The tiny city-island of Saint-Louis is lapped on either side by the waters of the Senegal River © Antpun, Dreamstime History feels close enough to touch in Saint-Louis, its architecture steeped in 19th-century grandeur. Dripping with balconies and bougainvillea, the stately ochre homes and warehouses of old Saint-Louis, with their toothless wooden shutters and Marseillaise clay…
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Visit unique museums housing quirky collections and experience equally eccentric customs, from the World Worm-Charming Championships at Willaston to fig-pie rolling at Wybunbury. Whether you’re here for a day, a weekend break or an entire holiday, Cheshire will confound your expectations. Most who come here expect a landscape that is flat, rural and landlocked, and are…
Start with a straight road that runs for 320km. Put all the hills on one side and the flatlands on the other. Sprinkle the whole thing liberally with red bricks, (former) Communists and tortellini, and you couldn’t get anything else but Emilia-Romagna. Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls, authors of Italy: Emilia-Romagna Italy is so full…
Lying between the major cities of Nantes and La Rochelle, the Vendée is tucked cosily into the top of the Bay of Biscay, just south of Brittany. Admittedly, unless you are heading specifically to it, you are unlikely to pass through. But that would be a pity. Angela Bird and Murray Stewart, authors of The Vendée and surrounding area:…
The sights, sounds and flavours of the Outer Hebrides are reason alone to travel to these islands. Yet, along with photographs, you are likely to take away memories of the people you meet – warm, generous and with a keen sense of their culture and identity. Mark Rowe , author of Outer Hebrides Right up…
Two hundred species of fish have been recorded south of the Antarctic Convergence. Many of them, especially those of the coastal waters, are endemic to the region, occurring nowhere else and adapted to the extreme conditions. They tend to be slow-growing. Five families in the order Notothenioidea make up 75% of the Antarctic fish fauna,…
For us, the Chilterns means travelling along sunken lanes with dappled sunlight peeking through green tunnels of trees, marvelling at the magic carpets of bluebells which appear in the woods in the spring, followed by orchids on chalk grasslands in the summer. Helen and Neil Matthews, authors of Slow Travel Chilterns & the Thames Valley:…
Much of Orkney’s appeal is ancient and obvious; but just as much is timeless and will only slowly reveal itself. Mark Rowe, author of Orkney: the Bradt Guide Located eight miles to the north of the Scotland mainland, Orkney everything a visitor could wish for in a holiday. This archipelago of 70 islands (19 inhabited)…
In the furthest corner of northeast Italy lies one of the country’s best-kept secrets – Friuli Venezia Giulia, a travel destination where you can enjoy some of the best Italy has to offer without the crowds and the hassles. Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls, authors of Italy: Friuli Venezia Giulia: the Bradt Guide There’s a…
Northern Greece is in many ways a world apart. Those who already know Athens and southern Greece could look at it as the Hellenic version of Scotland, very familiar yet different, a land of astonishing natural beauty. Dana Facaros, author of Northern Greece: the Bradt Guide Northern Greece is a destination of remarkable natural beauty,…
In a small area it seemed to contain everything I liked best about rural England: dramatic coastal scenery, lovely villages advertising cream teas, little churches full of ancient village art – and Exmoor ponies. Hilary Bradt, author of Slow Travel Exmoor ‘We came to the great River Exe … which rises in the hills on…
One bright morning in early autumn I set out to walk across the Chiltern Hills, following in the footsteps of the author Robert Louis Stevenson. It was almost 150 years since he had crossed these same hills, arriving in High Wycombe by train and stopping overnight at Great Missenden and Wendover before reaching Tring three…
Four years ago, my wife and I became parents. To twins. Double whammy. Yes, yes, I know the pleasures of parenthood can’t be overstated, the joy unconfined and so on and so forth. But nor can the whammy-ness. Parenthood demands an overnight re-adjustment in your relationships towards almost everything, from sleep to work to socialising.…
Northern ChilternsCentral Chilterns: Wendover to JordansCentral Chilterns: Stoke Poges to HambledenAlong the Thames: Runnymede to MarlowSouth Oxfordshire & East BerkshireVale of Aylesbury The accommodation recommended below is a snapshot of places to stay in the Chilterns, the Thames Valley and Aylesbury Vale. It’s a personal selection – places with some distinctive characteristic, whether that relates…
There’s plenty to admire here, as the town has a long and interesting history. Squeezed into the crease between two hillsides, within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, this straggly but well-kept town once claimed to have the longest High Street in England. This has now been modified to the longest street party in England,…