If you like ship cruises, if you like sailing, if you like sea, if you like Hamburg, if you like shows and entertainment, then you must visit Hamburg until the 6th of August!
Boris Becker opened yesterday the Hamburg Cruise Days which are lasting a week. 100 000 people, locals and tourists, took part to that spectacular opening in the big hanseatic city of Hamburg, one of the world’s biggest ports. And the legendary cruise ship Queen Mary II was there also! And other prominent cruise ships are waited to come during this week
All the city turned blue due to a spectacular breathtaking light show.
Yesterday, by the big opening, the rock legend Roger Cicero gave a convincing concert, and other stars will come each day of the mentioned week.
Thinking to London shall not mean only old buildings, obsolete citymarks. Not at all, this huge city has also a modern touch.
The London Eye is one of them. But what is London Eye actually? First look, and then read further.
London Eye, also named Millenium Wheel, is the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe, measuring 135 metres.
The London Eye is located on the western end of Jubilee gardens, on the south bank of River Thames. When former Prime Minister Tony Blair opened it to public on 31.12.1999 it was supposed to become one of London’s citymarks and major attractions. Which the London Eye did succesfully: it is the most popular paid tourist attraction in the U.K. (3 600 000 visitors former year)!
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By Travel Advisor
You need some time to understand and visit London. Hard to say how much time. Some cities accepted me fast, other much more difficult. I can’t name the reasons.
London accepted and swallowed me very fast, in 4 days (personal record). But for that I filled the following necessary steps, which I am recommending to you now, as you can do them cheap or free:
1. Catch and make photographies of the well known citymarks: Palace of Westminster and Big Ben; Westminster Abbey; St. Margaret’s Church; Tower bridge; Tower of London.
2. Visit the Royal Botanical Garden in Kew, which is superb and huge. Besides very many plants (it is one of the leading Botanical Gardens in the world) you can see many exotic ore old constructions (pagoda, Japanese house, etc)
3. Greenwich Observatory, which sets the time worldwide.
London is huge, London is old, but very dynamic. For 200 years (up to 1925) London has been world’s biggest city and the capital of the British Empire, which was a huge mix of people and covered fast the half of the planet.
London was founded by the Romans, under the name of Londinium. Today London counts 8 000 000 inhabitants, being the most populous city of the European Union, and the second in Europe after Moscow.
London is a megacity, and remains one of the world’s most important cities. The London City with its Stock Exchange decides many destinies.
Lying on the Thames mouth, London port has been for centuries world’s biggest. Heathrow airport, one of the London’s five airports, is the world’s busiest. The opening of the 5th Terminal made it even bigger, but did not solve all the problems.
As a traveler you must have found many funny or unconventional hotels. What I found in Ljubliana, Slovenia was nevertheless something special: a former jail decorated as a hotel. It is cheap, interesting and comfy. Artists from all over the world brought their contribution to this hotel. But in some places you guess the jail and the cells! Try it if you arrive in Ljubliana! And tell me about other strange hotels you met!
If someone is going to ask me about what I will be in 5 years, I have no answer. In 100 years I will probably leave this wonderful world and this blog. But in one more million years?
I don’t intend to make you sad. The truth is, I have an extraordinary other question to ask you: what was on the Earth 47 millions years ago? I am asking you this question because visiting the Mesel Cave near Darmstadt, Germany I found some interesting very well preserved fossils. I think this cave is heaven on Earth for any naturalist! In the photo you see an ancient art of horse, the Propalaeotherium! Which is exactly 47 millions years old! Really amazing.
If you think to London as an old obsolete city with old dusty buildings, must reconsider at once. London is also a modern everchanging fascinating city . Its city marks are not only the traditional Big Ben, Tower Bridge, Westminster Abbey etc!
No, Sir, it also has its modern buildings, and some of them are more than modern: they are even stranger!
Tags: Brussels, Citymark, Symbol
By Travel Advisor
The city of Brussels, the european capital, has a strange and not very decent citymark. But it is old enough to be an attraction of the city.
Brussels has also another citymark: the huge european Parliament. But I like more the little man urinating!
Compare and decide !
