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A gloomy day in la petite France.. Strasbourg..

  Me and my mom visited La petite France in Strasbourg in a rainy day, it is now a cute little corner in the old town and one of Strasbourg's main tourist attractions. It is  the  historic quarter of the city  located at the western end of the Grande Île. At Petite France, the River Ill...

Attitude ;)

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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...

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....

M’O ;) Musée d’Orsay, Paris ..

In my 5th visit to Paris, I was determined to see Musee d'Orsay or  M'O called by artists and visitors. On the left bank of the Seine, the museum was installed in the former Orsay railway station, Gare d'Orsay. Built in 1900 to designs by Victor Laloux, Lucien Magne and Émile Bénard. It served as a...

Gangaramaya Temple, Colombo..

  Gangaramya temple is the most visited religious destination in Colombo . Situated not far from the placid waters of Beira Lake , it has a Vihara (temple), the Cetiya (Pagada) the Bodhitree, the Vihara Mandiraya, the Seema malaka (assembly hall for monks) and the Relic Chamber. In addition, a museum, a library, a residential...