Reinhard Mey once sang "Above the clouds, freedom must be boundless". You don't go quite that high, but the balloon you climb into is 100 metres above sea level. You'll be higher than Big Ben in London. Just a few metres from Disneyland Paris - in the

In Melide on Lake Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino, you will find Swissminiatur, which has been in operation since 1959. On an area of around 14,000 square metres, you will find over 130 models of various interesting buildings in Switzerland on a

The first traces of a fair in Nancy date back to 1339. According to Henri Lepage, the Nancy Fair was already held in 1341, as Duke Raoul de Lorraine refers to it in a document from that time.

Since then, the fair has become one of the largest in the

Between the two cities of Wollongong and Sydney, just off Helensburgh on the east coast of the Australian continent lies Symbio Wildlife Park. Conveniently located at the top of the Illawarra escarpment, just minutes from Stanwell Park Beach, the

Within sight of the Sydney Opera House, Taronga Zoo Sydney is located directly on the Pacific Ocean in the northern part of Sydney. It first opened its doors as a city zoo in 1916 and has since grown to cover an area of 28ha. Well over 150 animal species

Since 2004, there has been an Alpine coaster over 600 metres long in the border area between the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. It is about 400 kilometres from Prague, and Ostrava is less than 70 kilometres to the northwest. In winter you can also

Erie in the US state of Pennsylvania is home to the Waldameer & Water World amusement and water park, the fourth oldest amusement park still in operation in the state. Since 1896, the 14-hectare site of the two parks has been all about fun. In addition

The Zoo de Servion is a small zoo with 5.5ha, but is considered the largest zoo in western Switzerland and is only 12 km north-east of Lausanne and Lake Geneva. The zoo in Servion opened in 1974 and is home to a relatively small number of around 200

Coney Island is on the one hand a peninsula and on the other a district in the south of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. And anyone who talks about Coney Island often falls into reverie in view of its history, because this is where the largest

If you travel diagonally from Stuttgart to Feuchtwangen and from Heilbronn to Ulm, you will come across the municipality of Kaisersbach in Baden-Württemberg pretty much at the centre. Around 52 kilometres north-east of Stuttgart, a summer toboggan run