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Featured Walk: Singapore by happywhale

Walk created by: happywhale
Photograph by: electrolight
Singapore (Chinese: 新加坡, Xīnjiāpō; Malay: Singapura; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர், Cingkappūr), officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island city-state located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, lying 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia’s Riau Islands. At [...]

Bluewalkers at Düsseldorf

Unlike other buzzing German cities like Berlin and Munich, Düsseldorf is surprisingly modest.
Touted as Germany’s city of fashion. Indeed.
Luxury and chic brands line the street of Königsallee, the ‘dream’ shopping street in Düsseldorf. Being a typical shopaholic, what charms me, ironically, is the strong culture in cycling as part of the the green movement. Bluewalkers, [...]

Trip to Norway

Its been a while since Bluewalks has set in motion for some journey, so for the spring and summer we set ourselves on a quest to Norway, in particularly Bergen and its Fjords.
We took the train from Stockholm in Sweden, towards Oslo and then take another local train towards Bergen. The journey will basically [...]

5 country tour of Europe

Ok, throughout the month, we have been visiting many countries and trying out bluewalks at several places. We have visited Berlin, Prague, Munich, Salzburg, Zurich, Malmo, Stromstad, and Stockholm….all by train!
It was a low cost way of traveling them all in a very short perioud of time. bluewalks has been very useful to use…atleast [...]

The thrills of April

Bluewalks are finally preparing for its first expedition to Europe. We will be trying the Eurorail pass and the interrail passes by traveling to 5 different countries in Europe purely by train and foot to see how feasible this is, how fun it can be, how adventurous this can get, and how far off [...]

a trip to Strömstad

This week, a member of bluewalks is down to strömstad, which is basically 3 hours by train north of Göteborg, Sweden. It is very scenic and very nice and is one of the main destinations for Norwegians as this town is very close to Oslo (geographically). Strömstad is probably one of the top [...]

To Austria

This week, we take ourselves to explore Austria. Wow, it was a really great country. OUr experiences however tells us several things. Although it was a very short trip (only 2 – 3 days), the visit to Salzburg, vienna, and Innsbruk was great. It is however recommended to go in spring [...]