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…
Themed Walks in London Let’s Continue Walking London with Charles Dickens For part 2 of our themed walk, we continue walking London with Charles Dickens to find where he spent the most traumatic years of his life. We start at Southwark tube station, walking straight into Union Street before turning right into Great Suffolk Street…
Themed London Walks Walking London with Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was the greatest urban walker of all times. By which I mean to say that he was not only the most famous, that goes almost without saying, but also second-to-none in terms of proficiency and stamina. He roamed through the streets of London for four…
Roman Holidays From Ostia Antica to Lido di Ostia Ostia was, and up to a point still is, Rome’s connection with the Mediterranean. Ostia is the Latin word for mouth, and this is what the ancient Romans called the place where the river Tiber met the sea. Due to silting, however, this place has moved…
Roman Holidays: Walking Down the Road to Rome All roads lead to Rome. But this is not to say that it does not matter which one of these roads you are going to take. Clearly, there is one road to Rome which is more deeply woven into the city’s historical fabric than the others, more famous and…