Green hiking country Luxembourg
The Grand Duchy offers hikers around 3,500 kilometers of signposted trails. The Move-We Carry luggage service makes multi-day tours easy!
Travel
Encounters with people and the discovery of regional peculiarities are the focus of our travels. Research often leads us to a second level in the story, providing historical, scientific, social or political insights. If you are just looking for information on a particular destination, you should definitely enter via the countries page. Then everything we have ever written about a country is presented, no matter how absurd, such as the Icelandic leader sheep or the eating habits in the Japanese Kabuki theater.
Iceland, where Wasabi grows
Wasabi, one of the most demanding plants of all, grows in Iceland’s harsh climate? Daringly, two Icelandic engineers choose the capricious Japanese pungent to create Iceland’s first export vegetable.
Flamenco in Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Every year in May it gets crowded in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. Roma families make a pilgrimage to Black Sara. Flamenco of the Camargue Gitanos resounds in the narrow streets
The green Muggio Valley in Ticino
The sparsely populated Valle di Muggio above Lake Lugano is the southernmost valley in Ticino. Chestnut forest alternates with dry meadows and orchards
Sion: city – country – wine
Valais is the largest wine-growing region in Switzerland. Whether on a city tour, an e-bike tour or hiking tours, Valais wine is always a big topic
Waldeck in the Upper Palatinate
Once Waldeck was situated between Franconia and Bohemia on a trade route, which today is a hiking and biking route. A vacation resort with nature experiences for city dwellers
The small islands of Malta and Gozo
Malta and the neighboring island of Gozo offer a lot in a small area. Greeks called Malta the navel of the sea. Knights of St. John built it into a strong fortress
Bougainville: Emergence of a Nation
In 2019, the population of the former German colony of Bougainville voted for independence from Papua New Guinea with a majority of 98 percent.
Pamir stage of the Silk Road
Silk gave it its name. Many things were traded on the Silk Road. The Chinese offered silk to the Kyrgyz in exchange for good horses.
Airplane wreckage deep in the jungle
In the jungle of the Pacific island of Bougainville lies the wreckage of the plane of the Japanese General Yamamoto, who was responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor
Basel on the Rhine
The Swiss border and trading city of Basel is home to Switzerland’s oldest university, 46 museums and has served as a refuge for many a maverick thinker
Encounters in Papua New Guinea
The island nation of Papua New Guinea is considered the country with the greatest cultural diversity in the world. About Polynesian deep-sea sailors and traces of cannibalism
