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Everyone knows that I love travelling. Even my three-year-old niece calls me Dora the Explorer, the big one, while watching little Dora on TV. Yes, I do look like her a little bit.

I'm going to be spending a year in Europe, from July 2009 till July 2010, travelling from Toronto, Canada to Novi Sad, Serbia then London, Greece, Switzerland ... I'll be posting pictures and maps, writing about cities, architecture, culture, and food. There'll be lots of pictures of food, especially cakes, chocolates and similar sweets.

You're welcome to write comments, questions, and I'll try to reply asap, unless I'm travelling, of course.

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By Isidora
November 12th 2009

Zurich Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Zürich

Zurich lake

We arrived in Zurich the first week of October. And as it often happens with a place where you live, you forget to take pictures, thinking that there's time, you'll be here for a few months ... Well, after a month of living here, I finally took some pictures, but I didn't choose the best day for taking photos, since the weather was a bit gloomy. I'll post these pictures now, but I promise I'll add more, since there's so much more to see ... Otherwise, Zurich is a lovely city, with lots of water everywhere, fountains, rivers, and the beautiful [View Full Entry]

By Isidora
October 24th 2009

Bratislava Europe » Slovakia » Bratislava Region » Bratislava » Old Town

Bratislava-Old Town

Instead of stopping in Vienna again, we decided to go to Bratislava and see the capital of Slovakia, which is just 60km north of Vienna. Once again, we didn't have much time, but we did take a few pictures and walked around the Old Town. Even though it's quite close to Austria and Hungary, you can see and feel the difference in architecture, culture, food, and people. The Old Town is beautiful, full of old buildings and narrow streets on a hill, on top of which is a big castle overlooking the Danube river. We crossed Danube many times on our [View Full Entry]

By Isidora
October 23rd 2009

Munich Europe » Germany » Bavaria » Munich

Rathaus Glockenspiel

Once again, we drove to Novi Sad from Zurich to pick up some stuff we left there, including skis, and on our way there as well as back, we stopped in Munich. We didn't have much time to explore the city, so we decided to just stroll around and enjoy some bratwurst and white beer (Aleks, not me, I prefer Helles, typical local lager). Unlike Milan, in Munich we had amazing breakfast and dinner right in front of the Glockenspiel Rathaus on Marienplatz, which is always packed with tourists. We did some shopping too, since Zurich is quite expensive, and it [View Full Entry]

By Isidora
October 19th 2009

Zurich-Milan-Zurich Europe » Italy » Lombardy » Milan

North of San Gotthard tunnel

One weekend, we decided to go to Milan, which I visited some ten years ago, and ever since then I always wanted to go back. What we learned the hard way, is that we are not the only ones who had this idea, and also, if you plan to go through the third longest tunnel in the world (San Gotthardo, 16 km long!) on a Saturday, you better be prepared for a very long queue. So, for the trip that was supposed to be 3-4 hours (300km), it took us 6-7 hours! We decided to return on Monday, not Sunday, which [View Full Entry]

By Isidora
September 30th 2009

Salzburg - on the way to Zurich Europe » Austria » Salzburg State » Salzburg

Mozart

The next stop was Salzburg. Unfortunately, we didn't plan our time very well, or maybe we were enjoying Vienna a bit longer than we should have, but we arrived in Salzburg at 9pm and only had time to visit the old town, the place where Mozart was born. Also, we had a nice dinner in a really old restaurant St. Peter Stiftskeller, one of the oldest in Europe (some say the oldest - opened in 803 a.d.), mostly because I wanted to try the famous Salzburg nockerl. Amazing desert, so huge that we couldn't finish half of it. But it was [View Full Entry]

By Isidora
September 29th 2009

Vienna - on the way to Zurich Europe » Austria » Vienna State » Vienna

Vienna schnitzel
at a famous restaurant Figlmueller

One of the things we decided early on is to have and drive a car throughout Europe and see as many interesting places as we can. After spending some wonderful time with our families in Novi Sad, we continued our journey to Zurich. Since Novi Sad - Zurich is approximately 1300 km (800 miles), we split the trip in three days, with two stops in Austria: first one in Vienna and the second one in Salzburg. Vienna is an amazing city! The architecture, culture, history, food, everything is well worth exploring and enjoying, if you have time. Since we only spent [View Full Entry]

By Isidora
August 5th 2009

Greece - part 2 - Skiathos Europe » Greece » Thessaly » Skiathos

Skiathos town

And after the northern Greece, we continued south, towards Volos, where we took a ferry boat, and after two hours of a very nice and relaxing boat ride, we reached Skiathos. At first we thought we'll find the accommodation easily, after all, everyone was talking about a slow season, economic problems, and similar, so we didn't make any reservations. Big mistake! It was almost the beginning of August, and it seemed like everyone was on this island: lots of tourists from Britain, France, and even lots of Greek families, and especially young people, since, what we learned later, there's a lot [View Full Entry]

By Isidora
August 2nd 2009

Greece - part 1 Polychrono Europe » Greece » Central Macedonia » Thessaloniki

Polichrono - swimming

Yet again, Greece never disappoints! On July 17, Aleks and I drove from Novi Sad (NS), going south through Serbia, stopping in Leskovac for some famous south-Serbian bbq and other meat delicacies, continuing through the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, FYROM, or as we refer to it, just short Macedonia, (*one of the former Yugoslav republics, now a separate country, not yet in the EU, mostly due to their name, which is also the name of a northern part of Greece (where Alexander the Great came from), which the Greek do not like at all, and henceforth, make it hard for [View Full Entry]

By Isidora
July 15th 2009

London - 4 days in July Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London

Photo 1
Queen V and me

Being back in London after 12 years was quite a different experience. Not just because I could actually afford to stay in a decent hotel rather than renting a room in the 4th zone, and working as a nanny (back in 1997), but also because this beautiful, exciting city has changed a lot, just like me (no, not just age-wise). And since I'm packing to leave for my next trip (in two days), I'll just post more photos and less text this time. [View Full Entry]

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