Suggested Tour Routes to see the best destinations in Portugal Portugal is quite compact and easy to travel around. However, most widely sold tour offerings combine it with Spain, and a few even add Morocco. This means you get to see Fatima, Lisbon and not much else. But there are some "purely … [Read more...]
Portuguese Cuisine – What to eat on your holiday
Fishetarians will eat well in Portugal! Cuisine in Portugal varies by region, but being a seafaring nation with a well-developed fishing industry, fish and seafood dominate most menus. Fishetarians like Tony and I will eat well here. Portugal has been fishing and trading cod since the 15th … [Read more...]
Designer Outlet Shopping in Germany
Designer Outlet Shopping in Germany is Expanding! Designer Outlet shopping may have been slow in arriving in Germany, but it has arrived! Whilst the Italians, French and English are very familiar with outlet shopping and visitors to these countries fanatically seek out the designer outlets, the … [Read more...]
Shopping in Munich – Germany
Shopping in Munich: You can buy a lot more than beer and sausages in Munich! Yes, there's certainly more to buy in Munich than just giant tumblers of amber ale and souvenir mugs! Within the city centre alone, there's a wide selection of shops, boutiques and department stores to cater to … [Read more...]
Shopping in Frankfurt – Germany
Where to shop in Frankfurt depends very much on what you're after. In this city of skyscrapers, the shopping offer is as varied as its cityscape. From the exclusive designer boutiques of Goethestrasse to the department stores on the Zeil or the upmarket shops on Schillerstrasse selling porcelain and … [Read more...]
Shopping in Berlin
East or West, Berlin Shopping is best! Shopping is a favourite pastime for Berliners. You don't have to travel too far to shop and on just the two main shopping streets of Kurfürstendamm and Friedrichstrasse, there are over a dozen large shopping malls. Kurfürstendamm Shops Kurfürstendamm … [Read more...]
Is there more to German cuisine than sauerkraut, bratwurst and schnitzel?
Regensburg Bratwurst sausages may be renowned German fare, but what else is there? German cuisine and French cuisine may be neighbours geographically, but they're a long way apart in character. Whilst Germany's Oktoberfest and beer festivals are famous around the world, its food unfortunately … [Read more...]
Swiss Cheese Fondue
How Swiss Cheese Fondue was invented and how to make it: When the temperature is freezing and the chill in the air is converting into goosebumps on your skin, there's nothing like some rich comfort food to ward off the cold. The Swiss cheese fondue comes to mind. Origin of the Swiss Cheese … [Read more...]
Swiss Cheese – more than Gruyère, but…
When I read that there are more than 400 varieties of Swiss cheese, I was astounded. Most non-Swiss people would only know of a handful, the most popular ones being Emmenthal and Gruyère. Still, Gruyère is undoubtedly the big cheese of the Swiss dairy industry, so when we visited the … [Read more...]
The Giger Museum – An Alien Encounter in Gruyères
In the Land of the Gruyère Cheese, The Giger Museum Seems an Oddity: Fans of the "Alien" movies will be pleased to know that the Museum H R Giger is in Gruyères. This Giger Museum is home to the permanent collection of the works of H.R. Giger, the award winning Swiss designer of Ridley … [Read more...]