Don’t you know much about Romania beyond Dracula? Well, then it’s time to visit my native wonderful country. I can tell you, you are gonna fall in love with its fairytale landscapes, all the small villages stuck in the nostalgic times, its marvelous painted monasteries, fortified churches, and the national obsession for the delicious stuffed grape leaves, sarmale, and mamaliga (a porridge made out of maize flour). Read more
I’ve been to Morocco. So what? So I wanna go back there for a trip with a backpack, no child and a list of Moroccan towns. At the beginning of her teenage period, my child suddenly became more interested in the swimming pool and less in traveling all day long from one city to another. As the hotel where we stayed had a huge swimming pool, I hardly convinced her to make trips, and even at some point, she abandoned me altogether. Read more
Waking up at 5 in the morning is not my hobby at all. Not even at 7. I’m not a morning person and that’s it! I hardly wake up at 7.30 in my everyday life. However, during all the time spent in Gambia I woke up only at 5 and 7 a.m. without any trouble (the thirst for seeing new places and things! in addition, when it comes to travel the world, I was born ready to go). Read more
In the 13th century, on the Gambian territory of our days were living the tribes Wolof, Fulani and Malinke. In 1455, Portuguese explorers discovered the Gambia River, and later, in the 17th century, British traders settled in these territories. Currently, Gambia is a mixture of tribes, each speaking its own language: the majority tribe is Mandinka (38% – this tribe founded the empire of Mali as well), Fula (21%), Wolof (18%), Jola (4, 5%) – the current president (who just lost the elections from December 2016) belongs to this tribe and other smaller tribes. Read more
Already for a couple of years, I was thinking of a New Year night in a bath suit, but I wanted to stay at home for Christmas, so there were only eight days left from my daughter’s winter holiday to spend it somewhere where the sun was shining, but still not too far away, the limit was not farther than six hours flying. This was the main criterion when I started to look for a warm land in December. Read more
I left to the chosen destination not very well informed. I had a busy period before the holiday and too less time to gather some proper information as I normally do before visiting a new country. Cape Verde was actually the second option, the first one being The Gambia, which had no vacancies for that period.
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