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Our trip to Bordeaux was well planned in every respect, except one: We flew instead of catching the train and this meant we couldn’t buy wine to take home. It was April 2007 and we were living in London. The airlines had recently imposed the ban on carrying liquids on board the flight. As we [...]
Hiking the Tour de Mont Blanc around the Chamonix valley in the French, Italian and Swiss Alps. This is a guest post by Heather Cowper, from Heather on her Travels. Heather is based in Bristol, in the west of England and travels mainly in Europe. You can read more about Heather’s walk on the Tour de Mont [...]
Happy new year! I am delighted to be hosting the Carnival of Cities this week. What a great round-up of interesting posts about cities around the world. To all the participating bloggers, thank you and don’t forget to promote this post! Please note, the Carnival of Cities is a blog carnival for posts about any [...]
Today brings another bumper collection of links to great travel content on the web. I hope you enjoy it – let me know in the comments. If I link to you below, please pay it forward and give link love to someone else. Debates, trends & reflections Island caretaker. I was less than complimentary in [...]
Bordeaux, France; Easter, 2007 The picture shows a modern tram gliding by Bordeaux’s 18th century Palais de la Bourse – or the Palace of the Stock Exchange. The image is reflected in the water mirror on the embankment of the Garonne River – the largest water mirror in the world. One of the things that [...]
Bordeaux, France; Easter 2007 This pigeon perched on a gargoyle high above Bordeaux looks like it is standing sentry over the city. This was taken from the top of the Tour Pey-Berland, the freestanding bell tower by the cathedral. This is posted for Photo Friday, organised by Debbie at DeliciousBaby. Tweet
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