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This trip was different. Our first real sightseeing travel without kids since several years! Just a few days but soooo much different. No car on our own, no big luggage, no toys. A real city break for adults, like in the good old times 😀 The plan was to book a flight, find a cosy...
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Ever heard of Saint Lucia? It’s likely you haven’t. Saint Lucia is a small island in the Caribbean which has not been discovered by mass tourism yet. Worth planning your trip there before the crowds arrive. This charming island (roughly the size of Singapore) has been seen as a prize of both the French and...
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Palais Chantilly palace
Your dream holiday to France has finally arrived, you want to see all the places you have on your bucket list and have great pics to impress your friends. You come to the places you always heard about and discover that several hundred people have had the same idea and instead of enjoying great architecture...
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wales castle raglan castell
Once upon a time there stood a proud castle showing the prestige of one of the most powerful families of Britain. The most luxurious and sumptuous palace in Wales. It was called Raglan castle. It belonged to two families loyal to the British monarch from generation to generation. And yet it had to pay the...
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Abbaye de Montmajour
I must admit that I particularly enjoy visiting places like Abbaye de Montmajour. Presenting an imposing architectural ensemble, built from local stone, calm and uncrowded. Like many other great abbeys we have seen, it has a unique atmosphere and genius loci, deriving from the fact that it used to be a place of solitude, work...
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The first places you visit during each trip are always special, and they seem to be even more special in England. It is due to the fact that the ferry crossing is a kind of limes between Continental Europe and Britain, where everything is slightly different. This time when opening the door of the car,...
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Le palais ideal Ideal palace
Once upon a time (precisely in the second half of the 19th century) in the middle of nowhere in south-east France lived a village postman. One day when he was distributing his letters he stumbled upon a stone. He took it in his hand and looked at it for a long while.
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Have you ever had in mind an iconic English town? Well, that’s Stamford. Elegant yet cosy houses, warm colour of the stone, children in school uniforms going home after classes, exquisite shops along the main street…
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