WHEN TO GO
WEATHER
Since it is not a very large country, the climatology is extrapolable throughout Iceland: Continue reading “ICELAND: WHEN TO GO, TRAVEL TIPS, HEALTH AND DANGERS”
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THINGS AND FACTS THAT WERE TRUE IN CHINA AND NO LONGER ARE (OR AT LEAST NOT THAT MUCH)
Almost any country has its more or less black legends. Without mentioning the stereotypes, that “in Spain it is always warm” or that “in Thailand they put drugs in your suitcase” is something that everyone has ever told us; it is true that legends usually have a basis of reality, either because what happened was once isolated time and was generalized later, or because it was something that used to happen and stopped doing it. If there is a country that takes the cake in terms of legends, that is China, and it is for the second reason: there are many things that until recently were true and no longer are, or at least, are not so much as before. Continue reading “THINGS AND FACTS THAT WERE TRUE IN CHINA AND NO LONGER ARE (OR AT LEAST NOT THAT MUCH)”
TOURIST VISA FOR CHINA
The information in this article is subject to rapid change, requirements vary in months or a few years time and according to the applicant’s nationality. These are the procedures to obtain it as of July 2018 for citizens of 51 countries: Continue reading “TOURIST VISA FOR CHINA”
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (MET) AND CLOISTERS, NEW YORK CITY
Although we usually refer to the main building, it is a set of 3 museums, the first being one of the most popular in the city and one of the most important in the world. Continue reading “METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (MET) AND CLOISTERS, NEW YORK CITY”
BRONX ZOO
Just in New York City there are 4 zoos, one in Queens, another in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, another in Central Park, and one in the Bronx, the oldest and largest in North America, Continue reading “BRONX ZOO”
DRACH CAVES
Large and beautiful caves are in many places, and when you have seen several, you become a little tired of the stalactite and the stalagmite and the millions of years that take time they touch, you want to see something that differentiates that cave from the others, and the Drach have stalactites that, although they are not unique, are infrequent and very original. Continue reading “DRACH CAVES”
PALATINO AND ROMAN FORUM
If the Colosseum is one of the great architectural works of humanity that has reached our days, the Forum, which once was the Continue reading “PALATINO AND ROMAN FORUM”
ATOMIUM, BRUSSELS
Updated January 19, 2019
Arguable: whether it is beautiful or dreadful. Questionless: it is very original, so much that it has become the symbol of Belgium. My opinion is that it is worth seeing it on the outside, but not the inside.
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