According to legend the Grimaldi Family, the royal family of Monaco, came into power when Francoise Grimaldi in the year 1297 managed to sneak into the Monaco Castle dressed as a monk.
Monaco and Nice June 22nd 2014 If you can't stand bad jokes you might want to skip the text in this blog entry and limit yourself to just looking at the photos
Here comes the first joke, if you can even call it a joke: Nice is nice.
That one is so obvious that it probably is featured on two thirds of all the blog entries about the city Nice. We thought that we put it right at the top and thus get it over wit ... read more
Europe » Monaco Economic development was spurred in the late 19th century with a railroad linkup to France and the opening of a casino. Since then, the principality's mild climate, splendid scenery, and gambling facilities have made Monaco world famous as a tourist ... ... read more
We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden.
We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them.
Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are
Angel Falls in Ven... full info