Great Brittany
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Great Brittany

A few years ago, French hikers were asked to name their favourite hiking trail in the country, and it was the great Brittany stretch of the nationwide coastal path that received the largest number of votes. I don’t know whether this vote was a one-off or whether it is conducted every year or so, and…

Downtown Lisbon: Monuments and Wind-Swept Melancholy
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Downtown Lisbon: Monuments and Wind-Swept Melancholy

Uptown and downtown Lisbon are two different worlds, and your strategy of experiencing the two unequal halves of the Portuguese capital should reflect this. For your uptown walk on the slopes of the city we suggested last week, you should pick a starting point and an end point on opposite ends of the old town…

The Odd One Out of Rome’s Seven Hills
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The Odd One Out of Rome’s Seven Hills

We began our brief series of Roman walks where the city’s history began: on its legendary “seven hills”. Today, we will finish there as well, returning to the starting point of our journey but focusing on what has  always been the odd one out of Rome’s seven hills The Aventino on the Eternal City’s southern…