For several days we've been hanging out at the Colours of Ostrava music festival in Ostrava in the eastern Czech Republic. We will tell you more about the festival and the concerts later, but we have to start by showing some pictures from the festival area. This is definitely the coolest festival environment we've ever seen!
Read moreNow it's time to tell you more about what we did in Pécs in southern Hungary. This included a visit to a champagne cellar where we tried pezsgö, beer from microbreweries and really good food at the Zsolnay cultural centre.
Read morePécs in Hungary. Have you heard of Pécs (pronunciation: Pietch)? We never had, until we went on this trip to southern Hungary on the Croatian border. But then you start with zero expectations! Huge and beautiful church, lovely squares and Segway is a bit about what we write about. Welcome to Pécs in Hungary!
Read moreCan you eat well in Finland? What do you think of when you hear "Finnish food"? I guess I used to think of Karelian pies, carrot box or maybe some bland everyday meat and potato dish. But now I know that Finnish cuisine has more to offer than that.
Read moreWhen we were in Turku we visited Koulu, or "Skolan" as it is called in Swedish. It doesn't sound like much fun, but the old girls' school now houses a brewery and a restaurant, and here we got to take part in a beer tasting!
Read moreAre you a foodie and thinking of travelling to Turku? Then you should definitely plan a visit to the Turku Market Hall, or Kauppahalli as it is called in Finnish. Here you will find everything from fish and seafood to Karelian pies and pastries. We took the opportunity to try two local specialities that we highly recommend!
Read moreYesterday we visited the Art Bank art museum, which turned out to have some real surprises. The day before yesterday we tried some of the most typical winter activities in the Turku archipelago: ice fishing and sauna bathing. Yesterday it was time to continue exploring the archipelago outside Turku. We started in Korpo, where a barefoot trail in the forest offered unexpected surprises. Then we went to an art museum with an impressive collection in Pargas.
Read moreAt lunchtime yesterday we landed at Helsinki airport. It was not quite as cold as we had been warned, but minus degrees, wintry and sunny. We were picked up by a minibus with organisers from Visit Turku and a bunch of travel bloggers from Finland, Estonia, Poland, Germany, UK and China. And so it was off to the Turku archipelago ...
Read moreNow we have done some shopping in Riga. What we like about countries in the East is that it is often possible to find cheap clothes, while at the same time there may be a different selection than at home. In Riga you will of course find all the big usual chains, but if you look a little, you can also find a lot of other things. So go shopping in Riga! Did we come home with something then? Yep, we did!
Read moreToday we tell you about Riga's best restaurants in Latvia, in our opinion. The restaurants in Riga really surprised positively and we have already told you about 3 good restaurants in the city. Although all the restaurants we visited were really good, there were two that stood out, and we'll tell you about them today. These restaurants are not just for food, but for an extraordinary experience.
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