Leaving Azerbaijan, we were looking for somewhere warm in Europe as the year tracked steadily through autumn. We had decided on Malta but was there somewhere closer for a quick hike beforehand? A random travel…
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From Vilnius we flew to Munich where Oktoberfest was in full swing. It’s been held at Theresienwiese in central Munich for 187 consecutive years, barring a two year hiatus in 2020/21 due to COVID. For…
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We only had one full day in Vancouver. We walked the path around the perimeter of Stanley Park, Vancouver’s famous 405 hectare park on the Burrard Inlet. We wandered the waterfront promenade. Watched the mounted…
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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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“If there is one portion of Europe which was made by the sea more than another, Portugal is that slice, that portion, that belt. Portugal was made by the Atlantic”. (Hilaire Belloc, Places, 1942)…
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