exploration makes a better world

It was 23:00h and dark at take-off in Copenhagen. When the plane was rising, I saw a faint sunset at the horizon. Wondered how it will be in Iceland - it was 2 hours behind. Hmmm… Then I fell asleep.
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It is almost 2:00am, Copenhagen time, midnight Iceland time. I was woken up by something reddish [...]

The first time I had heard about Malmö was, of course, in footballian context, about their team, Malmö FF.
The city lies just across the water from Copenhagen. There’s a huge bridge connecting the two cities over the sea. Unfortunately, I slept through the journey, so I didn’t see it properly. Landed, half awake, in the [...]

Initially I wanted to go to Æroskøbing today, but I found out it takes 4 hours, one way, so I changed my mind to a trip to the North part of the Sjaelland island.
First, Roskilde.

In the former Danish capital I wanted to see Domkirke and the Viking museum.
Domkirke is the church where almost all Danish [...]

Lonely Planet - Scandinavian Europe is one of the best investments made so far. It has almost everything I am anticipating of needing.
An even better investment (as it was free) was the map taken from the hostel (Danhostel city center, for the record). It contains a 3 hours walking tour, nicely marked with main attractions. [...]

The most famous palace in Berlin

does not lie in Berlin. But in Potsdam, but nobody worries, no matter how persistently it rains - maybe because Potsdam is the former capital of the Prussian empire, or maybe because the palace is called Sans Souci, i.e. “no worry”.
Built by Friederich 2nd, a.k.a. The Great, a.k.a. Old Fritz, [...]

Architecture is not the thing that knocked me out in Berlin. Probably the most historically battered big metropolis of the Western World is a relatively chaotic mix of styles, mostly modern and… construction site-ish, with oasis of old buildings in-between.
What makes Berlin special though can hardly be captured in pictures. It is in the air, [...]

Because I left home so late, I was running the risk to arrive very very late at the final destination, therefore I changed plans and didn’t stop in Leipzig any more.

When saying “Würzburg”, I had absolutely no image forming in my head. Nothin. Emptyness. Grey spot. Not even blank, grey – no idea why.
Well, it was a very pleasant surprise. The first sight after emerging from the underground parking lot was this church

in this square

from where I randomly walked along this road

and then this road,

all [...]

I heard about Hechingen from Ms. S and Mr. N, our hosts in München, who described it as an insider tip - the most famous Hohenzollern castle is at Sigmaringen, but this one, at Hechingen, is a hidden gem.
And when I saw it from far away

it reminded me of a book with germanic fairytales [...]

Since i was already at the airport, i thought of taking a quick look at the city. Asked Jane to take me to the centre, some parking closeby. And I emerged on the surface directly in the Schillerplatz, lively on a Sunday fresh fruit market.

The big church on the left turned out to be the [...]