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Christmas in Metz

22/01/2020 Written by Helen

We first discovered the beautiful medieval city of Metz, two years ago, on our first road trip from Istria to England, for Christmas. Positioned where it is, in north eastern France, it was a good place to stop and break up the journey to Calais. We’ve stayed a few times since – and although there […]

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Brondo Architect Hotel, Palma

27/05/2019 Written by Helen
Brondo Architect Hotel, Palma

Over the last few years, we’ve been very lucky to be able to pack in a huge amount of travel – as well as actually move abroad, relocating from Manchester to Istria, in northern Croatia. We’ve spent the last couple of years renovating a stone house and exploring our new environment. But, one place has […]

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Retail Therapy in Marrakech

20/03/2019 Written by Helen
Souk Shopping : Marrakech

Marrakech is up there as one of the craziest, loudest, most colourful, chaotic, beautiful, exhausting and intriguing cities we’ve ever visited. Hot and dusty (even in January when we’ve visited), it’s somewhere that we only do for a couple of days before escaping to the calmness of the coast, and the gorgeous Essaouira. You can […]

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Hotel Grand Wiesler, Graz

19/03/2019 Written by Helen
Hotel Grand Wiesler, Graz

Sometimes, you see somewhere online and you just have to go. No matter what. This happened recently when I discovered the website for the Hotel Grand Wiesler, in Graz, in the Styria region of southern Austria. When we lived in Manchester, the thought of seeing a hotel online, in another country, and planning a spontaneous […]

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The Backstreets of Bergamo

15/03/2019 Written by Helen
Festival time : Piazza Vecchia, Citta Alta, Bergamo

Bergamo, located west of Milan, in the region of Lombardy, is beautiful. Often overlooked for the more glitzy (and possibly more brash) Milan, it has everything. There is the lower, more modern town (Citta Bassa) – although, as well as your retail therapy kicks, you can still soak up the history of the town. Wide […]

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Salò, Lombardy

31/07/2018 Written by Helen
Salò, Lombardy

When we visited Brescia, not too long ago, we decided to visit the town of Salò, located on the western banks of Lake Garda. I’d seen Salò on Francesco da Mosto’s “Italy : Top to Toe” and was fascinated by it. As we were so close, it seemed a wasted opportunity not to visit the […]

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The Cote d’Azur

15/01/2018 Written by Helen
The Cote d’Azur

So, after a spending a night in two different hotels – yes, seriously, the story is here – we left Carcassonne and headed south, this time to the Cote d’Azur. A road trip along this glitzy coastline seemed just too tempting, especially as we had booked a night in Nice. The countryside, travelling south, is […]

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Troyes to Calais

02/12/2017 Written by Helen
Troyes to Calais

Troyes is a town in the Grand Est region of northeastern France. Its medieval old town features narrow, cobbled streets lined with colorful, half-timbered houses, mostly dating from the 16th century. The town is home to several Gothic churches with striking stained-glass windows. These include the Troyes Cathedral, the Église Sainte-Madeleine and the Basilique Saint-Urbain. […]

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Zrenj to Chamonix

28/11/2017 Written by Helen
Zrenj to Chamonix

We were up with the larks this morning – no mean feat as our builder popped by late last night to discuss some new ideas (wine & beer were involved) – and packing the car as we’ve never packed before. We’re not instinctively organised travellers. We can arrive on a beach with not a flip […]

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Bale – A Hidden Gem

16/10/2017 Written by Helen
Bale – A Hidden Gem

…maybe not so hidden, because Bale (or Valle) is well sign-posted on the main road to Pula, but until this weekend, we’d not actually visited it, despite forever saying that we must. So, after spotting a great deal at Hotel La Grisa, we decided to go for it and do the Gourmet Package for €138 […]

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Beautiful Bergamo…

11/10/2017 Written by Helen
Beautiful Bergamo…

We’ve made no secret of our love of Bergamo, a stunning walled medieval town (with a more modern lower town) in Lomabrdy, usually over shadowed by Milan. Which for us is good, because it means we can hopefully keep it as our little secret a bit longer. However, we don’t feel it’ll be a secret […]

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The Leonessa d’Italia

04/10/2017 Written by Helen
The Leonessa d’Italia

We visited Brescia a few years ago and to be honest, it didn’t leave much of a lasting impression. To be fair, we were only there to change trains and as our next destination was the stunning Verona, it had some big competition. We only really saw the area around the main train station and […]

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