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Unpretentious Melbourne: Australian Football Heartland of Australia

As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through fraud when explorer John Batman, an Australian who spoke in several aboriginal dialects, made a “deal” with aborigines to lease land on behalf of speculators. While offering the Aborigines any compensation at all was progressive in a colonial culture that preferred to simply run them [...]

Exciting Taipei: Capital of the Republic of China

After climbing 508 metres up the Taipei 101 tower, the highest structure in the world, it can be seen easily from anywhere in the city, one can look down on the genuine Taipei amidst all the modern buildings: temples, markets, the National Palace Museum and in between them, the many old streets and lanes where [...]

Beautiful Vilnius: City of Churches

The Lithuanian city of Vilnius radiates southern charm under the northern sun. Positioned in the natural amphitheatre of the surrounding Lithuanian hills, Vilnilus has a lot to offer Australian tourists besotted with classical architecture. Vilnius, which can look back on a thousand years of Lithuanian history, can boast one of the largest historical town centres in [...]

Beautiful Vienna: in the Heat of Europe

Located in the very heart of Europe, Vienna is both a bustling city and a city famous for its cafes, historic districts, lovely parks, elegant squares and romantic courtyards. Vienna means cafe culture, music and wine. Where else can one so happily spend all day sitting in a cafe, reading a magazine, sipping a Viennese [...]

Piazza San Marco - One of Venice’s Most Beautiful Squares

  One of the world’s most beautiful squares, Piazza San Marco (St. Mark’s Square) is the heart of Venice, a vast open space bordered by an orderly procession of arcades marching toward the fairy tale cupolas and marble lacework of the Basilica di San Marco. Perpetually packed by day with people and fluttering pigeons, it can be [...]