This was the winter a year ago. I was in Trenčín which is a city in western Slovakia. The city is dominated by a castle - the third-largest castle in Slovakia. The white blanket of snow and frozen icicles gave fairytale magic to the castle....

One of the ingredients used in our recipe are sprouts. It is like magic when a perfect miniature version of the grown plant sprouts from such a very tiny seed. Sprouting is the practice of germinating seeds to be eaten raw. Sprouts are rich in...

Also, Vienna has its Walk of Fame! But you will not find there any prints of Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, the famous holder of two Oscars. He got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The stars on the walk in Vienna are not...

Adriana Macháčová is a successful contemporary Slovak writer. We apologize but the interview is in Slovak only.

Skjálfandi bay with the small town of Húsavík belongs to the most picturesque places on Iceland. The slim tower of the wooden church Húsavíkurkirkja in Art Nouveau style dominates above small houses. The walls of those houses are covered with colourfully painted corrugated iron. On...

Although white wine is used in our recipe, Bulgaria is famous for its red wines. They say that all Bulgarian songs praise red wine except one. In that song, they sing: "Oh, white wine, why are you not red…?“ About Mavrud wine The wine was...

It is already difficult to find a real winter in Europe. Do you know in which Austrian ski resort you can be almost a hundred per cent sure that it will snow there? It is Obertauern in the federal state of Salzburg. People who live...

This is my favorite picture from our visit to Iceland. The most known glacial lagoon – Jökulsárlón - in southeastern Iceland. It is a part of Vatnajökull National Park. The estimated age of Vatnajökull glacier is 1000 – 1500 years. Every year a piece with...

PF 2016: Keep smiling! Things around you will smile too! I & Z

Merry Christmas to all friends of Travelpotpourri! Zita and Ingrid

Have you baked for Christmas already? I think that Linzer cookies are not missing on any Christmas table not only in Slovakia but in all Central European Countries. When I was a child, a parcel came to us before Christmas. It was full of Linzer...

We are living in a hasty time. I am angry when already they start to sell Christmas decorations at the beginning of October as if somebody would like to make our lives even faster… But I know a place where they have Christmas all year...