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  • Auditorio de Tenerife
    90 out of 100
    Auditorio de Tenerife - Santa Cruz, Spain
    Audacious Auditorium (05.06.2008 19:51)
    When we stayed in Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife in December last year, I went on a coach tour to the north east of the island including the capital Santa Cruz. Our first stop was the auditorium in Santa Cruz (built from 2000 to 2003) at the southern end of the harbour area, designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, who is famous for combining architecture, engineering, and [more...]
  • Bremer Stadtmusikanten
    90 out of 100
    Bremer Stadtmusikanten - Bremen, Germany
    Four Famous Animals (02.06.2008 20:15)
    You are standing in front of the City Hall, go round the left corner and you will find the statue of the four town musicians, their correct address is Unser Lieben Frauen Kirchhof (Churchyard, Church of our Lady). The bronze sculpture was created in 1951 by the artist Gerhard Marcks. You remember The Brothers Grimms fairy tale? A donkey, a dog, a cat and a cock escape from their owners who [more...]
  • Palace of Knossós
    80 out of 100
    Palace of Knossós - Heraklion, Greece
    Bonking Bulls (02.06.2008 14:07)
    Today I want to tell you why Europe is called Europe, come with me to Crete, to the Palace of Knossòs (stress on the second syllable) to be precise, and I'll tell you the myth and also some others which you may already have heard or read about but maybe don't associate with this Greek island. We're in the Bronze Age, in the third millenium BC , one day Zeus, the leader of the gods, who was [more...]
  • Panorama
    70 out of 100
    Panorama - Elsfleth, Germany
    Schön und teuer (28.05.2008 22:58)
    Als ich das letzte Mal in Elsfleth war, gab es dieses Gebäude noch nicht, wie ich hörte, steht es seit etwa fünf Jahren. Ich muss sagen, es gefällt mir gut. Es erdrückt zwar optisch das sowieso schon kleine Denkmal für den Schwarzen Herzog, aber das kann billigend in Kauf genommen werden. Im Erdgeschoss befindet sich die geschmackvoll eingerichtete Touristen Information, im ersten Stock das [more...]
  • Last Bratwurst Before America
    90 out of 100
    Last Bratwurst Before America - Cabo de Sao Vincente, Portugal
    Last Bratwurst Before America (22.05.2008 17:12)
    The Cabo de São Vicente is the most south-western point of the European mainland. Already the Celts worshipped this place, the Romans consecrated it to Saturn and the Christians to Saint Vicente whose corpse is said to have been washed ashore in the area about 300 BC. They built a cloister which was destroyed by Sir Francis Drake, the remains disappeared in the great earthquake in 1755. In the [more...]
  • Mercado de San Lorenzo
    80 out of 100
    Mercado de San Lorenzo - Florence, Italy
    Merry Market (21.05.2008 14:01)
    Standing in front of the Duomo facing the façade, you should look to the right where you can see traffic lights. Cross there and youll be in the street leading to the street market San Lorenzo, famous for leather handbags, gloves, shoes, belts and jackets. All stalls display the sign ‘Fixed Prices, haggling is looked down upon, this is not the south of Italy. Nearly all salespeople know English [more...]
  • The Orchid Garden
    90 out of 100
    The Orchid Garden - Puerto de la Cruz, Spain
    Sexy Orchids (19.05.2008 19:09)
    One of the lesser known attractions of Puerto de la Cruz, the resort in the north of Tenerife, is the Orchid Garden Sitio Litre. The mansion was built in 1730 and in 1774 the British merchant Archibald Little bought it together with a piece of land which he converted into a beautiful garden. Sitio is the Spanish word for site and the surname Little somehow changed into Litre. In 1856 the Vice [more...]
  • Shrine of Padre Pio
    40 out of 100
    Shrine of Padre Pio - San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
    Sticky Fingers (18.05.2008 18:48)
    Let me introduce you to Padre Pio and show you his church. If you‘re not a pious Catholic, no Christian, maybe no believer at all, you may not know who I‘m talking about. Padre Who? Let me tell you that he‘s the top saint of the Catholic church, he‘s the No 1 of all 821 saints. According to a Catholic site the making of saints started in the 10th century, during the Middle Ages 96 people were [more...]
  • Schnoor
    80 out of 100
    Schnoor - Bremen, Germany
    Olde Worlde Bremen (18.05.2008 18:17)
    If you want to know what Bremen looked like in the olden days many centuries ago, visit the Schnoor. Look out for the Church of St. John (St. Johannis Kirche), walk down some steps and youll find yourself in a maze of narrow (about 4 m wide) alleyways. Small houses stand side by side in a row, lined up like pearls on a string - ‘Schnur in German or ‘Schnoor in local dialect. Originally fishers, [more...]
  • The Wallace Collection
    100 out of 100
    The Wallace Collection - London, United Kingdom
    Swinging Rococo (17.05.2008 14:41)
    Not even ten minutes on foot away from the hustle and bustle of Oxford Street the connoisseur tourist finds Manchester Square with the Hartford House on one side. The building contains one of the worlds finest private collections ever assembled by a single family, and since 1897 when the widow of Sir Richard Wallace died leaving to Britain its largest private bequest ever, no artefact has been [more...]
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