C’est la ville balnéaire d’Estonie, “Summer Capital of Estonia” comme on dit ici, en été c’est plein à craquer. En revanche dès début septembre, ça se vide. Comme l’[...]
Viljandi is known for its teachings in music and traditional cultures. It’s a beautiful old city with Germanic influences, but small, with a beautiful lake at the foot of it. Summary Viljandi is[...]
Summary The backstory The venue The team The meal The verdict Adrian Mancuso, originally from Melbourne, Australia, lives in Krakow and runs the cool house parties there named Dubniki alongside with h[...]
Tallinn est au bord de la Baltique, mais c’est une ville plus calme que Riga, la population y est quasiment deux fois moindre (420 000 contre 700 000) . Il y a une vieille ville, de type alleman[...]
Venice, is Venice…except that like Florence or Prague it’s a city that I had abstained from going to because I was worried I’d end up in a tourist circus. But since then I’ve h[...]
Bassano del GRappa is a beautiful medieval city an hour away from Venice by train. It’s this city that gives grappa its famous name. Not only that, but it’s also Diesel‘s ( the jeans[...]
Un parc plein de charme et méconnu, type jardin à l’anglaise. Parfait aussi pour les parents avec enfants car il y a un manège, des balançoires, une aire de jeu sympa. En plus en face il y a le [...]
It’s a well known tea shop in Wroclaw. Its positives are the quiet space, notably with the Asian garden at the back, and the tea choices which is relatively important in numbers. Besides that, t[...]
Probably the best pizza place in Wroclaw, with Happy Little Truck of course: a real fire wood oven, the Polish chef learned her craft in Italy. It’s delicious. Summary Probably the best pizza pl[...]
Bucharest Bucharest, which we used to call Little Paris, was unfortunately disfigured by Ceaucesu. Today, we have huge avenues, just asking to get stuck in traffic , lined with high, grey buildings; n[...]
S’il y a bien une ville qui n’aura pas correspondu à l‘image que je m’en étais faite d’après les guides et autres échos, c’est bien Riga. J’avais imaginé une ville satellitaire russe, sombre et impers[...]
Ljubljana is on Italy, Austrian and Croatian time. It’s a strong and very well organized country. Rick Steves, a European tourism star for Americans said it would be the next Prague. Let’s hope it doe[...]
In the 15th century it was the last European country to convert to Christianity (they’ve caught up since then: 80% of the country is catholic) and they’ve kept close ties to paganism and n[...]
Summary The backstory The venue The team The meal The verdict I met Dj Schwa while I was having a good time at the Beer Garten Na Hradbach located in the park Vyšehrad. We hooked up immediately. He ha[...]
Summary A bit of history Bologna is a much more complex city than it seems. A university city, we find the oldest university in the world here, it’s a city traditionally on the left in politics.[...]
Summary A bit of history It was a Hapsburg family that ruled the country, the Austrian empire, then the Czech Republic became independent in 1918. Afterwards, after the Second World War, the heavy and[...]
Summary A bit of history Valencia was known as the City of the Braves, because it was here that roman soldiers came to retire. The old town was actually 4km away from the sea as a protection against i[...]
Summary The backstory The venue The team The meal The verdict Mercato Delle erbe: an old indoor market where you can shop for food or eat roasted fish. our version of san Miguel market in Madrid. Via [...]