West Europe

West Europe consists mainly of the Scandinavian countries, Ireland & UK, Benelux, Iberian countries, Italy and it’s microstates, Greece, France and the western part of central Europe. The living standard is higher as in the eastern countries. Connect cities by train or car and see another culture every day. Without any borders left one can freely hop around from country to country!

On the different country destination pages I share my travel experiences of the countries in West Europe:

France
Netherlands
Portugal
all other West European countries

GERMANY – Berlin (2013.02.16)

February 2, 2013 Chris W. Comments Off

A short trip to Berlin, capital of Germany. In the end, we ended up with only 2 nights and not 5 as one of us got ill. As its only a short drive from the Netherlands we just drove back. UNESCO World Heritage Sites visited: none [read more]

UNITED KINGDOM – A 3 day business trip in London, what can you do?

September 28, 2012 Chris W. Comments Off

The United Kingdom has never been high on my bucket list but a 3 day business trip brought me to London. I had not much time but did two afternoon walks around the main city center places. I had no time to enter any museum, [read more]

SWEDEN – A 5 day city trip Stockholm, the Venice of the north

July 19, 2012 Chris W. Comments Off

A leisure only trip to two more capitals of Europe. Planned in a way to see the most important, if not all, sights in both capitals. First stop city trip Stockholm, Sweden where the first days are spent. From there a detour to Riga, Latvia to check [read more]

GREECE – A week in and around Athens; history everywhere!

April 28, 2012 Chris W. Comments Off

A week holiday with the family to Athens, capital of Greece. So much history in this city you cannot imagine. We explored Athens in detail (the amount of days is enough, get a map at the tourist office and just walk the whole city, below it was split [read more]

LUXEMBOURG – A long weekend city trip to Luxembourg City

February 27, 2012 Chris W. Comments Off

A short holiday family city trip to Luxembourg City. Luxembourg city is a UNESCO World Heritage site with lots of interesting places to see. A small country part of the Benelux and an easy destination from many parts in Europe. Day 1 – Arrival We [read more]

SPAIN – Five days in Madrid, the capital of Spain

October 19, 2011 Chris W. Comments Off

Family city trip to check out Madrid; capital of Spain with something like 3.5 million people. Lots of history, old buildings and culture. We only had to get used to the late dinners in Spain, starting 10PM even 11PM! For us from Holland very very [read more]

SWITZERLAND – Arosa, a peacefull town tucked away in the Swiss Alps

July 25, 2011 Chris W. Comments Off

This is the second part of our trip where we first visited Vaduz in Liechtenstein and Arosa in the Swiss Alps for a few days for leisure. Leisure in Arosa Swiss Alps A great mountain village to come to peace and rest. We spend here the [read more]

LIECHTENSTEIN – A tiny country tucked away in the Alps between Swiss and Austria

July 25, 2011 Chris W. Comments Off

A trip to Liechtenstein (day 1 through 3) and after to Arosa (Swiss) to visit some friends for leisure only. Day 1 – Netherlands to Liechtenstein by car This took us the whole day! But, the autobahn in Germany really goes quick at 240 km/h! [read more]

AUSTRIA – 4 days in Vienna, city of music & dreams

June 6, 2011 Chris W. Comments Off

Family city trip to the capital of Austria, Vienna. Lets do a small history lesson 🙂 Vienna started as a Roman military post in 15 BC called Vindobona and it got city rights in 1221 with a city wall after which it became quickly a [read more]

IRELAND – 5-day road trip itinerary to all the highlights

July 29, 2010 Chris W. Comments Off

Roadtrip through Ireland. On purpose we did not visit Dublin so that later we do a city trip to Dublin. These 4.5 days driving through Ireland are enough to see all major sights and explore them; we like to see really all and in a [read more]