Until the 1850s, Arcachon was little more than a clearing in the Landes Forest on the shores of the Bassin d’Arcachon, a shallow bay where harvesters collected oysters with rakes and hand held dredges. But…
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“Take Versailles, add Antwerp and you have Bordeaux”. Victor Hugo. After Paris, Bordeaux has the highest number of registered historical monuments of anywhere in France. It’s the world’s largest urban World Heritage site. In 2007, UNESCO…
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The market town of Lourdes in the foothills of the French Pyrenees has a population of just 15,000. But it receives over six million visitors a year, has its own international airport, and more hotel…
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As we travelled around Malta we noticed a lot of quirky street signs. Ones we doubt you’d see in other places. Here are a few. This one might have made sense if it had been…
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Valletta is the southernmost capital city in Europe and, at just 0.61 square kms, the smallest in the European Union. It’s also officially Europe’s sunniest capital. Pope Clement VII and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor…
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