| Connoisseur City Guide TALLINN plus HIT LIST |
| Wednesday, 11 August 2010 14:43 |
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| If You ever decide to come to Tallinn,  to visit the Old Town and all the endless sights around, You’ll find this review useful. Tallinn is a small Baltic city with strong ties to Finland . It is a City of contrasts essentially a medieval city, Talli nn (known his torically as Reval) has gathered legends of and around itself. Even the name of the City has been changed during the centuries.
Beyond the city there is much to explore and all within a very compact country, only only 230 km (140 miles) from north to south.
The name derives from Taani Linn (Danish fortress) which was mainly used during the late medieval age. Even older is the German name for Tallinn, Reval, which again derives from the name for the province of Rävala.
Before that, the place - at that time not yet a town - was known as Lindanise or in Russian as Kolyvan respectively.
The medieval walled town is a must-see, and is normally teeming with Ryanair,Easyjet and Finnish tourists….. but what if you've already seen it?
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| Connoisseur’s Guide to Riga |
| Monday, 28 June 2010 10:42 |
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|  INTRODUCTION
Someone once described Riga as "the Window of the Baltic." It is certainly a very pleasant window and much may be seen from it. Whatever the time of the year, it will be Riga – the largest Baltic city, which offers the most… The city, often referred to as the "Paris of the North", is well-known for its architectural and cultural values and rapidly developing economics.
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| An Introduction to the city of Vienna |
| Thursday, 20 May 2010 10:34 |
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 Vienna, also described as Europe's cultural capital, is a metropolis with unique charm, vibrancy and flair. It boasts outstanding infrastructure, is clean and safe, and has all the inspiration that you could wish for in order to discover this wonderful part of Europe. Vienna, the capital of Austria, 2 million inhabitants, is situated on the banks of the Danube. The influx of visitors from all over the world has made Vienna the most popular urban tourist destination in Austria.
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| Singapore - An Island of Contradictions |
| Monday, 17 May 2010 11:34 |
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|  Singapore is a monument to multiculturalism, mixing gleaming high-rises and colonial relics with their Asian charm.
Singapore is unusual but perhaps better, for the strict behaviour codes and norms actually enforced. Let us fill You in: fines for jaywalking, spitting, chewing gum, littering, urinating in a public place. Five hundred dollars is the current penalty which can be imposed, so be on your best behaviour! It has been commented that “an innocent American straying through these parts could go through about four grand in five minutes”.
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| Sydney Overview |
| Friday, 14 May 2010 08:25 |
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 Sydney Australia a city of nearly four and a half million people was voted world’s best city in 2007 by magazine Condé Nast Traveller’s readers, beating New York and Paris. Sydney won out on the overall rating – performing very well on cleanliness, user friendliness and beauty. This is not surprising to locals who delight in their stunning ocean beaches, their waterways, surrounding bushland and climate.
Culturally they are well provided for – Sydney’s Opera House is a modern World Heritage site and is home to many local and overseas productions of opera, drama and music. After 35 years there is talk of refurbishing the Opera Hall, whilst another school of thought says it would be cheaper to build a new one at another location or adjacent.
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