France’s oldest wine route is a 170km stretch from Marlenheim east of Strasbourg south to Thann, through the foothills of the Vosges Mountains and along the Rhine plain. Along the way are dozens of picture…
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In the autumn of 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson was holed up in Le Monastier-sur-Gazielle nursing a wounded heart. He’d had a relationship with an American woman who’d left her husband due to his infidelities and…
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We headed to Lyon to meet up with a friend from our previous travels for 3 nights of gastronomic wonders followed by a long walk in the countryside (see next post for details of that…
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We spent six nights in Dinan. It’s a Middle Ages town and apart from a new kitchen and bathroom, we think our apartment hadn’t changed much since then. It was all ancient creaky floorboards, exposed…
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We had planned to visit Mont Saint-Michel on our way from Caen to Dinan but the host for our digs in Dinan was horrified. Visiting the most visited site in France after the Eiffel Tower…
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