SICILY - unesco heritage city of MODICA

our next stop after ragusa was the baroque city of modica - the next unesco heritage site in eastern sicily. enjoy few pictures 😄

crazy mirror :-)

marina di modica

more pictures here.
the overview blog post about all our stops in sicily here.

oranienbaum-wörlitz /// unesco heritage site

the unesco heritage site castle wörlitz park (in the sachsen-anhalt part of eastern germany) was unfortunately just a short break on our way home to munich from lodz, poznan, tuczno, dziwnow at the baltic sea, kamien pomorski,  ...

why so short? well, we have been really tired after that much travelling and january is not a perfect time to visit any gardens in europe, is it? it was too late and too dark, we have been hungry and our food in one of the very few open restaurants (an asian bistro) was really bad, if you asked me => OMG

castle oranienbaum

 not recommended, if you asked me ... 

good-bye oranienbaum. i hope we will come back in summer time again

good-bye my perfect end of and 2018, let's work for a nice 2019, too :-)

find 4 or 5 more pictures here
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vilnius - lithuania

i liked vilnius (polish: wilno), the capital and biggest city of lithuania, a lot. why do i provide the polish name of vilnius here? well, the city was an important part of polish-lithuanian-commonwealth in the middle ages. even before the WW II where poles the biggest ethnic group (e.g. in 1931 above 65%) followed by jews and russians, the lithuanians were really rare at that time.

source wikipedia

and i really liked the nice old houses, narrow streets, arches, churches, palaces, bars, arts in the streets and even the many (baltic sea) amber shops in its old town, which is an unesco heritage site. because there was not everything restored and we have often seen still destroyed facades and crumbling rendering (brökelnder putz) on many houses not far away from the very city center, it seemed to be so authentic for me. maybe therefore remembered me vilnius a little bit on my natal kosice in eastern slovakia :-).

enjoy few pictures:

river neris

two of us

one of the many orthodox churches

arts or just craziness?

festival of polish folk music at one of the the main old city squares: there are still many, many poles in living in lithuania, you know? i will look for the 'combine harverster' song of the lithuanian polish ensemble 'kapela wilenska' in polish language

kapela wilenska - a ja jade na kombajnie

the best of all wives :-)

good-bye, vilnius

more pictures are here.

the diary of our whole holiday journey is here.

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