Messy, busy, mangled, cheap, friendly and relaxed bar in Belleville. Unchanged for years, just layered with tags, stickers, laquered beer spillage and cigarette ash; but bright and light at the same time.

Offering the best loaf of bread in the city, baker/owner Andrés is a Mérida native who learned his craft from a Polish baker in Vietnam. Loaves of crusty Sourdough, Wheat, and Rye are offered alongside local-style pastries like Concha and Classic French croissants. The Huevos Rancheros from their breakfast menu, ladled with a delicate tomato sauce, is the most refined of its kind.

There are many Indonesian restaurants in The Hague, but this is one of my favorites. Only 3 tables. Mainly take away food. Also very kind staff.

Cute place to listen to jazz music and chill

Monkey Bar is the first place I discovered in Florence. In this small pub I found myself comforted with its dive bar feel. Lorenzo and Freddy, the bar tenders, greet their patrons with a kiss on each cheek, a sarcastic comment and cheap drinks. I have grown to love this small place; its welcoming atmosphere brings me instantly home in a city constantly bustling with mainstream tourism.

Parque Lage is a mansion from the 19th century, located in the middle of a luxuriant and refreshing park. It has become today a school of art, where exhibitions are often held, and also hosts a cafe and restaurant.

Best cocktails in town

Worker-owned, hole in the wall bakery worth waiting in line for.

The Vajda Lajos Studio is a unique art gallery in the down town. The busiest cult space of the local artist community with roots to the Hungarian underground movement.

A great walk down an old abandoned rail way from Finsbury Park to Highgate. Most of the original platforms are sill remaining so its an interesting place to explore...

The workshops at the Gem Palace are a true fascination to me. Here you can witness the processes from rough stones being delivered to the final steps of cutting, faceting and polishing as well as setting and making. But what I admire truly is the shapes they can create sometimes losing up to 70% of a stone to create a dome for a pair of earrings.

This thermal bath is located a bit outside of vienna but you can find a train to get there and its well worth it. there is 5 different basins, the one pictured being called forest-basin. There is no chlorid in any of them, the architechture of the entrance and the grand basin is amazing and you can see a most peculiar rest of a fomally rich culture of bathing traditions: cabins, that are permanently rent to guests that spend most of their summer there within the bath’s area. While you swim and dry you will walk by a family having their lunch in one of these 25 square meter universes, or watch men playing cards on the balconies, before taking another swim. The pools are located on different niveaus and you will have to find your way through a pretty little forest to reach some of them.