Category: Europe

Romantic holidays: a night in a lighthouse

Romantic holidays: a night in a lighthouse
Spend a night in a lighthouse was one of our longstanding dreams, that we finally realized to celebrate our 5th anniversary. Although in the UK there is plenty of choice when it comes to lighthouses, we did not have a moment of hesitation: the trip we did last year to the Seven Sisters and Beachy…
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Trip to Mont-Saint-Michel, marvel of Normandy

Trip to Mont-Saint-Michel, marvel of Normandy
Mont-Saint-Michel is a stunning place protected by the spell of the tides that, for more than a thousand years, made it unreachable for many hours a day. Built on a small rocky island at just 600 meters from the French coast, the monastery dedicated to the Archangel Michael was in fact historically reachable by land…
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Trip to Brittany: the amazing Saint-Malo

Trip to Brittany: the amazing Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo is a French fortified town of outstanding beauty, the most important port of northern Brittany and one of the many unforgettable spot of this windy coast famous for its tides. If Saint-Malo is still an ideal destination for those who love the romantic and tormented beaches made of sand and irregular stones, once upon…
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Hay-on-Wye: the Book Town you must visit once in a lifetime

Hay-on-Wye: the Book Town you must visit once in a lifetime
On the border between Wales and England there is a small town surrounded by cosy hills that is famous for becoming a role model against the rural flight that followed the Second World War. Here, as in many other parts of Europe, people left the countryside and moved to urban areas in search of a…
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