In this series we will help you organize your trip to the land of ice and fire, Iceland! We will share some tips to save money and we will take you with us for 18 days wandering around the island with our van! Do you want to go to Iceland but have no idea where …
Donegal: The Forgotten Land Part VI
This morning is dedicated to the city that gives us a bed to sleep on, Letterkenny.This city doesn’t give its name to the region nor is it its capital, despite it is the most populated and in fact the real commercial center of the county. Walking around Letterkenny This city was already important in the …
Donegal: The Forgotten Land Part V
We start the new day with a chilly breath!In the true sense of the word, there is a “breeze” that takes away!Below you can see my model that gives a demonstration of this. Grianàn of Aileach Grianàn of Aileach is probably the most famous historical monument in Inishowen (another Donegal peninsula) and the view from …
Donegal: The Forgotten Land Part IV
This morning we leave the beautiful Banagh Peninsula to continue north.Along the way we cannot ignore the call of the Dolmens and with them all the cultural heritage of this country.We stop to look for the Kilclooney Dolmen, in the small village of the same name. I have an idea of where it can be …
Day 11 and 12: Bye Bye New York
We are almost at the end of our holiday in New York.We dedicate the day to walking first of all through Little Italy and SoHo, the area around our hotel.Here there are many cast iron facades of the old buildings and a wagon of fire stairs.SoHo is short for “South of Houston Street” and since …
Day 10: Mom, I celebrate Christmas in Manhattan!
Merry Christmas Manhattan!!!It may seem that on Christmas Day everything is closed and finding yourself celebrating it abroad is not great, but for once it is not so.When we went to Budapest we actually struggled to find open places to visit and where we could eat.In New York live a lot of Jews who work …
Day 9: Christmas Eve in Lower Manhattan
Christmas Eve has arrived! It’s our Lady Liberty‘s day! It seems strange to me to have left it for the end of the holiday; but Lower Manhattan I didn’t know where to put it except when all the other museums were closed.Tomorrow, Christmas Day, this attraction will also be closed, so today is perfect!So, with …
Day 8: My name is Philadelphia (Philly for friends!)
Early in the morning we take the metro (which as I imagined is not empty despite the time) and return from the parts of the Vessel, in the place of the RATS, to wait for the bus.This time we do not find people to converse with but the trip to Philadelphia will still be quite …
Day 7: Harlem Reinassance and Dyker Heights
We arrived on Sunday, the day I booked our little tour in Harlem, home to the great African American community and cradle of the “Harlem Renaissance”; the ideal historical moment to try to achieve fame if you were an ambitious black musician. Harlem is located at the highest end of Manhattan; although many believe that …
Day 6: The National Mall and its memorials
This morning we made up for yesterday’s little food with a nice breakfast of pancakes; two guys prepared it for us; these are not only the cooks but they have to make sure that everyone takes only four pancakes (actually if you leave us self-managed… these pancakes disappear in a heartbeat!)I would like to chat …