… and how to avoid spending your entire Greek island holiday on a ferry boat or waiting for one in the port If you are on your way to the Cyclades, having arrived in Athens by plane and planning to continue by ferry, there is a good chance you will have some time to kill…
Athens does not do many things, but what it does, it does very, very well The great tourist attractions of the world can be divided into two groups, the foxes and the hedgehogs, representing either destinations that do many things reasonably well or destinations that do only one thing but have mastered this to the…
Urban Walks in the South of France Walk to the villa where W B Yeats died In general, I don’t believe in the theory that you can acquire an understanding of literature through a process of natural osmosis in the places where it was once written – in other words that you can replace, for…
Urban walks in the South of France A French Riviera Walk in Nice For You Tracing the footsteps of an adventurous friar, the ancient Romans and Queen Victoria Today’s post is some sort of a post-scriptum to our brief series of seasonal promenades along the Cote d’Azur: a walk that we discovered only recently, in…
Winter Walks in the South of France You Would Love French Riviera Winter Walks Nice is the French Riviera’s largest town – and also has the largest parks. Everybody who travels to the French Riviera will get to Nice sooner or later. This is not always something that happens by design. Many people only come…
Walks in the South of France With our French Riviera Winter Walks – From Monaco to a celebrated coastal spot The stroll from Monaco to the near-by Mala Beach in Cap d’Ail is the classic family beach walk on the Riviera. It may not be as rugged and spectacular as some of the others trails…
Walks in the South of France French Riviera Winter Walks A Foretaste of the Alps in Menton Today, we will begin a short series of French Riviera winter walks. There will be one walk each for the three main towns in the coastland’s eastern section: Nice, Monaco and Menton. These French Riviera winter walks resemble each other…
The Foro Italico manages to combine the ludicrous with the appalling. It is found in the north of Rome and is, in a way, the most incredible thing I have ever seen. Imagine a monument constructed by the Nazis for the glorification of Adolf Hitler and his achievements that for some reason survived WWII –…
A walk through the EUR district demonstrates that bad governments can have amazingly good taste. Rome is one of the few cities in the world that have never been entirely redone – unlike Paris and London, for example, both very old cities, too (although not quite as old as Rome) which today consist largely of…
Walking London by Mrs. Easy Hiker Rediscovering English Food on the East End Menu The ports of the East End of London have welcomed several waves of immigrants throughout their history. First, the French Protestants, then the Jews of Eastern Europe followed by the Chinese, the Italians and some Germans. In the last century, it…