Albania doesn’t make the list of the most popular travel destinations. But we had no problems finding enough to do for two weeks!
Category: Europe
From Locarno to the Cardada Cimetta
Recently I was traveling across Switzerland and and made a little detour to Locarno. In April 2019 an unexpected cold front brought half a meter of fresh to the mountains, and so everything turned into a bit of a snow hike…;)
Inside the Odessa Catacombs
The biggest attraction in the ukrainian city of Odessa is not located on the surface, but below the ground. Welcome to the largest catacomb network in the world!
At the Black Sea in Odessa
Towards the end of our trip through the Ukraine we just wanted to relax, maybe hang around a beach for two or three days and do nothing. What a lucky coincidence that we had just arrived in Odessa 🙂
The Museum of Strategic Rocket Forces in Pobuzke
If you ever wanted to start a Total Nuclear War from an actual launch console 30 meters below ground – in this museum you can 😉
The Stalin Tunnels
During WWII Stalin wanted to keep the supply lines for the Kiev fortress alive at all cost, using two tunnels under the river Dnjepr. Today the ruins of this failed, highly secret project are sinking into the swamps near the city.
The streets of Lviv
Actually we never wanted to go to Lviv. Nevertheless, this was were we fell out of a plane right on the first day of our tour across the Ukraine. And who was to blame? The UEFA!
The Shadows Of Chernobyl
On April 26, 1986 reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and contaminated half of Europe. A visit to the still highly contaminanted Exclusion Zone around the former power plant
To the Osterfelderkopf via the Bernadeinsteig
Today I’m writing about the third and last hiking suggestion from our vacation in Bavaria. We take the Bernadein path to the mountain station of the Alpspitzbahn and the AlpspiX viewing platform! 🙂