Breakfast at Figar – update

I am not really sure how to categorize Figar. It’s not a coffeehouse, because it’s definitely lacking comfort, but it’s…

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The doors of Orkney

The doors of Orkney all look a little bit similar. Sturdy wooden doors without any adornments, and they all come…

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Breakfast at Café Himmelblau

Café Himmelblau opens on Saturday at 8m and doesn’t take any reservations on that day. I figured arriving at 9am…

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Books

Holding Onto Forever (The Beaumont Series: Next Generation Book 1) by Heidi McLaughlin: If you have the impressions that this…

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Breakfast at Café Schopenhauer

The Café Schopenhauer is your typical Viennese coffeehouse and looks exactly what one expects from a coffeehouse in Vienna. Except…

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The best places to grab some food on Orkney

When you live in a big city, you don’t even know how blessed you are. Until you come to Orkney,…

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The Broch of Gurness and searching for Northern Lights

I guess most of Mainland was by now crossed off our must-see list. From Kirkwall, to Skara Brae, the Brough…

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Skaill beach walking on Orkney

While walking through the prehistoric Neolithic village of Skara Brae I read in my guide book that there was a…

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Passione-Da Ferdinando

The 13th district of Vienna is rather a culinary desert. Or at least it was while I lived there. Come…

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