Tag Archives: Travel

Vegetable Ivory

Erstellt am Mai 7, 2020 von myuytips

     Finest Tagua Nut art. For many years we lived in Panama, there we came of course across the indigenous local artists. Just visiting one of the many souvenir markets or events could bring you in personal contact with … Weiterlesen →

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Collecting – Luggage Labels Uruguay 2

Erstellt am April 30, 2020 von myuytips

Hotel El Mirador, Colonia. Jose Sande, current Director of Hotel El Mirador, was born into a very humble family in La Piedra, a tiny village in Galicia, Spain. He was called Pepe. „Pepe“ was never an ordinary child, and his … Weiterlesen →

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Collecting – Luggage Labels Uruguay 1

Erstellt am April 18, 2020 von myuytips

LUGGAGE LABELS HAVE AN INTRICATE LANGUAGE. I wish they could also speak, as the story’s they could tell would be of far greater essence than what we see through them or what we can learn from researching hotel history. Some … Weiterlesen →

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Fake The Wine Connoisseur

Erstellt am März 26, 2020 von myuytips

My last article about the wine connoisseur has brought a lot of comments. Thanks for that. Anyway, I want to stick to the content, but I have to admit that some people’s knowledge of wine, or what they think they … Weiterlesen →

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Wine Connoisseur

Erstellt am März 17, 2020 von myuytips

„But where there is no wine, the charm of life dies“.  Anyone who can agree with this quotation from the Greek tragedian poet Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) is well on the way to become a wine connoisseur. Bust … Weiterlesen →

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Must See – Ulm 2

Erstellt am August 27, 2019 von myuytips

  Ulm on the Danube. To my opinion Ulm is a completely underestimated city. Lets start with some statistics: Ulm has the crookedest house (as listed in Guinness World Records, see part Fischer’s Quarters) and one of the narrowest (4.5m … Weiterlesen →

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Must See – Ulm 1

Erstellt am August 16, 2019 von myuytips

This „Must See“ building is widely unknown throughout the international tourist world. That’s why I like to draw your eye on that extreme interesting architecture. Of course one can go through the internet and find ample information about the Münster … Weiterlesen →

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Amazing Fruit Tree

Erstellt am März 19, 2019 von myuytips

Living in foreign country’s is a challenge and of course some instructive time too. During our years in Panama we had to learn a lot. A lot of unaccustomed culture, strange habits and lots of facts we never faced in … Weiterlesen →

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Sunset in Uruguay

Erstellt am Januar 22, 2019 von myuytips

My dear friend Jonathan asked in his periodical magazine MAGPIE  (you can order it through vozinglesa@gmail.com) his readers to send some pics of nice sunsets in Uruguay. The response was sadly almost zero and I could figure that he was … Weiterlesen →

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Spanish Cuisine – Update

Erstellt am November 23, 2018 von myuytips

Last week I posted the „Tapas Test“. Some of you wanted to hear more about some Tapas bars in Barcelona, where to go. I’ll try to answer this, but my last visit to Barcelona was about 3 years ago and … Weiterlesen →

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