Travel around the World

A Weekend to relax in Lower Saxony   After moving to Freiburg, I didn't have time to go back to Lower Saxony that often, so I was super happy to enjoy a long weekend with my best friend in Hanover. Since he had to work the Friday, I just started to explore the city - visiting the places, I haven't been for a while or haven't been at all - like the Buddhist pagoda. At first, I went to the Maschsee - an artificial lake situated in the South of the city centre of Hanover and a paradise for relaxing in the sun, having a coffee and a sandwich for breakfast. The name of the lake Maschsee stems from the so-called " Leinemarsch ", which means a kind of swamp, because the area, where the lake was built, was a deep-lying floodplain of the Leine river.      I enjoyed quite a long time around the lake, before I decided to walk to the area of the amazing and beautiful New Town Hall , a magnificient castle-like building, built between 1901 an 1913 in an electic style. The heigh...

  Basel - A Swiss City Trip Part II   In February, I wanted to attend a concert of Bring Me the Horizon and A Day to Remember in Basel. Since I've never been to Basel before, I wanted to combine it with a sightseeing trip. At the end, the concert was postponed to next year and I was heavily thinking, if I still should go to Basel or not and luckily, I went there, having a great time. Since I already had a day of vacations on a Friday, I took the chance to take an early train to Basel to have enough time to explore the city.      Basel, which was ranked among the ten cities with highest quality of life in the world in 2019, showed up with many beautiful areas to relax on the banks of the Rhine, but also around the landmark of the city, the Basel Minster . The original Catholic cathedral was built in a Romanesque and Gothic style and it characterizes the cityscape with its red sandstone architecture and colorful roof tiles, its two slim towers and the cross-shaped...