In Toronto you have the feeling being in an aspiring, trendy city. Also photos from the nightly skyline confirm this, many buildings look new and modern. I liked it, standing on the root top with a tripod and taking photos from all directions. Since there was a pool with hotel guests jumping into the water, I had to take care that my equipment stayed protected 🙂
I have seen two Red Forts in India, one in Agra and that one on the photo in New Delhi. It’s an impressive complex, I think you walk about 20 minutes beside those big walls. Inside you have a wide area of gardens and dozens of buildings, partially built with the red stones. I have seen thousands of visitors, mostly from India.
In Vienna the place in the front of the town hall is very popular. Often there are events with food tents, wine and beer bars and a chilly atmosphere. Those events have a motto, like Skating or Mountain Biking, Styria fest or Winter Ice dream,… If you are near, please visit
I have never seen so many people form different cultures on such a “small” place as on the sightseeing deck of the Niagara Falls. It’s the ultimate exploring experience, the great spectacle of the falls and the visitors from the whole world.
I like this kind of architecture from Friedensreich Hundertwasser. It’s lovely that inside the building this architecture gets continued. The lobby, the corridors, the rooms, nothing is really straight, all a bit rounded, it’s a pleasure atmosphere. There it’s always warm and you smell a good scent and then you have the thermal bath to relax.
Hearing cowbells from a far away alp, breathing fresh air on a mountaintop and looking down to that white church … I like Switzerland 🙂 Not only Swiss products are highest quality, also the nature there, the mountain railways and the food at the mountain huts.
The nightly walking tour in Nice brought me to many buildings with magnificent illumination, as here the Palais de Justice. Although the Leica X2 may not be the best low light camera, here the Leica did a good job.
On my last day in Seattle I walked around Space needle and was completely unprepared that I would see this great exhibition, Garden of Glass. There have been sculptures of flowers, trees and grass made from colored glass, artfully designed and presented in breathtakingly way. The artist’s name is Dale Chihuly.
The nice town of Grado lies on a peninsula and is surrounded by the Adriatic sea. From some points, as here on the roof of a hotel, you can see the tails of the alps on the horizon. It’s a very relaxed atmosphere and a recommendation if you like to take some days off.
Where to stay in Seattle? I can recommend the W Hotel, very good location, friendly personnel and nice rooms. Vis-a-vis you have a Starbucks, a bus station is in front of the hotel. They have a water dispenser with lemons and oranges, and it’s for free 🙂 .. and a nice lobby with a bar 🙂
