One of the first ever images I saw of Vienna was off a postcard featuring the stunning Karlskirche., but it wasn’t only the church itself which made me go all wide eyed. Mostly, it was also the setting. In front of the church was a glimmering pool of blue water, with a sinuous sculpture seemingly [...]

Choose a street and look around you. Then turn a corner and discover something new. I am by no means an expert in architecture, but from the little I know I found Vienna a truly fascinating place, with lines, curves, steeples and domes spanning the centuries, and, at least in the city centre, restored and [...]

The sky was grey, colourless. Most trees had long shed their leaves, the shrubs shrivelled and lost their green.  Little colour was left apart from the slightly tired-looking lawn, but it was not hard to image how magnificent the Schloss Schonbrunn’s gardens would look come Spring and Summer, mainly because a few months earlier, Kristina [...]

Every trip we take automatically becomes associated with something. For me, Seoul conjures up images of spicy food and super-trendy youths. Budapest makes me think of cold, Art Nouveau, and more cold. Did I mentioned the cold? Bali reminds me of pools, and crashing waves, and bad food. And Vienna will, unfortunately, forever be associated [...]

I absolutely love the whole city experience, and my most treasured and memorable travel moments are inevitably linked to urban spaces; standing at the top of Mount Namsan and watching glimmering Seoul below me, dining at a Hungarian restaurant in London with my partner and getting tipsy on a single glass of red wine, walking [...]