Reflections

 Piran, the dream city

Sent by Maruša in Begunje, Slovenia

Distance: 1,936 km

Travel time: 18 days

Piran is a town in southwestern Slovenia on the Gulf of Piran on the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the three major towns of Slovenian Istria. The town has much medieval architecture, with narrow streets and compact houses. Piran is the administrative centre of the local area and one of Slovenia's major tourist attractions.

 Vitsebsk. St. Assumption Cathedral on the  mouth of river Vitba

Sent by Olesia in Navapolatsk, Belarus

Distance: 879 km

Travel time: 9 days

Vitebsk or Vitsebsk is a city in Belarus and the capital of the Vitebsk Region. Artist Marc Chagall was born in Vitsebsk in 1887.

Amsterdam Canals

Sent by Kin&John in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Distance: 1,525 km

Travel time: 5 days

Amsterdam has more than one hundred kilometers of canals, about 90 islands and 1,500 bridges.  Alongside the main canals are 1550 monumental buildings. The 17th-century canal ring area were placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2010 contributing to Amsterdam's fame as the "Venice of the North"