Rock Climbing Experience

Rock climbing is an experience that everyone should try at least once. As an avid rock climber, my opinion on this subject may be biased, but the benefits that I have received from partaking in such an activity have all been positive.

On a Mission

While backpacking across Europe in 2009, I was able to explore many of the hotels that the various countries offered. While I am not one that typically breaks the bank to stay at a fine luxury hotel, I had a very special occasion in the next few months that required me to locate a very special location.

The Scottish Seabird Centre of Edinburgh

The coast of Scotland is a haven for seabirds. If you are staying at one of the many Princes Street hotels Edinburgh has to offer, you will see only seagulls gliding on the wind above and perched on statues. However, just a short distance away is the seaside and offshore are the Isle of May, Craigleith, and the famous Bass Rock. Here gannets, puffins, shags, and cormorants gather to create what David Attenborough has called one of the “Twelve Wildlife Wonders of the World.”

Dusseldorf’s Top 3 Pubs

Located in the west of Germany, Dusseldorf is famous for its important role in European business and commerce. Over a million people visit the city each year to stay in a Dusseldorf trade fair hotel, and here they attend some of the largest trade fairs held anywhere in the world.

Cheese and Liverpool: A recipe for a good time

Cheese is the great equalizer. It can take on many forms, and many qualities, but cheese is in its own a right glorious and tantalizing dairy product that has been produced since the beginning of human history. The word ‘cheese’ as we know it in English is related to the Latin root ‘caseus’ which is now very similar to the word ‘casein’, a vital part of the cheese creation process. Fromageries are the ideal location for getting better acquainted with the world of cheese.

The Karabakh Horse: Pride for Baku and Azerbaijan

Horses have been instrumental in easing the burden of humans and in many ways aiding the development and settlement of many parts of the world. Horses are good companions, have unique personalities, are physically powerful, and often quite beautiful. In Azerbaijan, the national animal is a breed of horse that is a point of national pride.

What on Earth is the Blue Banana?

With a provocative name like that, this could be just about anything, but the Blue Banana is another name for the backbone of Europe, the European Megalopolis, the most populous region of Europe by far. Shaped like a banana, it bends from Liverpool and Cardiff in the UK at one end to the densest regions of Northern Italy and the South of France like Milan, Venice, Monaco and Nice.