This blog is dedicated to 3 places per city that make it special. Most of the time, those places are not the top tourist attractions. Instead, they offer a perspective on the city that I found very unique while visiting. The photo above shows the city of Munich, my current home base.
I have a somewhat ambivalent relationship with Shanghai, the financial metropolis of China. Having spent 8 years in the capital Beijing, I would consider myself more a fan of Beijing – tauntingly saying that all the history and culture is there and not in Shanghai. But in all honesty, Shanghai is an exciting city with…
What Paris is to France, Seoul is to South Korea. The omnipresent capital, self-proclaimed “S(e)oul of Asia”, epicenter of K-Pop and only 50 km away from its northern neighbour that has missiles aimed at it. Seoul and its metropolitan area make up for nearly half of of South Korea’s population of 50 million people. The…
Gyeongju, situated in the south-east of South Korea, is home to about 270 000 inhabitants and is thus, for Asian cities, rather small. So why bother going there? Gyeongju is the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Silla, which covered most of the area that is today known as North and South Korea. Silla lasted…
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