Category: Europe

Sony Centre at Potsdamer Platz 0

Sony Centre at Potsdamer Platz

The Sony Centre in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin is a new entertainment complex and a very popular meeting point, the young and the beautiful meet under the huge tent like atrium for a bite to...

Hitler’s Prora Spa 1

Hitler’s Prora Spa

While you could describe Hitler as not one of the nicest people about, in fact he was one of the worst, but while in power he did start huge and lavish projects to try...

Brandenburger Tor the gateway to Berlin 0

Brandenburger Tor the gateway to Berlin

The Brandenburg Gate is one of the most recognisable structures in the German capital Berlin. Built just north of the parliament The Reichstag it was commissioned by Friedrich Wilhelm II as a sign of...

Piazza San Marco -St. Marks’s Square 0

Piazza San Marco -St. Marks’s Square

Piazza San Marco or St. Mark’s Square as we like to call it, is probably Venice’s popular tourist destination, not only for people but also for pigeons, they seem to out number people 10...

Tropical island in a Blimp hanger 0

Tropical island in a Blimp hanger

Well we thought we had seen it all but this takes the cake and it is in Germany of all places. It is a huge airship hanger which has been transformed into an amazing...

15 years of magic and now rats 0

15 years of magic and now rats

After a shaky start Disneyland Paris is now one of Europe’s premier attractions and is going from strength to strenght. There’s quiet a few new attractions to celebrate the 15th anniversary and an addition...

Innsbruck’s Triumphpforte 0

Innsbruck’s Triumphpforte

Way back in 1765 to honor the marriage of her son, and to mourn the death of her husband Empress Maria Theresa ordered a arch to be built. One side of the arch celebrates...

Munich’s giant whoopee cushion 0

Munich’s giant whoopee cushion

The FIFA World Cup came to Germany in 2006 and to accommodate this huge sporting event many stadiums were built and the most spectacular was the Allianz Stadium in Munich which was designed by...

All aboard the Tramvaje in Prague 0

All aboard the Tramvaje in Prague

There is a lot to see in the Czech city of Prague and there is no better way to cover the distances between palaces, castles and museums than on the Tramvaje. The local tramway...

Las Vegas fun coming to Spain 1

Las Vegas fun coming to Spain

Plans are underway to build a huge Las Vegas style city in Spain called Gran Escala in the Los Monegros Desert about half way between Madrid and Barcelona. The plan will feature huge resorts...