Moustiers-Ste-Marie is a village in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in southern France. It was once a major pottery center and now serves as a gateway to the Gorges du Verdon, sometimes called the “European Grand Canyon”. You can explore Moustiers and surroundings comfortably on foot, but it is good to have a car if you want to…
Corfe Castle is a village in Dorset and the site of a ruined castle of the same name. The castle, built by William the Conqueror, dates to the 11th century and commands a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage. The village and castle stand over a gap in the…
Bora Bora is a volcanic island in the Society Islands archipelago of French Polynesia. The Polynesian island in the South Pacific is ranked at the top of the list when it comes to most remarkably beautiful in the world. The best time to visit is May. Understand It is perfectly possible to spoil yourself in…
Saariselkä is a largish winter sports centre in the municipality of Inari high up in Finnish Lapland, some 250 km north of the Arctic Circle and nearly 1000 km away from the southern capital Helsinki. The Saariselkä village. Nestled in a valley, Saariselkä is a compact strip of a village with one gas station, one main supermarket, one liquor…
Perth and Kinross (Scottish Gaelic: Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is a council area in the northeast of Scotland. It straddles the divide between lowlands and highlands, as the hills suddenly rear up from the broad valleys, and in 2019 it had a population of 151,290. Towns and villages The Lowlands Perth is the only city.…
Jersey is the largest and southernmost of the Channel Islands. It’s a self-governing dependency of the British Crown, but not part of the United Kingdom. It lies 14 mi (23 km) west of the Cherbourg peninsula of France in the Bay of St Malo, rather than in the Channel proper. With a resident population of just under 100,000, Jersey…
Booking accommodation (including hostels and campsites) entitles you to a Carte d’Hote which allows free travel on trains and buses between Servoz and Vallorcine. Skiers with lift passes likewise travel for free. Otherwise, you can buy a Carte d’Hote for €10 from Chamonix Town Hall or Tourist Office, or buy a day ticket on the…
Martinique is a Caribbean island that is an overseas department of France in the Caribbean Sea, north of St. Lucia and south of Dominica. The island is dominated by Mount Pelee, which on 8 May 1902 erupted and completely destroyed the city of Saint Pierre, killing 30,000 inhabitants. In the south of the island, there…
Dubrovnik is an old city on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist resorts of the Mediterranean, a seaport and the centre of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County. Its population is about 43,000 in 2011. Dubrovnik is nicknamed “Pearl of the Adriatic” and is listed as a UNESCO World…
Moritzburg is a small town near Dresden in Germany. The town is famous for the old hunting castle of the Saxon kings. Beautifully restored from the in- and outside it is host to a collection of historic horse carriages. In East Germany and the Czech Republic it is also well known as the site where…
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