My Story of Wrocław, Poland

My road trip around Poland continues with Wrocław, a city located in the south-west of Poland, on the river Oder. For those of you having trouble pronouncing its name, it’s something like “vrotzlav” (hope that’s correct 😀 ).  Although this is one of the biggest cities in Poland, I only first heard about it roughly

My Story of Warsaw, Poland

After visiting Krakow, my next stop was Warsaw, the capital and largest city of Poland. We got there in the afternoon, so we had about a day and a half to spend here. Our accommodation was not very close to the city centre but we could easily reach it by public transport, which I really

My Story of Krakow, Poland

I spent the first two weeks of August 2022 on a road trip through parts of Poland and Austria. Left Bucharest, Romania, went through Oradea, Romania with the first destination being Krakow, Poland. The road trip itself was an interesting experience as it was done with a fully electric car and the time spent in

A Trip Around Puglia part 4

My Story of Polignano a Mare After a full and rather tiring trip to Matera, we decided Sunday is the day of rest, so we only took a smaller trip from Bari to Polignano a Mare. It’s a short train ride of about 20 minutes and costs about 5 euros round-trip.  But why Polignano a

A Trip Around Puglia part 3

My Story of Matera, Italy I’ve told you about Bari and Alberobello and it is now time for another Pugliese gemstone: Matera.  It appears that this area of Italy has a thing for quirky dwellings, as while Alberobello is the town of trulli, Matera is a cave town. Literally. A large portion of this town has

A Trip Around Puglia part 2

My Story of Alberobello I wanted to squeeze all the gemstones of Puglia in this article: Alberobello, Matera, and Polignano a Mare, but thought better of it, so you’ll get some really short reads with these next stories. First stop: Alberobello On the second day of the trip – see part 1 here, we went

A Trip Around Puglia part 1

My Story of Bari, Italy Long time – no travel, but I’m back to my backpack and the first journey was to the Puglia (Apulia) region in Italy. More specifically, Bari, Matera, Alberobello and Polignano a Mare.  Puglia is the “heel” of Italy’s “boot”, with Bari, the largest city in the region, as a sort

My Story of Naples, Italy

Two years ago, just before the pandemic took over Europe, I was on my last “unmasked” trip. The destination: Naples, Italy, which I will refer to as “Napoli” (it’s the Italian name, and it comes easier to me).  I had four days to spend here and tried to make the best of it. The accommodation

12 Books I Read in 2021

Photo by Ugur Akdemir on Unsplash or How I traveled Fictionally Last Year I wrote a similar article about the books I read in 2020, which you can read here. You’ll find I was a much more “productive” reader back then, with 19 books read, as opposed to only 12 this past year. For some reason, despite the

My Story of Malta

Throwback to my 2019 holidays This year, I’m spending the holidays at home, in peace and quiet, which I do enjoy, but I also miss travelling. In 2019, I got to spend the holidays in Malta. We arrived on Christmas Day and left on New Year’s Day 2020. It was a full week of exploring