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Enjoy a bit of heat again on a short trip in Europe! And learning to do nothing in Sicily, chugging across Lake Maggiore or bargaining in Barcelona …
Sicily: Learning to do nothing between old walls
Three streets, a medieval courtyard piazza, a bar, a bakery and a few guesthouses. With a great view over the Gulf of Castellammare – there is nothing more in Scopello. And you do not need more than that for relaxing days on By doing Dwelling-village in the north-west lives the serenity , A dog yawns under an oleander bush, two neighbors talk from window to window, old signori sit on folding chairs in front of the house, look at the visitors.
Judith Liere
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Pensione Tranchina. Simple rooms with bath, some with balcony and sea view. For breakfast fig jam and cheese, in the evening Sicilian home cooking, then the fire crackles in the fireplace (Via A. Diaz, 7, I – 396573 Scopello, Tel. () / 10 () / 11 11, www.pensionetranchina.com ).
Lago Maggiore: Lake View and Grandezza
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At the lake promenade we bask in the still powerful rays and admire the snow-covered summit of the 59 meters high Monte Rosa. stroll and sit on a cappuccino outside. On polished elegance, however, famous places on the Swiss west bank. For example, if you stroll along the promenade of Ascona, you can easily dream into one of the sailboats on the blue-green shimmering lake or into one of the old villas. 7524647
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Albergo Pironi. Palazzo with frescoes on the walls and vaulted ceilings, small country-style rooms (I – 648 Canobbio, Via Marconi (), Tel. () 39 / 05 () / 706 , 52593933 www.pironihotel.it
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Madeira: get color
© iStockphoto / Thinkstock like ice cream and tastes of wild, sun-sweet strawberries – who sucks the meat of a cherimoya, feels the summer on the tongue. The fruit is harvested on Madeira in winter. But what does winter mean on the Atlantic island, which is closer to Morocco than to Portugal and has a subtropical climate in its south? Here the colors never go out of nature. On the coast, Levkoje and Greater Adderhead paint purple swabs, in the mountains gorse produces bright yellow, strong red paint hibiscus and azaleas, delicate blue and pink the hydrangeas. We see and smell them on walks through the island's capital Funchal and on walks, for example along the Levada do Norte, which leads past private gardens and through forests. Even more intense, we breathe the air in the “Jardim Botânico” above Funchal, where we sit on a park bench as in the amphitheater. Soft light, a stage of flowers and bushes, metallic blue shimmering sea as a backdrop. Palm leaves fanning warm air, birds sing. Nothing that could lure us away from this box seat now. 28822 10203182
Stay overnight Papagaio Verde. As private as the surrounding area, a residential area in the west Funchal, is also the hotel. Modern house, sunny, terrace with sea views (97 – 648 Funchal, Travessa do Papagaio Verde, 012, Tel. 003 () / 291 / 77 () 00, 10203182 www.casadopapagaio.com ).
Nice: Increasing Savoir-Vivre
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run down. Out! In the Mediterranean light, in the colors, the sun, the life! Colors, that's in Nice: pigeon-blue shutters on saffron-yellow facades, emerald green on ocher and orange cream. I leave the station behind me, meander through cheerful, sophisticated streets to the arcades of the Place Masséna, finally I rummage through the alleyways of the old town. Until the market Cours Saleya with its flowers and delicacies opens in front of me. I buy black olives under a red striped awning, then go up the steps to the castle hill, in the Parc du Château on the rooftops of Nice. Deep below me the glittering blue sea carries white sails, I want to open my arms and fly. Under the palm tree in the grass, it's nice too, I put olives in my mouth, breathe the scent of the cypress: Adieu, summer, see you next year! 10203196
Susanne Arndt
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Hotel Durante. Nice and quiet rooms around a well-kept courtyard full of palm trees, lemons, oranges, olives and Strelitzia. At the station (16 Avenue Durante, Tel. (*) (*) / 493 / 88 () (, 51806002 www.hotel-durante.com ).
Algarve: Where the wind breaks
Their clatter echoes over the whitewashed, interlaced cube houses of Olhao, over flat roofs with chimneys like mini-minarets, through a network of narrow streets. In the street cafes sit fishermen and housewives, students and business people. We also took off our jackets and put on the sunglasses. And that after only two and a half hours flight! The eastern part of the Algarve, stretching from Faro to the Spanish border, is called Sotavento. Translated: Where the wind takes a break. The primal forces rage less here than in the west of the Algarve with its spectacular cliffs. Here the coastline is shallow, a diverging line of salt marshes, lagoons, creeks, dunes, long sandy beaches and offshore islands. In a protected lagoon, wading birds stagger, royal fishermen flutter by. No hype, little installed. And romantic when the evening sun in the elegant Mauren town of Tavira makes the stuccoed patrician houses glow in the sluggish river.
Nicole Schmidt
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Vila Monte. The former estate with old trees is hidden in the hills of the Sotavento Natural Park near Olhaõ. 49 elegant rooms in guesthouses. Spa, three pools, good restaurant, golf academy with three-hole course (Sitio de Calios, Moncarapacho, tel. 05 51 / 291 12, 38450 www.vilamonte.de ).
Santorini: The Once-in-Life-Panorama
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Is that about …? No! No snow! Even if it looks remotely while the ferry is heading for Santorini: the icing sugar canopy on top of the island – these are Santorini's houses. Small, cubist cuboid, bright white, freshly whitewashed for the first tourists of the year, in two big bales, one on the right, one on the left: the two towns on the island.
Fira is the bigger one. We want to Oia. To the hotel “Chelidonia”. On our terrace. There are not too many places in the world that are even more beautiful in reality than on postcards. Santorini can do it. And that's why the island is already working in very small doses. Apart from the fact that now all shops are closed in Oia except for the bakery and the grocery store, it is incredibly difficult for the guest in “Chelidonia” to leave his terrace – and thus this once-in-a-lifetime panorama, steeply down into the Sea and beyond for all eternity. One sits, drinks a coffee, drinks a drink of water, drinks a wine, sits and watches as time passes. And feel something in the stomach, something small, silvery, hit a lucky balance.
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Chelidonia. Apartment hotel in the center, ten charming studios with terrace (Oia, Tel. (*) 30 / 12 () / 10, Fax 75 (*), 35180 www.chelidonia.com
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Barcelona: Shopping at the end of sale
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Is that about …? No! No snow! Even if it looks remotely while the ferry is heading for Santorini: the icing sugar canopy on top of the island – these are Santorini's houses. Small, cubist cuboid, bright white, freshly whitewashed for the first tourists of the year, in two big bales, one on the right, one on the left: the two towns on the island.
Fira is the bigger one. We want to Oia. To the hotel “Chelidonia”. On our terrace. There are not too many places in the world that are even more beautiful in reality than on postcards. Santorini can do it. And that's why the island is already working in very small doses. Apart from the fact that now all shops are closed in Oia except for the bakery and the grocery store, it is incredibly difficult for the guest in “Chelidonia” to leave his terrace – and thus this once-in-a-lifetime panorama, steeply down into the Sea and beyond for all eternity. One sits, drinks a coffee, drinks a drink of water, drinks a wine, sits and watches as time passes. And feel something in the stomach, something small, silvery, hit a lucky balance.
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Chelidonia. Apartment hotel in the center, ten charming studios with terrace (Oia, Tel. (*) 30 / 12 () / 10, Fax 75 (*), 35180 www.chelidonia.com
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Barcelona: Shopping at the end of sale
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no better place than between the trees and stalls on Boulevard Les Rambles. Now the city belongs to the locals, now you can pretend to be a stranger as if you count them. And then into the crowd around the shopping street Passeig de Gràcia At each corner there are branches of the Spanish brands Zara, Mango, Women's Secret and the shoe chain Vogue. One could give a detour to the department store colossus El Corte Inglés on the Plaça de Catalunya, if the view from the roof terrace would not be terrific. Unfortunately, in the Art Nouveau market hall “Boqueria” it is over with the feeling of being (at least) at home: Only those who live in Barcelona can cook something from the huge offer of eggplant to zander at home. One of us buys ham and cheese – and packs everything suitable for traveling. 922
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Hotel Cram. Unobtrusive designed rooms, large beds (Carrer D'Aribau (*), in the district of Eixamp le, 228 Barcelona, Tel.
/ 93 / 216 (), 08011 www.hotelcram.com ).
Cyprus: View the cultural section
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Banana trees like no cold. Around Paphos, they thrive magnificently. Envelop a small town without high-rise buildings, half of which seems to be made up of history – and therefore interesting outside the bathing season. There is, for example, a British lighthouse over a Roman theater. And ancient mosaics that tell of love and wine. Egyptian royal tombs strewn in flower meadows, or early Christian columns between palm trees. Unlike many places in Cyprus, Paphos, deep in the mild west, does not hibernate at all. A pelican sways up and down in front of the fish restaurants at the harbor, he does so in front of an audience, and who in the upper town drinks his mocha under the domes of the former Turkish hamam, sits in the middle of the locals.
Klaus Bötig
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Hotel Dionysos Central. Relatively close to the sea and centrally located, pleasant in the off season, otherwise very busy. Simple Room, Small Unheated Pool (1, Dionysos Street, 191 Paphos, in the center, Tel. () 57 / 26 / (*) (*, 86098 www.dionysoshotelpaphos .com ).
Tenerife: Above the Clouds
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Tinka Dippel Property from the (*). Century, in the middle of a banana plantation near Garachico, with tennis court, pool, patio with plants and sofas (Finca Malpaís El Guincho, ES – 059683 Garachico, Tenerife, Tel. () () / 922 / (*), 922 www.hotelpatio.co Bella
To the amazement: the flower island in the flowering of flowers
Nice: Sea, palm trees, great city
Romantic: The moorish town of Tavira is located on the River Gilão
Elegant: the alleys of the city
Historic: Church of Panagia Chrysopolitissa at Paphos
Majestic: the Teide, Spain's highest mountain
