When you are in Lisbon don’t miss Noobai Café. The café has a relaxed beach-style bar and even better – it has a rooftop terrace with stunning views of the Tejo-river and the statue of Christ that stands 100 meters tall on the opposite bank.

Watch the sunset from Noobai’s terrace while you enjoy a glass of port or the café’s famous watermelon juice. It doesn’t get more relaxed and romantic than this!

Noobai also serves delicious Mediterranean food.

Noobai Café, Miradouro do Adamastor

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Author David Rich Momondo

This store is probably one of Prague’s best know and it is often featured in Czech and international design magazines, and that’s with a reason. Modernista is the foremost dealer in 20th century Czech avant-garde design-classics and also acts as design consultant for hotels and restaurants. It has specialized in originals and reproductions of furniture and decorative arts in styles such as Bauhaus, Art Deco and Czech Cubism (the golden age of Czech design) as well as contemporary work by leading Czech designers. At Modernista's gallery in the heart of Prague's Old Town you will find a wide selection of items such as furniture, lightning, ceramics and toys from the first half of the 20th century as well as contemporary glass and jewelry.

Modernista, Celetná 12
www.modernista.cz

The legendary Holmenkollen ski jumping hill in Oslo is due to demolition and a new winter sports stadium with a spectacular ski jumping hill named ‘Holmenkollen lighthouse’ will be build at the same spot. Holmenkollen is one of Oslo’s most famous landmarks and more than three million tourists visit the ski arena every year.

The new Holmenkollen will have a 138 meters hill size (the current is 128 m.) and a heated terrace on the top with an amazing 360º view over Oslo, the mountains and the fjord. It will be covered with transparent plates of glass that will be lit from inside so that the ski jump’s profile is visible also at night. The profile will be further extended by giant spotlights that will throw a concentrated beam of light straight into the sky.

The ‘Holmenkollen lighthouse’ is set to be finished in 2010, a year before the World Championships in Nordic skiing which will be held in Oslo in 2011. The last competition in the old ski jump will be held in Marts 2008. It is the Danish JDS Architects who have drawn the ‘Holmenkollen lighthouse’. Their project won in competition with 103 other projects.     
 

If flying to, from or via Amsterdam, why not spend a few minutes at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol Museum, a permanent outpost of Amsterdam’s celebrated Rijksmuseum - home of Holland’s greatest art collection - located in the airport on Holland Boulevard, in the area behind the passport control between the E and F Pier.

The museum is open every day from 7:00 until 20:00 and admission is free. It houses a permanent exhibition of ten works by Dutch masters of the Golden Age from the Rijksmuseum’s collection. A temporary exhibition changes a number of times a year - for example, in honour of the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth, the Rijksmuseum presented an exhibition of works by Rembrandt’s pupils at the airport.

The Rijksmuseum is the first museum in the world to have an annex at an airport, while Schiphol is the first airport with a museum in its terminal.
The museum shop affiliated with the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol offers souvenirs specially crafted for the museum.
The Rijksmuseum is only open to passengers.
www.rijksmuseum.nl

Photo by Bernd Schönberger

Stepping into Ballhaus on Auguststrasse 24 (Mitte) is like stepping into another era. You will see a restaurant, a beer bar and candlelit tables along the walls – but first and foremost a compelling dance floor.

In between the worn-down wooden floor and the big disco ball hanging from the ceiling, there is some serious dancing going on. Some of the dancers are brilliant, while others are carefully taking their first feeble steps.

The walls are gleaming with tin foil, the air is hot and thick and people of all ages are getting up and going to the dance floor with little ladies with neat hair-dos and young students dressed in black from top to toe. The music varies at Ballhaus. According to the day of the week, cha-cha, swing, tango or dj-music is on the program. The place is enchanting and rumor has it that Tom Cruise, who just shot a movie in Berlin, has picked the dance restaurant as a location for one of his next films.

If you stay in Berlin for a while, you have the possibility of joining a dance class.