Puerto Madryn After a 19 hours bus ride, I reached Puerto Madryn. 1322 km South of Buenos Aires. With busstops in different places, the ride is probably a little longer and in some places we drove on gravel roads, as the road was under repair. The city is in a bay behind the Peninsula Valdes,…
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I had been looking forward to see the pampas north of Buenos Aires. but although I had a seat at the front of the bus, I saw nothing. It rained just so much the whole way that we could not see anything. It still rained when we reached the outskirts og Buenos Aires but just…
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Rio de Janeiro Rio was, as I heard many times during the Olympics, really worth a visit, and I’m very happy I chose to start my trip here. The only thing that was not perfect, was the weather. Out of seven days it rained all day for two days, and it is at least one…
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This post is part of a series called Updates South America This blog is not intended to be a diary, but to get started, and because I got such a lovely start, here’s a post to tell how the journey began. If the beginning is an indication of how my trip is going to be,…
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A Guided Canal Tour The 7. may 2015, I was on a guided tour in the Copenhagen Harbour and the wizard was no less than the head of it all, the former Mayor and current Director of the Town and Port which is the company responsible for the entire development of the port. Kramer Mikkelsen…
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Istanbul – the City on two continents It was Dan Browns book Inferno that finally made me book a ticket to Istanbul. Having seen the places in Italy and just been to Venice, it was great to follow the book around in familiar areas but when they moved on to Istanbul, I was lost, so I decided; now is the time…
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Springbreak in Venice My first and only visit to Venice was a day trip on a holiday at Lake Garda as far back as 1987, so it was nice to finally see this amazing city again and with time to see the Islands in the lagoon. Transport in Venice is of course by boat. It applies to everything incl. ambulances, goods, buses, taxis. The local “buses” called Vaporetto are water buses going back and forth constantly and almost always full of people both locals and tourists. The most well-known boats are of course the Gondolas, which are…
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