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The Fairy Tale Palace of Sintra
The small town of Sintra north of Lisbon is the home of two royal palaces. The contrast between those two buildings could hardly be bigger. The National Palace near the town centre was built 1000 years ago for the Moorish rulers of the Taifa Kingdom of Lisbon (after the Cordoba Caliphate had broken up into…
Downtown Lisbon: Monuments and Wind-Swept Melancholy
Uptown and downtown Lisbon are two different worlds, and your strategy of experiencing the two unequal halves of the Portuguese capital should reflect this. For your uptown walk on the slopes of the city we suggested last week, you should pick a starting point and an end point on opposite ends of the old town…
The Charms of Uptown Lisbon
One of the rules of “adventurous” travel is that you should not read too much in advance about a place you are going to visit, because otherwise, your trip is in danger of becoming a mere ticking-off-exercise of seeing things “in the flesh” that you have already studied in great detail on the Internet. Give…
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Jerusalem – Blazing Thunderstorm of Noises and Colours
Gathering tourism experiences has been the Easy Hikers’ primary occupation for these past 10 or 15 years, so you may trust me when I say that popular destinations generally have more in common than we would ideally wish them to. Seaside walks and beach promenades resemble each other to the point where they seem virtually…
Fall in Love With Modern Architecture in Tel Aviv
Modern architecture is difficult to love. It is not so much the concept that is the problem here: all of us can easily agree that its principles are fine and noble – simplicity (less is more), an appearance of elegant restraint (ornament is crime), transparency of structure (form follows function). But while this theory has…
Birds, Kidnappers And Hiking In New Zealand
Guest Post: Hiking in New Zealand Birds, kidnappers and hiking. Now, what do these three have in common? Let Jim McIntosh tell you all about it. Hiking in New Zealand New Zealand hosts the world’s largest mainland based gannet colony at Cape Kidnappers in Hawke’s Bay. The Australasian Gannets have been nesting at this site…