by Radu Polizu | Jul 3, 2011 | Blog, Switzerland
The breakfast was very simple, low-key, but good. However, it was far from the expected German fruhstuck. Much closer to the Italian “continental breakfast” of coffee, butter, and jam. One thing that we noticed is that the room rate was higher if booked from the hotel...
by Radu Polizu | Jul 3, 2011 | Blog, Switzerland
Swiss efficiency welcomed us in Zurich. In 1 hour, we cleared the customs, picked up the car from Hertz, and we were already driving toward Luzern. The only unpleasant surprise was that our GPS that did not cooperate and we could not use it but otherwise, the luggage...
by Radu Polizu | Apr 27, 2011 | Blog, USA
New Mexico is an absolutely amazing place. We shot in the Santa Fe, Indian Villages, Bandelier, Chaco Canyon and Pueblo Bonito, etc. We returned to Antelope Canyon and shot in the Upper Canyon but the experience was marred by the large number of visitors, The...
by Radu Polizu | Apr 12, 2011 | Blog, News, USA
Shooting session in Las Vegas for the promo and opening of the MTV show “Real World Las Vegas Reunion”. The package was put together by Artifactuality.com. Follow us on...
by Radu Polizu | Nov 26, 2010 | Blog, News
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gm9q8uabTs&feature=player_embedded] Finally, a politician that is not afraid to challenge the shaky European establishment and to say that “The emperor has no clothes” Follow us on...
by Radu Polizu | Oct 1, 2010 | Blog, News
We started to work on redesigning the website. It is for long time due but did not have to much time to concentrate on it. Since we launched FlyingMonk in 2000 many things changed in the web design. We started at the time with maybe a hundred images and one video and...
by Radu Polizu | Sep 5, 2010 | Blog, USA
In the middle of the 18th century, around 1750, a Spanish galleon transporting small horses commissioned for work in the mines of Peru shipwrecked on the coast of Virginia, on the shores of a small island inhabited by local Indian tribes. Several years latter, in...
by Radu Polizu | Jul 21, 2010 | Blog, Scandinavia
With the easiness of English language spoken by absolutely everybody, I think that they study it since kindergarten, and the pleasant atmosphere offered by the locals, Scandinavia makes a great destination. Any person that loves nature would find Norway magic. The...
by Radu Polizu | Jul 15, 2010 | Blog, Denmark, Germany, Scandinavia
The flight was departing to Frankfurt at 10 am, so we walked up at 6:30, packed and left to the train station, 10 minutes walk away from the hotel. We did not board the train before we stopped for a to-go breakfast at Andersen Bakery in Tivoli that had great cakes but...
by Radu Polizu | Jul 14, 2010 | Blog, Denmark, Scandinavia
In the morning the rain was not over and we started our last 100 km drive to Copenhagen on wet roads. Before we left we booked hotel on the Internet and when we drove into the city it happened that we drove right past the hotel near the train station. At $114/night...
by Radu Polizu | Jul 13, 2010 | Blog, Denmark, Scandinavia
After a good sleep and a delicious breakfast we pursued the drive that we stopped last night on good highways for less than 3 hours through Helsingborg and Helsinger and we crossed the causeway/bridge/tunnel to Denmark ($40-45). From there we started to drive another...
by Radu Polizu | Jul 12, 2010 | Blog, Scandinavia, Sweden
Great day to walk in Stockholm. Sunny and a little too warm but it is in the North and is bearable. Walked from the hotel Alexandra to Gamla Stan in 15 minutes and right away bought some hop-on hop-off boat tickets to be used all day ($15) that shorten the distances....
