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Walking in Paris – Part 3 The Small Outdoors in Paris Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes Today, for the final part of our short series on Parisian parks*, where you can discover the small outdoors in Paris, I am going to take you a little bit further out. So far out in fact that…
A Totally Different Christmas Market What would Christmas be without Christmas markets? These fairs with their arts and crafts stalls, handmade candles, sticky candies and mulled wine have become such an integral part of the Western Christmas experience that we tend to forget how pagan they actually are – as pagan as, well, a Christmas…
Guest Post: Hiking in Romania by David Elliott Romania is the ideal country for great hiking trips, with a range of different landscapes from the soaring horseshoe of the Carpathian Mountains to vast plains and river valleys, not to mention some of the most stunning medieval castles on the planet. Like the other countries of…
Walking in Paris – Part 2 For part two of our post on about walking in Paris in its parks, we take you a little further out of the city centre. Parc des Buttes Chaumont Where? In the northeast of the city, a couple of blocks away from the Canal de la Villette. How to…
Walking in Paris – Part 1 Parisian Parks to Choose From Keep it short, keep it urban: that was the general advice I gave you a few posts ago for walks and hikes during the cold season. Walking in Parisian parks would do the trick! For many people, of course, that is the motto for…
Coastal Hikes in Spain A Fishing Village along the Cami de Ronda Cannes, Portofino, Benidorm – nearly all of the famous Mediterranean beach resorts, whether classy or downmarket, were once humble fishing villages. In some parts of the Mediterranean, there is nothing that could remind the visitor of this tradition – in others, there may…
Walking in Germany An Autumn Walk in Muenster Going out for a longer walk or a hike at this time of year can be a bit of a problem. Once you have taken into account that you sleep a little bit longer (because staying in a warm bed can be pretty tempting when it’s still dark outside), that…
To Market in Seville Tell me how you shop and I tell you who you are. If you come from a country north of the Great Cultural Shopping Divide (i.e. a country where most shopping is done in supermarkets), you have probably felt the urge to experience a “native” street market on a visit to…
Urban Walking in Seville For walking Seville, we chose a route on the banks of the Guadalquivir river, from the town centre to the iconic Alamillo Bridge and across into neighbouring Alamillo Park. The walk starts at San Telmo Bridge, near San Telmo Palace in the heart of the Old Town. Walk down to the…
We were Smitten by Seville We were in Seville for the MyVuelingCity Game, where the Barcelona-based budget airline Vueling sends travel bloggers on exchange trips, shipping off Spanish bloggers to enjoy some of the European destinations on its ever growing list of destinations and giving people like us the opportunity to spend a weekend in…