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Its Bank Holiday in the UK and we all are enjoying a long weekend. It’s nearly the end of Bank Holiday Monday and the long weekend will be over soon. After all the usual household chores, the best part was to sit and relax with a cup of tea and reminiscing old travels. I enjoy flipping through my old albums (yes I still maintain printed photos in albums). As I was flipping an album from my Europe travels, I came across one from Luxembourg and it provided an impulse to write about the beautiful city of Luxembourg which I visited few years bank. The GrandRead More →

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Sofia, the the capital of Bulgaria is also it’s largest city. Sofia is situated at the foothills of the Vitosha Mountain in the western part of Bulgaria. It is located in the centre of the Balkan peninsula, midway between the Black Sea on the east and the Adriatic Sea on the west and the Aegean Sea is on it’s south. The city’s history goes back to Thracian people who settled here in the 1400-1300 BC. Lot of archeological discoveries have been made even late in the 20th century and these can be seen through out the city centre and are preserved very nicely with descriptionsRead More →

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Wroclaw (pronounced vrots-wahf), the largest city in western Poland is situated on the banks of the Oder River. It is a beautiful city and well known for it’s Market Square which is beautifully lined with townhouses. The market square is one of the largest in Europe. During World War II the building around the market square were damaged, but most of these have been restored to their formal beauty. There are two town halls in the market square, the Old Town Hall with its large astronomical clock and the new town hall with a modern glass fountain in front of it. In one corner ofRead More →

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I recently travelled to Poland for a week and visited some beautiful cities and places of interest. Poland has a lot of history and heritage and I will be writing few posts about the places I visited. In this post I am sharing my experience of traveling to the Wieliczka [veel-eech-kah] Salt Mine of Krakow. The salt mine of Wieliczka is a Unesco World Heritage Site. The Wieliczka Salt Mine is around 15 kms from Krakow and can be reached within 20 minutes from the city centre of Krakow. There are tour buses or public transport from Krakow to reach Wieliczka. The history of theRead More →