We reserved the third day in Romanian Timisoara for the visiting of museums. (1) A museum that I guess no visitor to Timisoara will miss is the Museum of the Communist Consumer - Muzeul Consumatorului Comunist. I was lucky to meet its owner here, who...

The historical center of Timisoara is represented by three town squares, each unique, each of a different size and shape, and each with its own architectural gems. In the Day 1 Article, we walked around Victory Square as well as Liberty Square and then we...

Timisoara has been on my list of places I would like to visit for a long time. After all, it is called "Little Vienna", so it would certainly be interesting to find out why it is called like that. I consider it a special privilege...

The ruins of Rabí Castle dominate the town of Rábí (8 km from Sušice, Klatovy district) above the Otava River, 529 meters above sea level. It belongs to the most famous castles in Bohemia and is even mentioned in school history textbooks. It is the...

Velhartice Castle is another of the three castles that are worth seeing if you are planning a visit to the Pilsen (Plzeň) Region. It is located in the village of the same name (Klatovy district) on the left bank of the Ostružná River, 640 meters...

Kašperk Castle is one of three castles in the Pilsen (Plzeň) Region which form an imaginary triangle on the map (the city of Sušice is located in its center) and at the same time, take part in a joint cooperation project. I would recommend Kašperk...

In the previous article, we visited the Morava Field (Marchfeld) - we saw how asparagus grows and how it is harvested, cleaned and cooked. So it's time to try a recipe. Quiche with green asparagus We need: 300 g green asparagus 110 g butter 200...

Morava Field (Marchfeld) – the plain between the Danube and the lowest section of the Morava River (March in German) – is known from history. Two important battles took place here. First, in 1260, the army of the Czech king Přemysl Ottokar II defeated the...

"Oh, why can't he rather be a tailor?", the young Sisi has said this famous sentence several times after the fateful meeting in August 1853 in Bad Ischl, when Emperor Franz Joseph chose her as his future wife (instead of her older sister Helena). Fifteen-year-old...

For the first time in 2018, a part of Heidi Horten's private art collection was presented to the wider public in Vienna at the Leopold Museum of Modern Art in an exhibition entitled WOW! And indeed, the exhibition aroused a surprised "wow!" among many –...

Schönbrunn Palace is by far the most visited monument in Vienna. Before the pandemic, in 2019, it was visited by over 4 million visitors! I guess no one can miss the former summer residence of the Habsburg family when visiting the Austrian capital. It is...

You can notice that spring is coming to Vienna not only by the fact that ice cream makers open their shops after the winter break, but also by the Japanese cherry blossoms blooming in the city. When Austria celebrated its 1000th anniversary in 1996, Japan...