Showing posts with label Architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Architecture. Show all posts

Sunday, 25 June 2017

Cinque Terre

Even though the place has become very popular and commercial, believe me when I say, it is for a good reason. On our last trip to Italy we went to beautiful Liguria, swam and sunbathed on the beaches of Lerici and went to a new place in the evening every day. One of those places was Cinque Terre. For those of you who haven`t heard about this place Cinque Terre in Italian means five lands and marks five villages on the coast of Liguria (northern coast of Italy). The villages span high from the coastline into the hills and that is what makes them so incredibly fascinating.
Riomaggiore 

If you`ve been thinking or planning to visit this beautiful place, my tip is to visit the villages Manarola and Riomaggiore which are really something special, while the remaining three (Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso Al Mare) are also nice but in my opinion not worth the while.  All of the photos you see on the internet regarding this place are the photos of Manarola or Riomaggiore.

Riomaggiore

The good thing about these two villages (which I highly recommend for you to visit) is that they are easily accessible from La Spezia, which is the biggest city in that region. From La Spezia, you can easily take the ferry or the train to go to the places and the road is fairly good if you wish to travel with a car. The road to the remaining three villages that I mentioned at the beginning is quite curvy, narrow and pretty dangerous. Not to mention long. 


All of this does not taint this wonderful place that should be, if it already isn`t, on your travel bucket list. I cannot quite describe the feeling you get once you arrive there with words, especially in the words of the language that is not your native language. However I hope the photos will speak not one, but a thousand words and transfer to you at least a bit of the emotions and impressions we felt and experienced. And I hope they will make you want to come to this place, because if you do, you will definitely not regret it. 

 Manarola

  Manarola

Manarola

Thursday, 8 September 2016

71k

71000 is a postcode of a certain city located at the crossroads between the East and the West, at the crossroads of religions, nations and cultures. The name of the city is Sarajevo.

Sarajevo. My home town. A place you can love and a place you can hate, usually at the same time, but a place that will definitely not leave you indifferent. There is an old saying here that who ever once drinks water from Bascarsija (an old part of Sarajevo), will always come back to it. And usually the saying comes true.

I know veryone of us loves the places we were born in, but Sarajevo... Sarajevo's a special kind of love. The kind of love you can only experience by walking through its streets, by listening to the church bells and prayer calls from the mosques, by inhaling the smells of it's delicious cuisine and by drinking that mysterious water from Bascarsija. I dare you to come here and walk that walk, taste that food and drink that water from Bascarsija. I dare you to leave a piece of your heart here and always come back to it.