Tag: Travel

Last time I only briefly mentioned Werregarenstraat , the only street in the city where graffiti is officially allowed. It’s barely visible from Hoogpoort it joins to:

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Ghent inhabitants are very proud of the fact that their city once (in 2004) won the City-People-Light Award and received three stars from the Michelin guide for its lighting. January next year there will be a regular Light Festival in Ghent (held once in three years). In the meantime I’ll show you the night city as of January 2014.

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It’s easy to find beautiful places here in Europe, outside of the desert, even in our damp winter. We stumbled upon a good accommodation offer in Ghent, one of the prettiest Belgian cities. I’ve been in Ghent before, but only short time so I couldn’t see much.

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Now that we’ve been to the see, which is east, and the desert, which is west of Hurghada, it’s time to see the most interesting bit, the city itself.

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From the miraculous sea we migrate westward, to the desert that spans most of the area at the opposite side of Hurghada city. Desert is something you can always count on here in Africa, it’s just a couple of miles away from the city:

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Happy New Year everyone!

The lucky thirteen has come to an end. One of my achievements in the last year was reaching the total run of 800 km. I registered all my workouts in a Google Drive spreadsheet (you can use this document as a template if you wish). Among other things, it gives you a forecast on the total run at the end of the year, which is a very good motivation. It forced me for one to run 25 km in the last two days of 2013.

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Sagres is a small town in western Algarve. It is noteworthy mainly for the nearby Sagres Point (Ponta de Sagres ) and its fortress.

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Our tour guide described Alte, which is 20 km northwards of Albufeira, as “the most picturesque village in Algarve”. To verify this statement one would have to travel around all other Algarvian villages, so let’s take it on trust.

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Albufeira is a main tourist destination. Fair enough, given its vast ocean beach and three hundred sunny days a year.

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Concerning the car we rented at our hotel in Albufeira, where we were staying.

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