Hello again

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. After a long break for summer holidays I´m back and have many stories about adventures and trips from Spain and another exotic country for you. So watch out!

My first part will be about Spain. I went for a journey across Andalusia which is the most populous and the second largest autonomous  community in the country. Unfortunately, I didn't visit all of those beautiful cities but the ones I saw, impressed me a lot.
The first stop was Malaga and Torremolinos. It wasn't my first time there but I saw many places I had never heard of before.

I was there at the end of July so believe me, it was very hot there but Malaga and Torremolinos are directly at the sea so there was always a cooling fresh wind.

Stay tuned to get to know more about my spanish trip!

Valencia II

Hey everybody,

As I promised, today I will tell you more about my trip to the beautiful city Valencia. After the first day with the new district Ciudad de les arts and the awesome beach, I had the pleasure to discover the old town and city center of Valencia. Before I started my tour, I checked what I wanted to see. That's why I marked every highlight on Google Maps and linked them to an all day tour. Do you also plan your trip like that? I started with the beautiful Mercado de Colon- a Market hall with various cafes and shops. A must do in Valencia is to drink the famous local “Horxata”- very tasty refreshing drink made of nuts, something like a milkshake. Also, you have to order “Fartons”. That is something like thin and long biscuits with sugar on it. This “menu” is typical for Valencia and a great snack or even breakfast. After that, I went on to the central station. A huge old train station looking a little bit like a cathedral. Next to the central station there is the City hall land the Post building. Two very impressive old Spanish buildings with great architecture. Going on to the center there is the Placa de la Reina with the cathedral and the Basilica de la Mare de Deu dels Desemparats. Believe me, both are unreliable beautiful. In front of the Cathedral, there are cafes and bars so we made a break and had a lunch. When you go towards the park that is around the city center, you can see the old city towers. When you climb them up you have an amazing view around the city. So you supposed to go there but it is obviously up to you. Overall, I really recommend Valencia and definitely will go back there. I never thought that Valencia offer that much and I am positively shocked. If you don't know when to go there, May is perfect option! However, there is also a celebration of Las Fallas- the term refers to monuments (those Falles) burnt during the celebration. Usually, it takes place in March so if you don't know where to go next year and you have days off, I hope now you know! :)

Thank you for visiting and reading my blog and hopefully you will return to read more about my next trips around Europe and the world.

See you soon!

Valencia

Hello everyone,

Welcome back to my blog and thank you for sharing my travel stories with me.

Today I will tell you about my trip to Valencia. As you might know, I study Spanish Language, I am totally in love with Spain and try to visit every single part of this country. This year, first I decided to go to Valencia. I have never been there but I heard a lot about that place and I tried to read as much as I could before visiting it. And to be honest- everything was even better than I thought. 

Firstly, in my opinion Valencia have 3 different parts: the “new district”, the old town and the relax zone with the beach. So the plan was to visit every part of Valencia on a different day. My hotel was nearly to the new district with the famous futuristic buildings called Ciudad de les Arts. It´s a complete new district including a big park which goes around the old town from the bioparc to the harbor, a lot of interesting buildings with great architecture and Oceanographic. We went through the park to visit the ciudad de les arts and the science museum. It is an interactive museum with a lot of great stuff to see and of course new experiences. I really learned there a lot to various topics such as Physics or History for example. The next goal we visited was the Oceanographic. An aquapark with many species of animals. Sharks, penguins, crocodiles, flamingos and even dolphins. We could also take part in a dolphins show. It was fun to see all those animals and the Aquapark is definitely worth to visit (especially if you travel with children). After that we had still time to go to the beach. It is located a little bit outside the center so we drove there by bus. The beach was amazing and the weather was wonderful! Magnificent and huge sandy beach is the best place to relax. After all the action at the first part of the day, it was good to chill there and enjoy that weather (because then in Poland it was cloudy and rainy).

Have a look at those beautiful pictures!

Next part of Brussels

Hello again,

Today I will tell you the next part of my trip to Brussels.

In the first part, I showed you the European district. Today I want to show you the old town and all the sightseeing highlight of Brussels.

We started with the Mini-Europe, which is situated in the old expo area, at the foot of the Atomium. It is a park where mini cities of all European countries are shown. You can discover almost all great sightseeing’s of Europe in an hour. Definitely worth it. Unfortunatelly, Poland wasn't shown favorably. Next to the expo area and Mini-Europe is the famous Atomium. It is a museum located on the Heysel Plateau. The top sphere includes a restaurant with panormaic view of Brussels. A nice place to take pictures in front of it and a typical sign of Brussels. This part of Brussels is located a little bit outside the city centre. After taking pictures in front of the Atomium we went to the center.  The famous “Grand Place” with the Cityhall and the Old town around is really nice. Very old and classic buildings and architecture and of course a lot of Belgian waffles and chocolates. You have to taste them! After a little break for those delicious Belgian snacks, we went through the little streets of the Old town to the “Palais”. On the way out of the old town you have a nice view above the whole city while you are walking the steps to the palais. Next to the palais is the Brussels City Park. A nice place to chill after an excited day of exploring Brussels. 

Summarized I was positive surprised. I didn´t expect that Brussels had so much to offer. The old town, the European district and the old expo area are three totally different but very interesting and nice places in Brussels. Every European (or not only) should go there and see all of them. 

I hope you enjoyed it and I cannot wait to tell you the next story of my travels across the world!

Brussels

Hi!

After long weeks through my journey across Sri Lanka, I will return to the stories from the European countries. To be precise- today I will share with you my story and experience from Brussels. Why I decided to raise this topic? Because of  parlamentary election of course!

It was my first time in Brussels and I will tell you everything in two blog posts. The first one will handle more about the European Union and the European district in Brussels. It is situated a little bit outside the center. Unfortunately, I was there on Friday midday and the Parliament was closed but weekdays you can visit it and have a look how the European Union is working. Generally, this district is completely different to the city center of Brussels because it is very modern, the buildings are innovative. It was very interesting to see it live and not only in television. :)

I can totally admit that Brussels is an obligatory point to see if you are european! I want to go there once again to visit all the buildings of European Parliament. You should also go there once! 

By the way, what do you think about elections? ;)

See you next time when I tell you about other attractions in Brussels. 

Tsunami

Hello everyone,

For the last time I want to tell you another story about Sri Lanka and my trip there. This time the topic will be the tsunami from the year 2004. On our adventure through Sri lanka we went to the Yala National Park. The park is situated on the south east cost so it is directly at the ocean. In the morning on 26th of December 2004 there was an earthquake in the ocean near Indonesia but unfortunately this earthquake produced a huge wave which went through the ocean and hit every country and coast around. What really impressed us, was the history our guide told us: on the day of tsunami people who visited the park saw that all animals went away from the coast in direction to the inner country. It was really suspicious because animals that always hunt each other, went together nearly side by side away. People at that time didn't know what was going on or didn't realise what it meant. But as we know today, the animals back then felt that something horrible was happening and tried to escape. Unfortunately, the tsunami hit Sri Lanka and especially the Yala Park very bad and people who visited the park that day died and a lot of people around the Sri Lanka also. There are a lot of stories from that day and of course a lot of them are sad but there where also a few lucky stories. But the history of the animals from the Yala Park impressed me the most.

Galle

Hello guys, My today's topic is still related to my adventures in Sri Lanka. This time I will take you to Galle- an old city at the south of Sri Lanka. Galle was founded by the Portuguese people and later, was under Dutch colony. And this gives Galle its special look: colonial architecture combined with native traditions. You can fall in love looking at its old small city centre, just like old Dutch towns in Netherlands. Something completely different than other cities we saw before. What is more, Galle is situated directly at the ocean so from the restaurants and cafes at the city, you have an amazing view over the ocean. Believe me or not, it is beautiful and very romantic! Unfortunately at the day we were in Galle it was unbelievable hot (about 38 degrees) and it was quite exhausting to tour around the city but it was really worth it and it is definitely necessary place to see when you are in Sri Lanka.
Near to Galle, you can also see stilt fishing, which is the most famous and interesting traditional fishing method of Sri Lanka. The fishermen are sitting on the bamboo pales and they pretend to fish. Why I say pretend? Because currently, there are few of them who do it professionally. More of them live with tips from tourists. Have a look at this beautiful pictures I made in Galle. See you next time with another story of my traveling around Sri Lanka. Greetings!