Category: Secret Guide

STORMY SEPTEMBER, A PUBLIC ORGY & OTHER GREEK ISLAND SURPRISES

Mykonos is the perfect Greek Island gateway, or so says the brochure. My wife and I went there with another couple to celebrate our joint 10^th marriage anniversary. Spending four days on the small Aegean Island, we found a bit of what we looked for and a lot of what we didn’t. Some of it, I must admit, was quite memorable. Was it something worth remembering? You’ll be the judge of that. All I can say is that the following year we decided to re-celebrate our 10^th anniversary, only this time in Tuscany.

So, Without further due, here are four Mykonos lessons,
learned the hard way…

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TWO PLACES TO BE ALONE IN TOKYO

It’s objectively hard to be alone in the world’s most populous city. Hard, but not impossible. Tokyo is one crazy gigantic place. And by crazy, I don’t mean out-of-control (Phnom Penh takes that title with ease), but rather a place working according to rules only a local would understand.
I was once told that the cheapest ticket to Mars is a flight voucher to Tokyo. Don’t get me wrong, I love that city. I really do. I also love the Japanese, in the same sort of way one loves 3D Anime/Manga. They’re a bit real, but not really.

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A QUICK GUIDE TO CRAFT REALITY-BUSTING PICTURES 

A beautiful ancient grand temple shrouded in mystery and lost in time. Lost to all but a single young Buddhist monk and yours truly who just “happened” to discover it all by mistake.

Bullshit!
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7 TIPS FOR DOING TYROL REALLY FAST plus 7 AMAZING ROADS YOU SHOULDN’T MISS

 “The hills are alive with the sound of music”.

In our case, it’s a live concerto for six cylinders and collection of some of the loudest exhaust music modern EU regulations allow. As we race our Boxters and supercharged F-Types from one bend to the other, the symphony that echoes from the surrounding mountains is as grand as that old Disney classic.

Continue reading “The complete driver’s guide to the Austrian Alps”

A GUEST COLUMN BY RONI STERN

Living in Estonia for the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with the
Scandinavian countries on the other side of the Baltic sea, and particularly
Norway. So one day I packed up the car, grabbed the girlfriend and went on a journey north.
I’m writing this to share some lessons learned through my travels to Norway. Tips on how to travel, where to go, and how to do so without going bankrupt. In case you didn’t know, Norway is one of the most expensive countries in the world.
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7 REALLY BAD PLACES IN THE WORLD’S WORST CITY

No reliable electricity, no sanitation, no transportation infrastructure, no plumbing, no urban planning (ha, ha, that’s a good one), no running water, no hygiene, no emission controls, no building codes, no hope. You may think we’re describing some godforsaken shantytown in war-torn Africa. But we’re not. This city happens to be the Capital of a peaceful, well-known Asian nation.
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