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Anuradhapura – Sri Lanka
Third capital of the Kingdom of Rajarata On our next move in this trip through Sri Lanka, we change the base from Colombo to the

Kandy – Sri Lanka
Last capital of the ancient kings’ era of Sri Lanka Our next destination in Sri Lanka, a day trip from Colombo to Kandy, the cultural capital

Galle – Sri Lanka
Best preserved example of Portuguese fortified city in Asia Our next move in Sri Lanka after visiting its fascinating capital city, Colombo, (and still our base

Colombo – Sri Lanka
Kolon thota, port on the river Kelani Our 3rd long haul holidays so far this year: Sri Lanka; after Central America in January and Myanmar

Arad – Romania
Westernmost part of Transylvania On the following day after visiting Timisoara, our main destination for this weekend, and the beautiful city of Szeged right across the border in

Szeged – Hungary
City of Sunshine If I mentioned in the previous travel guide about Timisoara that we left Szeged only in mind should we have time for

Timisoara – Romania
The Little Vienna After a while since our first, and only visit to Romania before with Bucharest, Bran and Brasov; we return right in time

Helsingor – Denmark
Set of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet Moving onto one more last city to visit in this trip, was a choice between Helsingor, north of Copenhagen,

Malmo – Sweden
Malmhaug: Gravel Pile, Ore Hill As mentioned in the previous post, Copenhagen, visiting Malmo was part of our original plan in both 2011 and 2016 trips. If

Copenhagen – Denmark
Køpmannæhafn: Merchants’ Harbour This year is been a mix of going to places never visited before, and returning to many others as a second time

Paris – France
La Ville-Lumière: The City of Light Returning to Paris, probably the 6th time I come in my life, but still great as usual. There is

Four Lifts of the Canal du Centre – Belgium
The last 4 hydraulic lifts from the 20th century in operation in the world The Four Lifts of the Canal du Centre is the continuation

Major Mining Sites of Wallonia – Belgium
Industrial Valley of Belgium Belgium, a small country but so much to offer to any visitor. I cannot count any longer how many times I’ve

Milan – Italy
World’s Fashion Capital It was long long due to return to this city, the third time now, and counting. We kept postponing and not even

Manchester – United Kingdom
World’s first industrialised city Returning to the city where I lived for some months 11 years ago, and to this date, the best city I’ve

Trier – Germany
Roman Augusta Treverorum Our second part for this weekend after visiting the city of Luxembourg was for the historical small city of Trier, just across

Luxembourg City – Luxembourg
Gibraltar of the North Although cannot really recall how many times I’ve now been to Luxembourg, it is certainly getting closer to 10 for sure.

Isle of Man – British Isles
Ellan Vannin. A Self-governing Crown Dependency Glad to finally manage great flight tickets to Isle of Man, long time in the bucket list of the