Tag: Curious
Venice’s gondolas and the sustainability journey
Sustainability! Is there still a tourism provider who does not emphasize in the first three sentences of its “philosophy” how sustainable it is, wants to be or always has been?…
Travel column: About e-bikers and mouth robbers – travel
“If you come into someone else’s vineyard, you can eat as many grapes as you like until you are full, only you are not allowed to put anything in a…
Destination Names: A Brief History of the Slights – Travel
Anyone who claims that names are nothing but smoke and mirrors, i.e. not worth mentioning, is most likely trying to hide the fact that he or she has a terribly…
Summer Vacation: The Pitfalls of Family Vacation – Travel
How was the family vacation? Nice, but also exhausting somehow? Because the hope of relaxation has gotten a little under the wheels or between the grains of sand? The promise…
Bali: Of Monkeys and Vacationers – Travel
What a monkey! Who hasn’t been called that in the past year and a half of the pandemic – purely internally, of course. Politicians and life partners, lobbyists and virologists.…
Dare Giro d’Italia – also for tourists – trip
A sweet childhood memory of the Adriatic Sea: the ice cream, the pizza, the rolls – everything different and, yes: better than at home. But all things that you knew…
Vacation destinations for series fans: Travel to popular filming locations – travel
Take the Nord-Pas-de-Calais – what a discovery! For a long time, many French people located the region on the far side of the moon and even mistook the language of…
Summer 2021: The paradox of vacation – travel
Vacation is one of those things. One looks forward to it for months, saves money, sifts through offers, brings diverging views within the family to the design of the most…
“End of the journey” column: More risk! – Travel
“If you put yourself in danger, you perish in it,” the saying goes. But is that so? The saying could be from Spahn Jens or from Söder Markus, but it…
Travel column: About men in shorts – travel
Clothes make the man, as the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller knew more than 150 years ago. He made a nice story out of this idea in which a tailor is…