PHOTO | Is Tbilisi, Georgia, a city worth visiting?

Short answer: Yes! Tbilisi is a place to experience. Normally, I wouldn’t have planned a vacation there, even a short one, but back in 2019, a good friend of mine, footballer Andrei Ciolacu, played in the Georgian championship, so I took advantage of the context and paid him a four-day visit, to the most exotic…

PHOTO | Banska Bystrica, a hidden gem in Central Europe

Exploring places where few choose to go for vacation is one of the biggest pleasures of my life. 2020 was an year when I could explore this hobby as it fullest. Just COVID-19 was about to severely hit Europe, I took advantage of me being relocated for work in Budapest, Hungary, and decided to leverage…

Is Norway an expensive country?

Funny enough, I saw recently a map of the European countries with the word Japanese people are associating each. There, for Norway the word was expensive. It is true also, that Norway is usually perceived in general as a very, if not at least, expensive country. Is that true? I will tell you what my…

Bergen, great place to be for the New Years Eve!

Bergen, the former capital of medieval Norway, and the current second largest city, is a key location if you want to experience the Nordic country at its finest. Said to be the rainiest location in Europe (!!!), Bergen really has a lot to offer. When we chose to spend a third New Years Eve in…

Cape Town, the most beautiful city in the world

It is a statement, but is not my creation, or my final conclusion. Cape Town is really regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in the world to visit, and being there for more than one week helped in drawing my own opinions. It is not easy to choose such a destination, especially when…

How to tackle the Romanian mountains

The Carpathian Mountains are quite famous, and many foreigners, when hearing of Romania, think of idyllic rocky landscapes and beautiful mountain villages. In part, they know the essential, but when you want to enter into details, things are not as simple as they appear. First hand, Romania doesn’t had a functional transportation network, regardless of…

Seychelles, the complete journey for a perfect experience

Remember I have already shared a big hunch of our honeymoon in Seychelles, but also mentioned that the two-weeks experience cannot be efficiently resumed in one single post. I’ve preferred to expose La Digue separately, for a better understanding of what Seychelles is like, but of course, the rest of the experience needs to be…

Corsica: Restonica Ultra Trail by UTMB. What a story it is!

I have never heard of Restonica until 2024, but I did heard of Corsica, and actually craving for some time to visit the island. I just didn’t know when and how. Then, at Lavaredo Ultra Trail, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, in June 2024, my first “by UTMB” event things escalated. While we were visiting the…