Words are inadequate to describe the events that took place at Auschwitz and Birkenau during World War II. Being there is probably the only way
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Up at the Kraków of Dawn
Another day, another country. I may have got back home after the grand Motorhome adventure, but after only 36 hours at home, I’m up at
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To France, Au Revoir, To England, It’s Good to be Back
Dover Castle welcomes me back to British shores, after a slightly stirring crossing. Another half an hour of that and I’d have been sicker than
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Le Touquet-Paris-Plage and the Côte d’Opale
After the war of attrition that was the Somme Battlefields I needed to do some housekeeping, notably to find LPG, diesel and fresh water, all
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The Battle of the Somme, WWI 1914-1918
Today’s sightseeing tour was to be a sombre affair, a wander through the battlefields and memorials of the Somme, the infamous setting for the bloodiest
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Lost in Translation, Beauvais’ Interesting Shopping
I spent a little time wandering around the shops in Beauvais, partly an excuse to get out of the wind and rain. Nothing really took
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Cathédral Saint Pierre, Beauvais
To break up an alternately windy and showery day I stopped off at Beauvais, a town about 80kms north of Paris. According to my guide
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Château of Chambord, Loire Valley
Today was Chambord’s turn to continue the tour of the châteaux of the Loire Valley. As I was in Blois I took a quick walk
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The Château of Chenonceau, Loire Valley
Second stop of the day was the Château of Chenonceau, in the Loire Valley but built across the River Cher which flows parallel only a
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The Château and Gardens of Villandry, Loire Valley
A perfectly restful nights sleep and waking to a cold and misty morning. The run of perfect weather since November now looks to have come
