Almost all travel guides agree that Brugge (or Bruges) is the most beautiful city in Belgium. I think that’s because all the nice old buildings are conveniently located in one small area – the old city center. However, my first impression of Gent was much better. Yes, the old churches and castles are located in [...]
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Moved to Holland
May 2nd, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Vacation | No Comments »
The last 3.5 months I had almost no time to write anything. Was too busy with work-related problems. It looks like they’re coming to an end as well as my life in Belgium. After 2.5 years we’re moving back to The Netherlands. For 1.5 weeks we’ve endured a long marathon: packing all the stuff in [...]
Security in airports is returning to normal
October 3rd, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Vacation | No Comments »
It was a great time before 9/11 and the whole “War against terror” thing. We all believed traveling will be easier and easier, Intra-European flights were almost the same as their Intra-American analogs – an expensive bus ride. Easy to check in, easy to fly. Of course everything changed after we realized we live in [...]
North See cycling road – Haarlem-Den Haag
Just posted an article on the site of Dmitry “Goblin” Puchkov with some pictures and story about 60-km cycling trip along the North Sea. Link to the article (in russian) Google map shows >37.000 hits in just 2 days, wow! Although a number of comments was not that huge. I should add more controversial topics [...]
Auggen, Germany
Auggen is a small village on the German bank of Rein. It’s a part of famous white wine region. This region is divided by the Rein river to French and German parts. Before the second world war it was a part of Germany, but after Germany’s defeat western part become France. This part is world-famous [...]
Photos from Zurich
During our long weekend in Baden we’ve come to our friend in Basel. On Saturday we wanted to have a walk in a nice city for the whole day. Unfortunately Basel is not the best choice – the old part is to small, so we went to Zurich. Actually Bern was our first choice, because the weather [...]
Amsterdam Red Light District augustus 2009
August 5th, 2009 by Serguei Alleko in Vacation | No Comments »
Last weekend we were visiting Amsterdam with our friend. The last time I’ve visited in the Red Light District may be 3-4 years ago. There are definitely some changes. The number of windows with girls is greatly reduced. There is almost no windows left on the main canal streets, only on a small ones. Dutch [...]
Long weekend near Basel
I just came back from the long weekend (4 days) near Basel. Just north of Basel lays Baden – the most known region for german white wine And this is Basel itself (they do understand what BIG cappuchino means) Soon more photo’s and not from telephone Share on Facebook
