Bordeaux is known as the world capital of wine, a UNESCO World heritage Site and therefore a major tourist destination. It has a rich history going back to 300BC. Geographically, Bordeaux is near the Atlantic coast, 500km southwest of Paris, and built on a bend of the River Garonne. Geoffrey and I are not wine […]
We had allocated a week following the Paris Marathon to visit a region of France that we hadn’t explored before. We had already decided to hire a rental which we would return in Bordeaux, but a full week there would have been too long. I was keen on the coast as I’d read of many
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We’ve transited through Amsterdam a few times but never spent any real time there. With April being peak tulip season we decided to use the opportunity this time to spend a couple of days exploring some of this City of Canals’ many attractions before heading to Paris for the marathon. We had elected to stay
We were last in Zürich 10 years ago so we decided on a longer 4 day visit this time round on the way to Valencia, Spain. We booked our stay at the EMA House Hotel Suites – a 15-minute walk from the main train station. It wasn’t the ideal location though as the main shopping
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Seville was just a short 1-hour flight from Valencia and is the fourth-largest city in Spain. Its Old Town, with an area of 4 square kilometres (2 sq mi), contains a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising three buildings: the Alcázar Palace, the 16th Century Seville Cathedral and the General Archive of the Indies. The Alcázar Palace is a historic royal palace in Seville and
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Flying out of the clouds and into Zurich we were surprised at the amount of snow around. This was unexpected but made for a stunning 90-minute train journey to Basel. Basel is a city on the Rhine River in northwest Switzerland, close to the borders with France and Germany. Its medieval old town centres around
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Food is a major part of any culture but the eating experience is different in Spain. In Madrid and elsewhere in much of Spain – you first have to adapt to the later eating times for lunch and dinner which are typically a couple of hours later than what you probably are used to. Good
