Travel Guides: Amazing Barcelona

Posted in: Featured, Travel by Theo Grigore | October 26th 2010 | no comments

Being the second largest city in Spain and having a population which exceeds 1,620,000 inhabitants, Barcelona is certainly one of the most beautiful tourist attractions in Europe. Holding some of the most interesting sights to be seen in the world’s oldest continent, Barcelona is a destination [...]

A Travel Into Wedding Royals

By Catalina Toma | April 28th 2011 | no comments

“I shall be marrying a prince!”- I can assuredly state that many women or better said girls out there have said this at a certain point in their early stage in life. It most probably all happened when inexplicably [...]

Chocolate Traveler-II

By Catalina Toma | April 27th 2011 | no comments

A chocolate lover will probably choose to say that chocolate could make the world go round. And just if it doesn’t hold the ability to really make the world go round it can most surely make you go round the world tracing its sweetness in [...]

Chocolate Traveler

By Catalina Toma | April 27th 2011 | no comments

“When your feet feel like they’re made of stones, / And your bones are full of lead, / And your muscles feel like they’re galvanized, / And the concrete’s in your head; / When your blood flows like molasses, / [...]

Thy Name Is Happy Easter!-II

By Catalina Toma | April 19th 2011 | no comments

“Thou art the Sun of other days. / They shine by giving back the rays…” (John Keble, The Christian Year: Easter Days) Transmitting live on Easter from the sunny Greece may prove to be [...]

This Time For Africa

By Catalina Toma | April 18th 2011 | no comments

“I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy.” (Ernest Hemingway) Running across Hemingway’s words I couldn’t but wish I started my Monday morning nowhere else but in Africa. But since I do not have the power to fly over miles and [...]

Journey Into Nomadic Lifestyle-II

By Catalina Toma | April 15th 2011 | no comments

The journey into nomadic life takes us further on to the Mongolian lands, the land “of the eternal blue sky”, a country consisting mainly in vast areas of steppe, a country with no fences and thus a perfect place for all the nomads gathered on [...]

Journey Into Nomadic Lifestyle

By Catalina Toma | April 15th 2011 | no comments

“I walk all around with no aim for location / One night I’m here, next I’m across the nation / With no plans for the future I wander the land / I do everything on the fly and unplanned /One night I find myself [...]

Traveling Taboo-II

By Catalina Toma | April 12th 2011 | no comments

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one’s little corner of the earth all one’s [...]

Traveling Taboo

By Catalina Toma | April 12th 2011 | no comments

According to a saying well known by some and less known by others “Every land has its own law.” Like it or hate it our entire life gets to be governed by laws, ancient or newly installed ones, written or unwritten ones, yet nevertheless laws which we make for [...]

Espresso Yourself While Traveling-II

By Catalina Toma | April 9th 2011 | no comments

“Be a coffee-drinking individual-espresso yourself!”- This got to be the way in which an anonymous person chose to express himself in matters of coffee! What will your way of doing the exact [...]

Espresso Yourself While Traveling

By Catalina Toma | April 9th 2011 | no comments

Much like Harry Mahtar said once “I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.” And this gets to be the way many of us choose to orchestrate their mornings, letting the strong aroma of this brown chocolate liquid [...]

“Prisoner” Of The Bedouins Of Jordan-II

By Catalina Toma | April 7th 2011 | no comments

Louis L’Amour once said that “You can’t fight the desert…you have to ride it.” And the best way to ride the desert of Jordan would be to start your ride in the valley of Wadi [...]

“Prisoner” Of The Bedouins Of Jordan

By Catalina Toma | April 7th 2011 | no comments

Evoking images of Bedouins moving around or better said floating on the dunes of the desert, gliding on vast sandy lands, in fact lands consisting only in sand if we were to look at the desert part only…there is a [...]

Next Stop: Beer-II

By Catalina Toma | April 4th 2011 | no comments

“They who drink beer will think beer.” (Washington Irving) And just in case you wish to drink your senses all the way in and out then you may as well head towards Mexico City. Once there you may choose to party on tequila and beer. Being [...]

Next Stop:Beer

By Catalina Toma | April 4th 2011 | no comments

“A long time ago, way back in history / When all there was to drink was nothing but cups of tea / Along came a man by the name of Charlie Mopps / And he invented a wonderful drink and he made it out of [...]

Under The Paris Sky-II

By Catalina Toma | April 1st 2011 | no comments

“Under the sky of Paris / Runs a happy river / Hum hum / During the night it lulls to sleep / The poor people of the street / Under the sky of Paris / God’s birds / Hum hum / Come from all over the world / To have a chat.” By taking a close look [...]

Under The Paris Sky

By Catalina Toma | April 1st 2011 | no comments

“Somewhere in Paris / A quaint café / Quiet and soundless / A starry night / The city it sleeps / The Frenchmen await / A small revolution / Tonight / Somewhere in Paris / A quaint café / Waiting for change / Dawn [...]

Traveling The Dance-II

By Catalina Toma | March 30th 2011 | one comment

Someone once said once that “Music must be swallowed by movement.” Yet, I could add to this that travel may as well help one swallow music and whole part of a culture as well. Floating on salsa steps may as well [...]