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Home to Scandinavia’s tallest building and third largest city in Sweden, Malmö is increasingly emerging as a must visit multicultural hub. With one-third of the Malmö population from various other countries, the city is one of the most cosmopolitan in Sweden. This has contributed to a rich cultural life and many exotic and fine food opportunities. With Copenhagen a simple hours coach ride away, the city has increasingly benefitted from its now famous Øresund bridge which span

Part one of this adventure can be found here. Now you might imagine a night in the desert to be filled with all sort of creepy insects but in matter of fact we hardly came across any wildlife. The most we probably saw was a couple of cats, one called “Shakira”, and a dog that mostly kept himself to himself. I did however wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of something moving around on what sounded like the top of our tent, so somehow managing to put my mind at ea

Capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , Luxembourg City lies in the very heart of Western Europe. Ranked in the top 20 of the Mercer Quality of Living index primarily for its personal safety record and quality of life, Luxembourg offers the perfect short city naturalistic escape. The city centre occupies a picturesque site on a salient, perched high on precipitous cliffs that drop into the narrow valleys of the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers, whose confluence is in City. Its

One of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, Vancouver is a hub of thriving activities from a wide range of cultures. Consistently being named as one of the top five worldwide cities for liveability and quality of life (WORLD’S MOST LIVEABLE CITIES), Vancouver often plays host to major events such as the winter olympics (2010), FIFA Women’s World Cup (2015) as well as the annual TED conference making Vancouver its indefinite home after spending 30 y

Till next time Wrocław If you’ve been following my posts over the past week you would have now already guessed that I’m obsessed with a good cup of coffee. So you can imagine to my delight that our morning was to be started with me and Filip taking his nan and sister to our favourite coffee spot, Etno Café. With us all bundled up protected from the cold, we snaked our way through the city centre on one of the many blue trams that often line the streets. Then in the presence o

Mid-morning I woke up to be spoiled by yet another delightful breakfast prepared by Filip. Fresh fruit, seeds and jam combined on top of Kasza Manna – a form of milled wheat with a soft and sticky texture. After breakfast we headed towards ‘Nadodrze’ – adistrict of Wroclaw on its northern edge. Escaping the majority of major destruction during the war its architectural character largely remains untouched. Its cobbled streets lined with nineteenth and twentieth-century buildi

An early rise (at least for us) saw us leave the apartment and head for the Jewish Quarter of Krakow, ‘Kazimierz’. Only a short walk from the Main Square, Kazimierz was a place of coexistence and interpenetration of ethnic Polish and Jewish cultures for many centuries, its north-eastern part of the district was historically Jewish, whose inhabitants were forcibly relocated in 1941 by the German occupying forces into the Krakow ghetto. The Kraków Ghetto was one of five major,

Waking up late, we decided to head for the Museum of Anthropology situated on the campus of UBC. Renowned for its displays of world arts and cultures as well as in depth history on works by First Nations within the Pacific Northwest. It certainly offered a detailed view on how the First Nations lived amongst the ever emerging world around them, a world that would come to force them from their homes, causing them to, in some cases, adapt to the modern era. One of the many Tote

An early start to the day saw us head into downtown for 9am to catch the free shuttle bus over to North Vancouver’s Capilano Suspension Bridge. On our way the bus drove through Downtown Vancouver giving us another perspective of this ever growing city, while also passing through Stanley park which, as our driver states “has lots of trees”. In fact Stanley Park is home to 1,001-acres of rainforest which also connects Vancouver with North Vancouver via the Lions Gate bridge, a

A perk of going on holiday and not staying in a hotel is the food. You can eat what you want, when you want. Plus you don’t have to stand in that annoying breakfast buffet queue first thing in the morning and stand behind the lady who seems to be toasting a thousand pieces of bread in the slow moving toaster that will ether lightly toast or burn to a stone the slice of bread you put into it, there’s no in-between. So after our morning eggs cooked the way we like them we took

Ive said it before and ill say it again, Sleep really is a man’s best friend. Waking up after a nice vertical non-disturbed sleep practically in the afternoon, we caught the bus over to the nearest Skytrain station (Vancouver’s version of the underground) so we could load our transit card with some credit. Just behind this particular Skytrain station at Cambie & Broadway is Vancouver’s CityHall, a 1936 art deco building that sits proudly overlooking the Downtown core. A short

Today was our first day seeing Downtown Toronto, my memories from my last visit here are very dark because well it was really dark throughout the day, super cold and the struggle to walk due to everywhere being like an ice skating rink. So as you can imagine I didn’t exactly get the best impression, although now since coming here in the summer Toronto is definitely a summer city destination, its rich architecture, green spaces and proximity to the water will make anyone who l