Slovenia is a popular destination for travellers from all over the world, and for several reasons. First of all, it’s a small country, so you don’t have to travel far from your holiday home to reach the many natural treasures the country has on offer. Secondly, it is blessed with some astonishing and pristine nature. …
As a chemistry teacher, I have a profound interest in the chemical elements that build our planet. As a geology enthousiast, looking for minerals is also a natural reflex for me. So if there is a world heritage site dedicated to the mining and exploitation of such a rare and peculiar element as mercury, I …
Our holiday on this magnificent tropical island was coming to an end. We still had a part of the island that was left unexplored: the north of Grande Terre. We started our journey with a swim on the beach Anse du Souffleur. It’s a popular beach with locals and it’s easy to see why. The …
View from our room. It was time for us to switch to the second part of the island. We had spent a week in the mountaineous Basse Terre and were going to spend 5 days in La Toubana, located in Saint Anne on Grande Terre. Grande Terre is the flat part of the island and …
pic by guadeloupe-paradise.fr A little bit offshore the North coast of Basse-Terre, roughly in front of Sainte Rose, you find the Grand Cul-de-sac Marin, an ocean spot covering 15000 hectares of coral reefs. You’ll find little ‘islands’ there, that are actually nothing more than sandbanks with some vegetation on them. They are tiny paradises for …
When pursuing a quest to check out as much UNESCO world heritage sites as possible, one occasionally comes across some unexpected scenery. For example: a 19th-20th century coal mining site, such as the one in Essen (Germany). I must admit we were a bit prepossessed towards an industrial site, as we are nature-lovers with a …
Near the volcan La Soufrière the river Carbet flows to the ocean through a series of waterfalls, called “chutes” in French. We decided to head to that area again to visit them. We left Deshaies around lunchtime and drove to the right part of Basse-Terre, since the waterfalls can only be reached from that side. …
When the Austrian Archduke Charles, son of Ferdinand I, established a stud farm in (then) Lipizza to breed horses for the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, this was the start of a breeding process that finally resulted in the development of an elegant, white breed known as the Lipizzaner. It is a cross between Spanish …
After the first excursions, we felt like it was time to do some serious exercise. We decided to hike La Soufrière, the active volcano on Guadeloupe. The starting point of the hikes is above the village of Saint-Claude and the views while driving up there where already quite spectacular. We had the luck of traveling …
On this sunny Sunday afternoon, it’s time to write my last blogpost of the Finland roadtrip. On the last days of this trip, we headed down south. First, we made a stop in picturesque Porvoo, which is the second oldest town in Finland. I really loved the red houses alongside the waterfront and the cobbled …
