Camping in Florence? Who knew! Review of my hostel in Florence – PLUS Camping Michelangelo on the hill near Piazzale Michelanagelo.
Adam
Barcelona, Potsdam and Brighton are all home to some important and extensive Orientalism & Chinoiserie architecture around Europe.
Review of the Ostello Santa Fosca—a hostel in downtown Venice. The good and the bad for this Venice hostel.
Info about the kiez culture in Berlin, with some of my favorite places in Kreuzberg. The Reichenberger Strasse kiez (neighborhood) is the epicenter of cool.
Don’t be fooled by my smile in this photo. It’s all just a show. Currywurst—that abomination of sausage—is one of Berlin’s most famous landmarks. But is it really that special? No! It’s the worst… What the eff is currywurst? Currywurst is boring. In basic terms it’s a hot dog cut up into pieces and slathered …
Photos from a vulture feeding in Tremp, Catalonia (Catalunya) with Photo Logistics—a nature photography company that specializes in European nature photography.
German culture is perfectly open to public nudity. I disrobe twice—once in a German spa and again in Berlin’s Tiergarten for some naked sunbathing in Berlin.
Torre Argentina, the site of Caesar’s assassination is now home to the Torre Argentina Cat Sancturary—a refuge for the cats of Rome.
While in Rimini, Italy, I took a short break from lounging on the beach and eating piatini (flatbread sandwiches which reminded me a lot of quesadillas) and spent a day in the Emilia-Romagna hinterland—the land behind the sea. A nearby city, Pennabili, was hosing an International Festival of Street Art called “Artisti in Piazza.” The …
This month’s topic for the expat-bloggers-in-germany roundtable (stammtisch) is football. I’m not sporty myself and don’t honestly know much about Berlin’s football (soccer) team. But I am gay! And luckily, Berlin, in its usual quirky ways, presented the opportunity to combine my need to write about football with my interest in dudes! Enter the Respect …